I just looked in my trash can and noticed this: (Don't be alarmed--your screen is not on fire.) I had bought the "ULTRA X-Finity Flex-Force"--yes, _the_ "ULTRA X-Finity Flex-Force"--in a box covered about 75% in flames and about 5% in chrome... ..And I had not noticed the name of the product until now. I simply shopped for a power supply...

Risk averse game design is the enemy of fun. In other words, it's the enemy of, um, game design. Yet we keep hearing that games can only be made with high budgets, and the game company's responsibility to the high-dollar investors necessetates risk averse policies. But that will not stand, says I.

This lovely site is a remarkable source, nay, museum, of "distilled essence of the worst" of the audio industry. Surely, this is what happens when complex brains get inspired, yet go slightly awry. Unless it turns out that these things work.

Silly design of red Roland pedal requires both foot and hand contact. So I fixed that with a throttle cable from a lawnmower.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Propellerhead's classic "Rebirth" program retired yesterday. Line up. Because to celebrate, those crazy guys are GIVIN' it away!!!

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!"

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.

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