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Blastwave FX has released Bugs!, a high definition sound effects library that will make your skin crawl.

With Bugs!, you get 700 sound effects that include ambiences, hives, hisses, and movements; from ants to hornets and worms to hissing cockroaches, Bugs is a comprehensive insect collection that every editor should have in their library.

Bugs! features

• Categories include Ambiences, Ants, Bees, Beetles, Cockroaches, Exterminations, Flies, Hornets, 5.1 Surround Sound Elements, And Much More.
• Every sound was originally recorded at 24 bit 96k to ensure the highest quality for today’s production needs and are ready to be plugged in to any production demanding high definition sound.
• Bugs! is embedded with Metadata that is compatible with Pro Tools, Soundminer, NetMix, iTunes and other popular sound library search engines.

Bugs! is available to purchase on a USB Flash Drive, priced at $249 USD.

More information: Blastwave FX / Bugs!

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on March 2nd, 2008:

• Before the Music Dies – Narrated by Academy Award Winner Forest Whitaker, BEFORE THE MUSIC DIES is an unsettling and inspiring look at today’s popular music industry.
• pi10k – Converting the first 10,000 digits of pi into a musical sequence.
• Bat’s powerful lift is illuminated by fog – Technique shows how bats and insects share the secret of slow flight. Bats are awesome!

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on February 4th, 2008:

• Pocket Electronic – An universal electronics DIY kit to build your own MIDI control box. Up to 16 controlling elements can be connected to PE transmitting 16 different MIDI messages on different (or even the same) MIDI channels.
• Our daily bread – A film about where your food comes from in this age of globalization.
• gaussmarkov: diy fx » Fuzzy Logic – A unique circuit for guitar effects builders. It uses readily available SIP sockets to allow easy transistor swapping.

Fuzzy Logic by Gaussmarkov

• Remove shake and motion blur from photos – Nathan Willis dissected three applications for removing the effects of camera movement from your photos.
• Mythbusters, airplane on a conveyor belt – Kottke’s liveblogging account of the Airplane on a conveyor belt myth.
• Red Bull Art Of Can – Red Bull Art of Can is a national juried exhibition featuring artwork in a variety of media that have one thing in common?they are all inspired by Red Bull or crafted from the iconic blue and silver cans.
• Star Wars R2-D2 Peppermill – Not that you’ve noticed… but all fine restaurants on Tatooine feature R2-D2 pepper grinders. Usually after you order your salad of Dagobah greens a Wookie will come around and offer you some fresh ground pepper from one of these handy droid-based mills.

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on January 16th, 2008:

• Mark Richards – Core Memory – An unprecedented combination of computer history and striking images, Core Memory reveals modern technology’s evolution through the world’s most renowned computer collection, the Computer History Museum in the Silicon Valley.
• iGoogle Themes – Can’t live with Google’s bare looks? Check the iGoogle Themes directory for more colorful interfaces.
• Um, Whoops. – Dreamhost mistakenly billed their customers $7,500,000 after one of their guys made a little typo. Yikes!
• 7 Technologies that will Save the Earth in 2008 – EcoGeek is here to keep you informed of the latest technologies that are making our lives better while also ensuring that we don’t spoil the Earth at the same time.
• MAKE: Blog: DIY laptop stand from an Ikea paper towel holder – Budget laptop holders, just make one yourself
• Food: Eat Cloned Animals, FDA Says – Hmm, no matter how I look at this I can’t help but feel it’s wrong…

xoxos has released fauna, a VSTi which emulates animal vocalisations by inducing oscillation as a function of structure instead of processing a source oscillator.

fauna is an elementary application of the kelly-lochbaum tract in conjunction with a simple reed model.

The kelly-lochbaum vocal tract employs a series of coefficients representing open area of the vocal tract to compute transmission.

The length of the tract is divided into five sections, or waveguides. these waveguides function as conventional delays set to very short times to model the acoustic transmission through air.

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Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on October 4th, 2007:

• Chilli-based anaesthetic won’t leave you drooling – Clifford Woolf and his colleagues at Harvard Medical School have discovered a way of blocking just the pain neurons using capsaicin – the active ingredient in chilli peppers – along with a version of lignocaine that can’t diffuse through cell membranes unassisted.
• Big Daddy Hands – The bigger version of the soldering tool, useful for holding more than a small circuit board.
• InfraRecorder – a free CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows. It offers a wide range of powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration.
• Sketch Furniture by FRONT – Pen strokes made in the air are recorded with Motion Capture and become 3D digital files; these are then materialised through Rapid Prototyping into real pieces of furniture.
• Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century – A Daily Celebration of The Golden Age of Upper Lip Hair.
• Ryan McLennan – Beautiful acrylic on paper paintings of wildlife.
• Mike Leavitt – Action Figures – These are articulating, miniature, interactive sculptures, aka. “action figures” or “toys”, each hand-sculpted with synthetic polymer clay, wood and elastic by Leavitt.