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.

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 […]

A loooong time ago I wrote about Robert Fripp doing the sounds for Windows Vista. Well now you can hear those compositions juxtaposed with the sounds of Windows XP. I dunno—they sound a little new-agey to me. But maybe those subtle tinklings are less annoying than the XP repertoire when heard over and over again. […]

A post on slashdot pointed me to this article in the UK newspaper, The Independent, that details the beginnings of a revolt by users of MySpace against media mogul/MySpace owner Rupert Murdoch. All I can say is, it’s about time. I knew that as a musician, I should probably jump on the MySpace bandwagon, but […]

Being a big King Crimson fan, I was surprised to read on slashdot that Robert Fripp was recently on the Microsoft campus recording some soundscapes for the company’s upcoming OS, Vista. If you’re familiar with Fripp’s discography, I recommend you peruse the comments below the post —some of them are laugh-out-loud funny.
Here’s one I particularly […]