hello new nano;

I think it might even do your laundry for you. No, seriously. That think comes with a video camera, a pedometer, a radio receiver (why!?), and other tasty features:

The new iPod nano is available immediately for a suggested price of $149 (US) for the 8GB model and $179 (US) for the 16GB model in silver, black, purple, blue, green, orange and pink through the Apple Store...

Check it out!

moonbell; music from above;

Moonbell is a music generator. It generates music based on lunar topographical data obtained by Japan’s Kaguya (SELENE) explorer between late 2007 to June 2009.

Launch Moonbell
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(via pink tentacle)

the pentatonic scale

"...animation? please use in moderation..."

Word:

Twttr launch announcement (yes; artist currently known is Twitter)

Tech Crunch was less than enthused about "Twttr" launch back in July of 2006:

If this was a new startup, a one or two person shop, I’d give it a thumbs up for innovation and good execution on a simple but viral idea.

But the fact that this is coming from Odeo makes me wonder - what is this company doing to make their core offering compelling? How do their shareholders feel about side projects like Twttr when their primary product line is, besides the excellent design, a total snoozer?

Mirror mirror on the wall

Nathan shows you the trends in the data you provide about your own behavioral / living patterns. I plan on trying it. I think.

Generating empty buzz

By way of Mr Wind comes a link. Mr Wind & I work together. The link that Mr Wind sent me contains an article that mentions my current employer and, more importantly, is authored by a consulting company both Mr Wind & I had the pleasure of working with in the past. Pleasure, of course, is a relative term. Like everything else in life it depends on its environs. I shouldn't digress.

To me the article (which is a part of a blog) appears to have been a random translation of a random white paper from English into some intermediate language and then back into English. Mr Wind has a far more interesting theory that the blog entry was generated by stringing together sentences using a fancy algorithm (whose name escapes me) that chains expression instances based on its perception of how they relate to each other. Mr Wind is wicked smart. No joke. It is true.

In either case, the blog seems to exist for one reason. It links to and therefore promotes other most definitely auto-generated blogs which in turn point back at it. It is a network of auto-generated blogs full of buzzwords and advertisements. The fact that they are connected makes their Google ranks go up. So when you search Google about the aforementioned consulting company or anything else that appears on the pages the blog in question come up higher in the ranks. It is mo' better hits... Bill Hicks was right: