Glenn Weyant and composers from Net New Music and ImprovFriday have joined to donate works towards a CD of new compositions.

One hundred percent of the proceeds from the sale of these tracks will go
to support www.foodforthepoor.org, a 4 Star Charity which according to Charity Navigator has 96% of their funds going to directly to buying food. $20 will allow them to buy 100 pounds of beans and rice. That’s a lot!

I have submitted my work ‘enigmatic x – transmission’ towards the project. For further information, or to download and donate towards Haitian relief, please visit http://sonicanta.bandcamp.com/.

As an ongoing investigation into the function and the practice of publicness radioplateaux asked artists to respond to the concept of publicness as art practice. In a broad paper composed in 2006/7 radioplateaux artists describe the practice of publicnes as one that may be “a revolutionary everyday practice”. We claimed that publicness may open ones practice essentially to a multiple →

"they promised liberty, they promised freedom, but they themselves are slaves" My first piece in... too long. Available on sendspace for download - see my Music page.

I recently attended the annual conference of one of our major content management system vendors, which for the most part was very enjoyable and quite inspiring. Until we were asked to contribute our questions by Twitter. I took a look around the room. Very few people seemed to have brought a laptop or netbook, a few started checking their iPhones or Blackberries. →

Awesome. Really worth watching in HD.

I've spent an inordinate amount of time playing with the healthBase beta, which claims to be NetBase's 'research solution for healthcare', since reading this forum entry on TheDailyWtf.com. Described as 'when semantic extraction goes horribly wrong'... these are the results of a disastrously untested search engine being let loose on the net... and screenshots of howlers are growing day by day →

Sometimes it actually works in favour of the good guys... Just occasionally I come across a story that turns my world view upside down. We've become accustomed to the horror stories of large corporations using and misusing software patents to swallow up small business and buy out rights to alleged infringing programs. Australian entrepreneur Ray Richardson's story is different. ABC's The →

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How to make :hover work in IE6 Peter Nederlof's javascript fixes CSS dropdown menus and other elements that use the :hover pseudoclass. If you read Dutch you can read his essay here. Lightning Tools Okay, I'm super geeky and like modifying Sharepoint styles longhand in XSL. But its not something for the faint-hearted - one mistake and all your web parts can turn out →

As far as legendary threads go, this one has to take the cake: http://thottbot.com/i13397 3.8 years and still going strong.... wait... how long has WoW been out? Blizzard actually updated the tooltip on the item to reflect the meme.