Madness Factor

Have you had enough of your cats trying to monopolize your computer? Are they surfing the internet when you’re not looking, even though you told them not to? Are they writing bad poetry behind your back? Well, check out this post at Mental Floss, where you’ll find the solution.

We were out last night, and one of our friends was telling us he heard the TSA is going to start doing full-body X-rays of passengers. I thought maybe he got it wrong. After a little googling, I come to find out he’s dead right. Yikes. The TSA is going to start a trial run [...]

This pic is probably going to be featured on a slew of blogs soon, but I couldn’t resist. I saw it over at Mental Floss, which was tipped off by Happy Scrappy….

Maybe I was living under a rock when this thing debuted last year, but this is the first I’ve heard of the Buddha Machine, a small playback device that generates ambient loops for your listening — or ignoring — pleasure. Developed by China-based electronic artists FM3, the unit plays one of nine selected loops over [...]

Over at Create Digital Music, there’s a post about sound designer Johnny Random, who was hired by an ad agency to record a holiday composition of his choice for their bicycle company client. The catch? Instead of traditional instruments (or even virtual instruments), he was asked to use sounds made by bicycle parts. He chose [...]