Ditching the X for the U

Here's a very cool story about electronic musician Kim Cascone's decision to switch to using an Ubuntu laptop when his old MacBook died:

Linux Music Workflow: Switching from Mac OS X to Ubuntu with Kim Cascone

Switching my main composition environment from Windows software like Live and FLStudio to Ardour just got bumped up a bunch in my todo list...

2am iPod Sequencers

Widget and Hans stayed up til 2am hacking up some iPod sequencers at NYC Resistor. We are using pdPod on iPodLinux. You can hack your own iPods too, as part of the re-ware project, we are trying to make it easy: http://re-ware.org

Thanks to Bre Pettis for his camera work.