Signal to Noise This has been all over the web for a while, but it got a bit more of a push recently, so I thought I'd mention it.

Hit Song Science is software that measures the potential of a song to be a hit. Basically a song is measured against all the characteristics of every Billboard hit for the past 30 years and given a score. J-Lo, Anastacia and Norah Jones are already using it to make sure they only deliver surefire winners. Gak.

More about it here.  ¶ 2:08 PM (0) comments links to this post

  William Gibson William Gibson writes the kind of books that I'd want to write if I was a novelist - he writes about the present and the future and his characters get better and better with each book. He has a blog, and some time ago he stopped blogging, because the blogging was getting in the way of his 'real' writing. So I stopped looking for his new posts. However, he seems to have started up again. I recommend his blog - he gets hold of some very interesting tidbits.  ¶ 6:18 PM (0) comments links to this post

  Music is fun Music is fun. I've always found playing, listening to, or writing music to be a wholelottafun.

This is a great example of musical fun: Audioshrapnel. One of the best megamix-mashup-cutup-sliceitanywayyoulike-mixes I've heard in ages. Get it.  ¶ 11:59 AM (0) comments links to this post