Possession of low-voltage consumer electronics. A love of very noisy things. A do-it-yourself aesthetic – Do you possess these items and/or attributes? Then come join the Circuit Bending hoedown! It’s disturbing and easy! Here’s the how and why (no, actually, the how and what)… Circuit Bending is the art of messing with the electronics inside […]
Author Archives: Mr Speaker
We Are For The Big
3 years without even a mention of Star Wars on this nerdy blog. That is pretty impressive.
Google Gears: The Mega Cookie
OOooh, I’m all giddy! Moments ago I discovered today’s release from Google: Google Gears. It’s like they reverse-engineered some advanced cookie technology from a crashed web-based UFO. Or something similar. I’m typing this post as I explore, so we’ll see how my opinions of it change from now to the end of the post – […]
Helpful Error Messages
Bug fixing web services at 8.30am on a Monday morning is not really that much fun. The first 2 coffees haven’t even started kicking in yet. And a crashing IDE doesn’t usually help the situation along either. Usually doesn’t – but the error message returned to me today has added a slight spring to my […]
In defence of Twitter
Nah, I’ve got nothing.
Consumer Good God
Let’s get this straight – I ain’t nobody’s shill. I don’t shill. But I am a half-decent consumer and I can appreciate a good product. As rare as they might be. So I’m lending some valuable Mr Speaker cyber* space to The PlusDeck 2c Cassette Player – which transcends the status of mere “good product” […]
Track: Happy (Hardcore)
Yes, yes, yes… It’s been a LONG time since the last post in the Earwax category. It’s not that I haven’t been doing any tracks – It’s that I haven’t been finishing them. I’ve explained about my attention span before, I’m sure. Anyway, here I present to you a glitchy, bell-y piece I’m pretty happy […]
Marinated Not-Chicken Wings
Oh yes, at last a return to the Not-Product series. Episode #4 covers the much misunderstood “Gluten Chicken Product” – in an exciting new form: The Marinated Not-Chicken Wing.
Web automation with Chickenfoot
I was getting scared there for a minute. It had been at least a few weeks since I last found something on the interweb that rocked my web-based world. Things were getting desperate, and for a moment I feared I might be forced to go back and work on one of my half-finished projects or […]