Adam Lindsay

Musical Timbre and... systems admin?

Numerous sounds of failing drives:
 http://datacent.com/hard_drive_sounds.php

Pinch media

If you're harbouring thoughts of being an iPhone developer for free applications, the amount of work done behind "Pinch Advertising" looks interesting:
http://www.pinchmedia.com/developers/

Gender analyser

http://www.genderanalyzer.com/
More NLP, this time to see whether a male or female has written the text. Cute!

Republicans try to use Oxford don to smear Barack Obama

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5063279.ece

pictures for sad children

http://www.picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php?comicID=196

The Starbucks-Walmart ratio

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2008/03/starbuckswalmar.html

I only just came across the Starbucks-Walmart ratio as an indicator of a state's political leanings today.

Actually, eyeballing the scatterplot (from http://legion.matinic.us/2008/03/06/starbucks-states/), I'd say that the number of Walmarts per capita probably has a better correlation with the 2004 election than any ratio.

NASDAQ Vocal index

"Talking Points" Caribou Barbie

I just had to save this somewhere. Here seemed the quickest.

NLP can be used for evil, too

http://twitterispenis.com/

"We hijack innocent tweets, subject them to our patent pending penisization process by replacing certain words with 'penis', and republish it for your entertainment. We find it funny."

All you need to know about Can

I've been working with The Echo Nest's Remix libraries, and have extended them in some ways important to me. I came up with a remixer that extracts beats that begin on the tonic. The key is really in two lines of code:

segs = segments.that(have_pitch_max(tonic)).that(overlap_starts_of(beats))
outchunks = beats.that(overlap_ends_of(segs))

I put a random bit of Can in there, and, well, it still sounds like Can.

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