Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

Spotted in sclerotic_rings, a trilobite-sized follow-up to yesterday's Cambrian diet news: Trilobite cookies.

Nice...

(Oh, and sclerotic_rings is well worth a regular read if you're interested in prehistoric and scientific oddments.)

I've turned my image of Chihuly's glass ceiling at the Bellagio into an LJ icon. Not sure what I'll use it for, but I like it!

The quote is courtesy of marypcb.

Inquiring minds want to know why Steve Ballmer (or at least a convincing doppelganger thereof) is doing up flats in Putney...

Is "ocadoed" a verb like "googled"?

...as we now have the wonder-widget that is the Hamster Composer?

" I also aimed to make something novel that had never been done before. But to balance out the unusual nature of its design, I wanted to also to create something that was very musical.After much consideration of different technical design aspects and contemplating various musical ideas, I was able to arrive at a project that would fulfill all of my musical and engineering goals.An intelligent MIDI sequencer was designed with hamster control. The MIDI sequencer intelligently produced melodies by manipulating the musical elements of rhythm and note-choice. Guided by inputs based on hamster movements, Markov chains were used to perform such beat and note computations."

[link originally gacked from Boing Boing]

[Update: I wonder why I am delivering a surfeit of rodent-related links at the moment?]

[Further update: Budley WINOLJ points out that this has to be Bagpuss' Marvelous Mouse Organ]