Wow @Barnaby Walters Thank you! Great tip! Making me think I may want to get a BIT more researchy...wouldn't have done any of that and can see why I need to...

@zach I drew up some plans based on a variety of sources (my instrument, some helpful makers) and got a maker to have a look over it.

@brendan sounds great! With something like that (long-ish neck and lots of strings) the trick will be to make it not fall apart and play well at the same time :) If you plane the fingerboard straight whilst the neck is under artificial tension (clamp body and put wedge under headstock), it'll help prevent the strings pulling it into a serious bow when everything's tensioned up. Let me know if you need any tips+tricks…

Yeah a lot like that! Except mine will most likely suck? I'm just going at it. * sort of a reversed coffin shaped body *Longer neck (b=about the same length as a baritone gtr) *8 strings (like mando, tuned in 5ths) *Humbucker and Mic options * Tremelo System (unless it screws everything too much) *Possible fretless (I play Violin) but prolly fretted.

Basically I have no idea what I am doing. Will either be genius or garbage.

For me, the most important with FF is that I can use the extensions I need: Adblock Plus, Firebug, Rikaichan, Ghostery and, yes, even Social Fixer (aka "Better Facebook"). Performance on OS X is more than decent, so I've feel no need to turn to Safari or Chrome...

Thanks :) I've always loved Peter Firmin's illustrations, and like to think my style pays small homage to them. Noggin the Nog and the other smallfilms are way better than the crap that I would have had to put up with as a child if my parents weren't oldskool!

This reminds me of the pie full o' blackbirds in Noggin The Nog.

Yes, I have considered that there may be more than three. As for why… All I can say is that it's nothing to do with regurgitated fish :)

Well, thats why FF rocks.

Probably a visitor running off a VM testbed.

@Damien I was told the same thing.

well, yes, to me as well! But not on the post I linked to, to me at least. Weird. Some kind of edge case.

actually "server" IS recognized as a tag (only to me?)

What makes me laught (cynicaly) is that there is nothing behind him...

I was taught IPDE, identify, predict, determine, execute. identify other cars on the road, predict what they will do, determine what you need to do in response, and execute when necessary.

Thank you.

Hm. It strikes me as interesting that planning is something that I've trained more or less to get rid of in martial arts. Conscious mind ("narrator mind" in house parlance) honestly isn't much good at complex reactions at speed.

Cheers, I meant the border images (using an image to define a custom border) but that's a useful tool.

hey, great insturments, respect for your work! I always don't know whether the corners are too rounded or not but luckily this is not part of my job ;) Anyway, in case you haven't used it here you can quickly test the corners looks: http://border-radius.com/

As far as I can determine, there isn't any documentation for the API, because it’s all alpha at this stage. Basically the person who wanted to do cubbi.es got enough of an API to do that and that's it.

More worryingly, the API doesn’t interact with the federation at all, so that apps are centralised and not federated (unless they do their own federation). If centralised apps become the norm and end up including some important functionality (and the devs do want to keep the core lean), it could substantially undermine the whole point of diaspora. Not sure what I can do to improve that, though.

Close! It's an impedance matcher for plugging electric instruments and microphones into iOS devices.

I'll guess it's got some resistors, capacitors, and inductors in it and introduces electrical impedance into the circuit.