Wednesday, January 21, 2004

TIME: No talent required with GarageBand. "Music, as any teen in a garage band will tell you, should be as simple to make as it is to listen to... [MacMinute.com: Up-to-the-minute Mac news -- around the clock, around the world.] I installed the new iLife '04 last night and spent just a few minutes playing with GarageBand.  I haven't seriously played a musical instrument in about 25 years, but this app sparked my interest.  The options available for selecting an instrument and customizing it with dozens of effects is really amazing.  I should probably buy a cheap MIDI keyboard and get my kids started playing around with the program. 9:09:53 AM     The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work. Ward Cunningham talks with Bill Venners about complexity that empowers versus complexity that creates difficulty, simplicity as the shortest path to a solution, and coding the simplest thing when you're stuck. [Artima Articles] 8:59:33 AM     The Amazing Properties of Aerogel RideMax writes "We all know NASA is using a substance called 'aerogel' in the Stardust spacecraft to catch pieces of the Wild-2 comet. The NYT is running an article about some other amazing aerogel properties. My favorite quote: 'It's the lowest density of any solid, and it has the highest thermoinsulation properties. Though it would be very expensive, you could take a two- or three-bedroom house, insulate it with aerogel, and you could heat the house with a candle. But eventually the house would become too hot.'" We've looked at Aerogel before. [Slashdot] NASA has some interesting pictures. 8:55:12 AM

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