1. Installed Opera for testing and it somehow set itself as my default browser without asking. Anyone know how it manages this somewhat shady settings change? Mac OS 10.9

  2. Looking through archives, I realise the real reason I stopped doing animation was after coming up with “The Spaghetti Entanglement”, I realised that nothing I ever made would be worthy of that name.

  3. Aaaah I only just realised the Eurovision final was tonight. Now, should I find a friend to watch it with, or try to figure out how my TV works?

  4. solarference: @BarnabyWalters awesome! have fun reverse-engineering Three Sisters - happy to give hints if you need them :) -n

    @solarference thanks :) Right now I’m most curious about the lyrics — are they from a source, or arranged? I can find many songs with similar structures or names, but none quite the same as yours.

  5. solarference: @BarnabyWalters which effect was it Barnaby? Saw your patch but couldn't work it out... -n #puredata

    @solarference beat slicing sampler, divides the recording up into n chunks and plays them back randomly. There were some bugs in the version I screenshotted (e.g. mistaking sample number for millisecond delay) which are now fixed. I’m currently working on reproducing as much of The Three Sisters as I can figure out from the recording.

  6. deray mckesson: The biker gangs have put out a call for retaliation on the police, who killed some of their members. And still no State of Emergency. Waco.

    Reading @deray’s tweets about biker violence in Waco and how it’s being reported, it took me a while to realise that “Waco” is a place, and not a denouncement of these events as “wacko”. Totally applies, esp. to the way the media is reacting :/

  7. Just realised that increasing the dimensions of an element onscreen when it is hovered over creates a “natural”, visual schmitt trigger effect.

  8. Roopa Gulati: Things I learnt last night: the dial on toasters has nowt to do with temperature. It's just a timer. I need to get out more.

    @roopagulati any wisdom to impart about what the funny floppy wire things on the top of my toaster are? I have never been able to figure out what they’re supposed to do.