the reviews page for Penetrating Wagners Ring is another contender for best Amazon review page of all time.

MIDIBox is a collection of circuit designs for DIYing your own controller (not an instrument per se - you've got to plug it into some more hardware for it to be a noisemaker - though there are some synthy things as part of the MIDIBox project). Its only William's particular MIDIBox that has these exact specs, or those particular nifty buttons and faders.

They sure are awesome buttons, though.

Perfect for Burning Man.

Ever better, for most Canon cameras you can load the CHDK firmware, and add features like scripts to do time lapse that run entirely from the camera with no tethered device needed. Its great fun, and time lapse is just one of the many things hacked into this great firmware, including motion detection, RAW, and high speed modes. And despite being 'firmware', its loaded from the card, so you can easily revert to the cameras original firmware simply by removing the card.

Anyone with a hacker spirit who owns a Canon camera should look into it.

Seriously the CHDK firmware is worth a BB Gadgets post on its own.

A heads up - I couldn't see large parts of the linked article, including the quoted portion, using Safari 3, though it showed up find in Firefox.

For me, one of the big problems is that it has only one kind of relationship, and it calls it friendship. So, people I was on a board with, people I met while wearing only a kilt at Burning Man, people I went to high school with, and family members all get lumped in as 'friend's. Its only the relentless superficiality of Facebook that saves it from the horrors of, say, Orkut, which actively encouraged you to have your business contacts on the same account you used for flirtation.

One of the few long term survivors in the social networking world seems to be LinkedIn - at least, its the only one that still has people joining it years after the initial rush, and I think part of that is its effort to carefully maintain that separation of roles - its for business use, and adding someone doesn't mean they are a 'friend', just a contact.

KK Juggy of defunct Australian band Machine Gun Fellatio actually did put cute little googly eyes on her vagina (well, technically at the top of her public hair), and would dance naked on stage while the muppet show theme played.