There's a new electronic music article at Till.com, where I review all the Mellotron Patents.  Enjoy.

My company, Riverbed Technology, goes public today.  Booyah!

RVBD at Yahoo Finance

The new Weird Al Yankovic song is a gangsta rap called "White and Nerdy".

First in my class here at MIT
Got skills, I'm a champion at D&D
MC Escher - that's my favorite MC
Keep your 40, I'll just have an Earl Grey tea

There's no killer app I haven't run
At Pascal, well I'm number one
Do vector calculus just for fun
I ain't got a gat but I got a soldering gun

Weird Al comes through again; he's just so good.

The full lyrics are here:

And the video is available on YouTube:

'Down with the peeps.

This is our new dog Scout.  He's a golden retriever puppy, 9 weeks old (born July 4th).  Welcome little guy!

Here's a photo of my desk at work, showing off my Mac with the transparent screen option.  (I cleaned up the desk a bit before taking this shot.)

And here's a remarkable collection of photos of computers with transparent screens:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/w00kie/sets/180637

Sure, this is silly.  But it's also a lot of fun.

The real question is, Why are almost all of these transparent screens running on Macs?  One possiblity is that Macintosh fans would be more likely to do something like this.  Another is that Macs still have some mystique that contributes to the illusion; it's almost believable that a Mac would have a transparent screen option.

Following up on my previous...

Here's a great article on the Ford Nucleon Atomic Automobile from DamnInteresting.com, which itself is a very cool site.  Don sez, check it out.