A few readers have written to me in the last few months, requesting Killer Sudoku puzzles, so I’ve been feverishly working weekends to get some ready for the website. They are just about ready to go, and I’m ready to pass out samples. Killer Sudokus are an interesting hybrid between the Sudoku and Kakuro puzzles […]

In a recent comment here on KrazyDad, Daniel Piker shared some flash variations he made recently of the John Whitney-inspired “Incremental Drift” animations used in my Whitney Music Box. These are all visual eye candy, without music, but they demonstrate some great flash animation techniques! One with semicircles One very colourful one – The complementary […]

I’ve moved KrazyDad and Coverpop to a new private server at Dreamhost, in hopes of improving performance. Performance does indeed seem to be better and so far everything seems to be working okay. However, this here is a big complicated website, and I may have missed something. Let me know (by commenting on this post) […]

It suddenly occured to me as I was driving to work yesterday that the songs “Crack that Whip” by Devo, and “Breathe” by Pink Floyd are oddly similar (did I mention it’s a loooong drive?)… So I downloaded the demo version of Ableton Live last night and came up with this mashup at 2 in […]

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I’ve been playing with making these puzzle-style animated mosaics this week, for a Topspin-related project. The final image is made by reassembling parts of the original image. Here’s a larger Obama/McCain mosaic. And here’s the first one I made, featuring David Byrne and Brian Eno. UPDATE Here are some more I made on Saturday. Flag/Obama […]

Are you a computer nerd? Do you like music? I’m quite pleased to report that the hard working web-services team here at Yahoo! Music unleashed a very powerful new Music API upon the music-nerd community this week. This is the same API we used to build the Facebook Music Videos app, reported here some months […]

Some years ago I developed a crackpot idea I call The Theory Of The Precious Object. This theory is based on the following observations: Crows, racoons and other animals are known to be attracted to shiny objects. Many products which succeed in the marketplace resemble the objects which attract these animals. Our attraction to these […]