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Wirehead Instruments Basilisk is a new hybrid bassline Synthesizer with digital oscillators, an MS-20-style analog filter, and a generative sequencer. In recent years, many small synthesizers from independent companies have come onto the market designed [...] The post Wirehead Instruments Basilisk, hybrid generative bassline Synthesizer appeared first on SYNTH ANATOMY.

Artist Talk with Krista Svalbonas Artist Consultation with photographer Michael James Hillman Founder and Curator: Douglas Marshall Marshall Gallery Current Exhibition Heidi: How long have you been doing portfolio reviews? Douglas: Well, I’ve been doing reviews overall close to a decade now I guess. I’ve done many of the review festivals around the country as well as looking at countless portfolios in the galleries over the years. But for the …

Previously: Part 1 We’ve just finished the second week of my undergraduate Axiomatic Set Theory course, in which we’re doing Lawvere’s Elementary Theory of the Category of Sets but without mentioning categories. This week, we covered the first six of the ten axioms: notes here. The data to which the axioms apply is as follows: some things called sets; for each set XX and set YY, some things called functions …

Happy (belated) Equinox! In honor of Fall Equinox, I've made an updated list of popular lights. Days are getting shorter in the northern hemisphere. It might be time for a new flashlight. The best flashlight There is no best flashlight, so this is an amalgamation of what enthusiasts have been buying and recommending to others lately along with the author's arbitrary preferences and biases. Please take note that prices and …

In early July, it was announced that Alexander Rossi and Arrow McLaren would be parting ways. I immediately came to the conclusion that the 2016 Indianapolis 500 winner had been fired – another casualty of being employed by Zak Brown. As it turned out, it actually was a mutual parting. Rossi’s contract was up at […]

Interestingly we have had a couple of step changes over the last few years - first with a Bass Cut switch appearing inside the battery compartment on the last standard model, and then with the recent Gold 30th Anniversary Edition - where we got a fully surface-accessible and fully variable mini Bass-Cut knob - which now gets to be standard issue. The compact ODR-1X also gets an external Gain Boost …

WowHaus 1960s modern house in Mapperley Park, Nottingham 1960s modern house in Mapperley Park, Nottingham (image credit: Holden Copley) This one isn’t a time capsule, but this 1960s modern house in Mapperley Park, Nottingham, is a very cool home. (image credit: Holden Copley) It was built in the sought-after part of the city back in 1968. The current owners are selling it after living there for the last twenty years …

While listening to the recent episode of Abnormal Mapping on Final Fantasy XI, host Jackson Tyler and special guest Austin Walker talked about how the number next to “mainline” Final Fantasy games doesn’t really mean a whole lot. They talked about how it was preposterous that games like Final Fantasy Tactics or Bravely Default weren’t numbered Final Fantasy games despite absolutely being Final Fantasy games in spirit, and how the …

The USPTO refused to register the mark shown below left, for "Back packs; fanny packs; tote bags" and for "“Clothing, namely, aprons, t-shirts, sweatshirts, and hats," finding confusion likely with the registered mark shown below right, for, inter alia, backpacks and t-shirts. The goods are in-part identical and those goods presumably travel in the same trade channels to the same classes of consumers. But what about the marks? How do …

What's a ktls I started work on ktls and ktls-sys, a pair of crates exposing Kernel TLS offload to Rust, about two years ago. kTLS lets the kernel (and, in turn, any network interface that supports it) take care of encryption, framing, etc., for the entire duration of a TLS connection... as soon as you have a TLS connection. For the handshake itself (hellos, change cipher, encrypted extensions, certificate verification, …

James Merchant and Robert Martin, eds. Public Health Impacts of Industrial Farm Animal Production. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024. I served on the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production with both authors about 15 years ago and was happy to do a blurb for their book. This hard-hitting book defies meat industry pressure and obfuscation to document the devastating effects of its current production methods on the quality of …

More and more, I'm finding that I just like to "be". Rushing from location to location is fun and exciting, but there's something to be said for taking the time to experience a place.

WelcomeYesterday we played in Ōtautahi, and I recorded my 500th tour breakfast. In order to celebrate an important milestone this blog post will be exactly 500 words long. No one knows when the blog began. It must have been two years ago, at least, perhaps even longer. All we know is that Breakfast and Travel Updates began 499 posts ago as a write-home service for members of the tour party, …

As I retreat from the socials, something I have been wondering about is how much of the frenetic, restless, too-much feeling I get from them is a product of the algos and the corporate incentives, and how much of it might just be something we’re doing. Here, Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy consider a related question: Quite often—for good and bad—changes are driven by or originate in user innovations that …

The Game Forever Home is a game about dog shelters. You work at a dog shelter. You train dogs and find new homes for them. This is a game dog lovers will enjoy. It is a light to mid weight family strategy game. This is the main game board. The four cards on top are four different locations you can send the dogs to - the city, the suburbs, the …