A new app by Smule lets you blow into the iPhone mic to play an Ocarina, with chording of notes with your fingers like a real ocarina. The don’t-you-dare-play-it-in-guitar-stores promo video is excellent.

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.” -Buddha Recently saw a post about Rational Triggers for the Emotoself: I use short phrases to combat stagnation and anxiety. The problem is that inspirational phrases too often have short shelf lives. “Celebrate Life” seemed to have an impact on me one night …

Technically, Double Dribble was the first NES game to use digitzed voice. It wasn’t Ramones-cool like this one though.

I like ambient information devices–particularly ones that give you information at a glance in a clever way.  If you’re stuck inside on a Windows machine, check out Kaze to Desktop.  Kaze–’wind’ in English–moves your windows around based on the speed of the wind at your location. Also, take a look at Drop Clock from the …

Oh man, I really like the new visualizer for iTunes.  It’s like a black hole disco ball. It’s based on a beta from last year from the Barbarian Group–the clever folks who also made wacky things like the Subservient Chicken. For those new to Magnetosphere, a quick tip–you can change a lot of the visualization …

The Adventures of Mark Twain–a 1985 claymation film by Will Vinton of California Raisins fame–has an alien nightclub sequence in which the following appeared (yes, the alien wearing the shirt has 4 boobs and 3 heads).  I took a photograph of the DVD– The t-shirt junkie in me had to make a reasonable facsimile on …