1. We regret to report that even after extensive, delicious research we have been unable to determine how soba noodles can possibly taste as good as they do.

    We remain undaunted.

  2. My first puredata patch: Canoner! A cross between a delay and a looper, this patch allows you to play canons solo.

    Hit Start/Round as you start playing, then again at a round point, and the patch will continue to play what you played with that delay until you hit Stop.

    Extending the canoner to support n>2 part canons is left as an exercise for the reader.

    Patch code:

    #N canvas 405 217 363 240 10;
    #X obj 26 34 tgl 40 0 empty empty empty 17 7 0 10 -204786 -1 -1 0 1
    ;
    #X obj 26 84 route 1 0;
    #X obj 214 201 delwrite~ round 10000;
    #X obj 214 176 adc~;
    #X obj 26 117 timer;
    #X obj 26 148 delread~ round;
    #X obj 26 198 dac~;
    #X floatatom 165 149 5 0 0 0 - - -;
    #X floatatom 129 149 5 0 0 0 - - -;
    #X obj 26 174 *~ 0;
    #X obj 101 34 bng 40 250 50 0 empty empty empty 17 7 0 10 -260097 -1
    -1;
    #X text 13 15 Start/Round;
    #X text 106 14 Stop;
    #X text 249 176 Input Stage;
    #X connect 0 0 1 0;
    #X connect 1 0 4 0;
    #X connect 1 1 4 1;
    #X connect 1 1 8 0;
    #X connect 3 0 2 0;
    #X connect 4 0 5 0;
    #X connect 5 0 9 0;
    #X connect 7 0 9 1;
    #X connect 8 0 9 1;
    #X connect 9 0 6 0;
    #X connect 9 0 6 1;
    #X connect 10 0 7 0;
    

  3. At first this page on the bagpipe society website looks like a perfectly normal webpage.

    But take a closer look:

    That woman has SHAUN THE SHEEP BAGPIPES

    OBJECTIVELY BEST BAGPIPES EVER

    WHY ARE ALL BAGPIPES NOT LIKE THIS

    I HEREBY DECREE THAT ALL NON-SHAUN BAGPIPES ARE INFERIOR AND MUST BE CONVERTED

    NON-SHAUN BAGPIPE PLAYERS, REPORT TO YOUR NEAREST CONVERSION FACILITY FOR UPGRADE

  4. Musicians+bands: please put a paypal donate button or similar on your site so that when it’s easier for people to torrent your music rather than buying copies (physically or digitally) we can still give you money. We want to give you money!

  5. After almost two years of mainly playing the gurdy and recorder, I can feel the accordion calling me again. It’s saying “Remember all that stuff you miss, like chords, polyphony and 4 octaves range? I can do that! Pick me! Pick meeeeee!”