This is a reminder to what I stated already. See you all at The Forest, Edinburgh chip-heads, it's gonna be awesome :)

 

yes, Edinburgh and scottish-based buglers, you are in for a treat. I've just returned from the curiously coiffured baron of bullshit and (not to mention CERTIFIED satirist) Andy Zaltzman's Fringe show at the stand this year. (WARNING PUNS HAVE RETURNED WITH A VENGEANCE)

Awesome as it was, In light of last year's triumphant debut of suitable bugle themed clothing. This year the theme - justifiably, in my opinion - has move to confectionary. Given how suitably enfatuated they are with a certain product eminating from belgium these days. I took direct inpiration from my own attempt at creating a coat of arms for them. and done exactly that, and have come up with the bugle's own belgian waffle (with a suitable bit of sketching using some nutella chocolate spread)... Very worthy of the peurile satirical podcast Dontcha think? :P

 

And andy Himself seemed to approve when I presented it to him after his show. :)

 

John, Andy, if you're reading this and you've bitten all the fingers off the hands that feed you at timesonline. Fund the podcast buy making and selling these confectionary items. Have this idea on me. :)

I hope everyone that reads this is now a bugler, If not they you bloody well should be. In the latest epsidode of this hilarious podcast (mp3 link) after about nearly half an hour impressively (& depressingly) satirising the american Debt ceiling. They start to honour the Downright amazing sonic feat of the tiny water boatman, with john doing so with his own "Heavenly Piece" >=D

Enjoy:

 

I studied Mechanical Engineering for my degree, And before that I did obligatory trigonometry at school.

The following animated image would have made me understand - in 5 seconds - what it took me the best part of 2 months to get my head around at classroom level in my pre-university years. 

You're welcome :)

I'm beginning to feel really sorry for my fellow tech and net geeks across the atlantic. Given how bad petent trolls have become and the lack of available choice you have in terms of internet service (Even Mobile internet as I myself have personally discovered on my recent jaunt over there)  means that those companys have you consumers bent over a barrel with your trousers & pants down ready to insert!

That last analogy came to light after I realised I had the following Engadget article in the bookmarks of my phone for the last month or so and totally forgot about it. In it there is a very informative video of journalist Rick Carr going about Europe determining what has made internet service over here seemingly better than what can be had in the states. And he points out both the pros and cons (ie folk in rural areas being left out whilst high densitiy population areas reap the rewards) of this.

Read more on engadget. 

Being the gadget hungry geek that I am, Regular readers of this know that the patent system in the (not so) good ol' US of A right royally pisses me off. And I don't even live there!! >=[ over the last hour or so prior to scribbling this I was listening to an online-hosted NPR show This american life that tries to navigate the patent minefield  - which if it continues developing at the current rate, would need this kind of vehicle in order to do so. 

Aside from taking how obsurd the situation is, what you'll take away from listening to it, amongst other things, is the following:

• The insane costs for dealing with patent suits or settling away from them, which is ultimately passed to the consumer.
• The ironic current career of the person who coined the term "patent troll".
• Many tech patents exist that cover manythings tech savy users, start-ups, and code monkeys take for granted. and are repeatedly issues for the same functions
• The existance of a patent for a certain bread based "invention" that made me wish i did a similar thing with my own posterior.

I think all recent tech startups should just move to new zealand and be done with it!!

The program can either be downloaded or streamed from here.

Via Engadget Alt

As does Art Brut's Eddie Argos, MC lars, Scroobius pip, and some other guy I haven't heard of... hey 4 out of 5 aint bad :P. And I agree with eddie on ghostbusters 3!!

Via ATD's site

And all it takes is a trip to the stationary cupboard :P....

Via B3ta

In an earlier post, I mentioned Inverse Phase's Kickstarter to recreate "pretty hate machine" in Chiptune. Well he's only gone and reached his funding goal. As an immediate reward for this he has released his gameboy-composed version of "the only time" as a teaser of what's to come. So far it is sounding brilliant and I can't wait for the rest of "pretty eight machine" to come to light!! Enjoy:

 

 

one of my favorite films in recent years is Tron Legacy. The following comes from youtube user pierremanry And given how much of a chiptuney retro-gamey geek I am... Well... obvious Squee-ing is obvious.

Music is from midimachine