Monthly Archives: July 2007

Press The Button Podcast for July 19, 2007

By site admin | 7/19/2007 - 12:00 am | Contributors, Press The Button Leave a comment

Press The Button Podcast for July 19, 2007. Show notes are available at http://www.glacialcommunications.com/news

A little something I threw together

By glacial23 | 7/15/2007 - 8:59 pm | General, GIS, maphacks, maps, New Stuff 1 Comment

Ok, this isn’t terribly musical, but I decided to throw together a little Google Maps mash-up last night.

Basically, I took a bunch of USGS GeoName data, pulled the “summit” data (aka mountains and hills, etc.) out and reformatted it into XML. The script will then display all the mountains on the map for a particular state/territory (all 50 states, DC, and most territories are represented). For a state with a lot of peaks (California, Alaska, New York, etc.) it’s really slow to render. Be patient. Hopefully I’ll come up with something a bit faster/better soon.

Hopefully this is just the first of many “maphacks”, as I call them.

Check out MapHacks here.

lotsa PTB updatage

By glacial23 | 7/12/2007 - 1:48 pm | General, Press The Button Leave a comment

Take a break for a couple of weeks, and it turns into almost a month…

Ok, let’s see what’s happened the last four weeks:

6/20/2007 was done by the lovely and talented Widget. I haven’t had a chance to listen yet, but she said it was awesome.

6/27/2007 was subbed by DJ Eisenmann of “Soundtrack to the Holy Wars”.

7/4/2007 was a collection of field recordings (some from my recent Bay Area trip, and some fireworks from the 3rd) being processed in real time with some additional samplage.

7/11/2007 was more field recordings from the 3rd and 4th, and a recording of my recent adventure. I did the processing a little differently this time, running the entire program signal through a long digital delay (on an Alesis Wedge) and then feeding it back into the mix. Ended up with some nice distortions.