The Circle of Life: A MIDI controller shaped like a gun. A gun that fits on your keychain. A keychain that is a universal wireless remote capable of turning off any TV. A wireless adapter to carry MIDI. Which brings us back to "DOH!"

Bob Moog asked me for directions once. Which was pretty ironic, seeing as he blazed the path in my field, electronic music. Then last year, we had an even funnier exchange that points up why this amiable inventor (who died Sunday at 71) was so well-loved.

Technology always affects art, and search technology is no exception. Listening to a band called Tilly And The Wall, I wondered if, consciously or not, their style might have been influenced by search-engine optimization. This after all is a band that features a glockenspiel player and a tap dancer.

Whither General MIDI? 2005-08-09 18:33:59 BeigeBat Or is that wither, General MIDI? At one point, you led a crusade (http://www.fatman.com/fatlabs.htm) to improve General MIDI synthesizers. Are they now as good as they’re going to get? How are composers of interactive music using GM now? Or MIDI in general?

The Smart-Aleck Oracle answers: SMR misses "M" Intelligent Software and asks The Fat Man to exert his Mighty Industry Pull (MIP) to get the code open-sourced. Well, The Fat Man can do better than that.

Looking for a few good Java apps for the Motorola Razr...

Don't be fooled: They may call it country, but the tech is cutting edge. A look inside the process of recording an album in Nashville, with MP3 examples.

A member of the Plasq programming collective muses, “What if computers talked out loud to each other? What if we could learn that language?”

RSS began its life as a really simple way for content providers to syndicate their content and for content consumers to subscribe to their favorite providers. When the blogosphere emerged, RSS really took off. Now, just as its “simple” technology cousin, HTML, provided the underpinnings of the Web 1.0 technology platform, RSS is emerging as a platform for delivering the broadband and mobile ready applications of a Web 2.0 enabled world. Backed by two application examples, this blog presents a thesis of the key moving parts integral to the RSS platform and how they come together.

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