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Yamaha to Acquire Steinberg – Yamaha buys the makers of Cubase. I wonder what this means for them.

Faces in the Crowd: The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Cover – click on faces from the famous Beatles album cover and learn about them. (via J-Walk)

Rosegarden: music software for Linux – 1.0pre1 of this multi-tracker has been released. I haven’t tried it, but I know there are a lot of Linux fans reading.

RIP Suprnova – So long old buddy. We sure had some good times together. (The Unofficial Suprnova.org Closure FAQ)

After I posted my Google Suggest Poetry idea the other day I found the SuggestGetter PHP class by Adam Stiles and threw it together.

The Google Suggest Poetry Generator does what I described in my earlier post except that it randomizes which results it chooses so you should get a different poem on each load.

Sometimes the results are interesting, other times they’re not. The first couple of lines are usually the best part and then it just veers off into randomness. It would be interesting to try to keep it relevant to the original five queries somehow to keep things on topic.

Also it hits Google with 40-50 queries each page load and is about the dumbest use of Google’s vast resources I can think of. I asked around and my conscientious web elite buddies seem to think this is okay. If Google objects, I’ll take it down.

Kiddie Records Weekly – “In 2005, Basic Hip Digital Oddio will feature an entire year of albums from the golden age of kiddie records, lovingly transferred from the original 78s and encoded to 192kbps MP3 format. That’s one a week for 52 weeks!”

The Fine Art of Sampling Contests – Creative Commons remix contest. Prizes are to get on CDs, one being a Fine Arts Militia release with Chuck D.

I’ve been thinking about making a lyric/poetry generator from Google Suggest by stringing together its suggestions.

For instance, enter a first phrase like “back in the “, it autocompletes to “back in the saddle”. Take the last word and enter “saddle “, first result is “saddle club”, last word “club “, etc. Following that example a few times you get:

back in the saddle club med line 6 second abs cbn news of the world of warcraft 3 mobile phones 4 u haul master card games online dictionary

Which until it gets stuck on “online dictionary” forever is obviously pretty moving and great pop poetry, fit for immediate publication. You could randomize the suggestion selection and formatting to mix things up a bit.

Here’s another:

i am an idiot savant syndrome x factor v leiden university of washington post office depot america west wing nuts and bolts and nuts and bolts and nuts and bolts and nuts and bolts and nuts and bolts

Beatles Christmas Records – MP3s of Christmas albums made by the Beatles sent out to their fans each year from ’63-’69. A lot of funny stuff in there.

New Apple Signature iPods – funny, mean branded iPod parodies.