Today’s Links (31/10/08)

• WordPress › Blog » The Visual Design of 2.7
  Looking good.
• Shepard Tones
  "The "sonic barberpole" illusion invented by psychologist Roger Shepard at Bell Labs. The illusion consists of a seemingly endlessly rising or falling set of tones. The trick is done by simultaneously sweeping eight (or so) pure tones (i.e., sine waves) tuned exactly one octave apart. The human ear/brain has a really hard time figuring out which pure tone is the fundamental, so it "slips" periodically, just like an eye watching a barberpole (or looking at an Escher staircase)."
• Five Things You May not Know About NetNewsWire: NewsGator Widget Blog
  The screenshots of old versions are making me all nostalgic.
• Griffin Technology: iTalk Sync
  Free audio recorder for iPhone. (It irritates me no end that a separate Mac app is needed to sync files - it'll be the third such app I've installed, when I should be able to mount the iPhone on my desktop and drag files off it.)
• Does Obama / McCain slash fiction exist?
  Of course it does.
• Conky - Home
  A Linux utility (equivalent to Geektool on the Mac) that puts info on your desktop - uptime, network activity, email notifications and whatnot. A bit fiddly to configure, but there are squillions of sample config files on the web.
• Minefield
  An experimental new version of Firefox. I’ve been using it for a couple of days now, and it’s incredibly fast. Stable too, surprisingly, and all my add-ons work fine (thanks to Nightly Tester Tools).
• hildamagazine.net
  An art magazine.

Posted at 12pm on 31/10/08 by Jack Mottram to the links category.
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