When building MusicSeer (now inactive) in 2002, Brian Whitman needed a way to ferret out bad user information. So he wrote something to generate 10,000 nonexistent band names. Many of which of course now exist. See how you go.
Oasis are giving away three songs from their forthcoming album, Meet The Beatles. Not as downloads — as sheet music. With Arts Council funding, no less.
Andrew C. Bulhak buys a drum machine program. He uses it for years. He discovers his stuff is stuck inside it and he can’t get it out. What does he do? Reverse engineers it, of course. (Slides from Dorkbot talk.) Possibly the obscure format is commercial secrecy, but more likely (as is usual in these cases) it’s just appropriate shame. Binary-coded centimal?
