The problem:

I wanted to print the extremely-twisted and NSFW Cards Against Humanity deck (available as a free PDF). The last 5 pages have white text on a black background, which kills my toner and looks awful (e.g. uneven toner placement, smudging, etc). I wanted to print these as black-on-white instead, but couldn’t find a black-on-white version of the PDF. Furthermore, I couldn’t figure out how to do it at print time (my laser printer doesn’t seem to have an “invert” option).

My solution:

I used ImageMagick’s command line “convert” tool to make an inverted version of the last 5 pages of the PDF. Assuming the original PDF is at “in.pdf”, we want to process pages 25-29, and spew the output into “out.pdf” the syntax is:

convert -density 300 -negate "in.pdf[24-28]" out.pdf

Here’s what it does:

-density 300

This tells “convert” to use a 300 DPI resolution when rendering the PDF as a raster image (i.e. reading the image). If the density is low, the output will look really blocky. 300 DPI looked good enough for my purposes. Yes, this means we’re converting a vector format to raster, and we should avoid lossy techniques. Again, this was good enough for me.

-negate

This tells “convert” to flip the color of the image (i.e., black becomes white and vice versa)

"in.pdf[24-28]"

This tells “convert” which file to read as input (in.pdf), and specifically which frames to read (24-28). In this case, a frame correlates to a PDF page number. Frames are 0-based (i.e. the first frame is “0″), so this really means to read pages 25-29.

out.pdf

This tells “convert” to write the output to a file called “out.pdf”.

And how it looks:

As you can see, I’m still left with a black blob on the last page of the PDF (which was previously white), but I’ll be tossing that anyway, so there’s no fear of smudging.

Would you have addressed the issue in a smoother way? Drop me a comment!

Cheerleaders beget games : FAWM is full of smart, talented artists. A number of them left positive, cheerleader-style comments (vs harsh criticism) on my songs. Don’t get me wrong, honest critiques are still helpful and have their place. But for FAWM I’m sure this encouraged more song output, and of songs that I like. I need to become a better cheerleader.

Write for yourself: Above all. Worry about the audience second.

Large collaborations can work: 6 FAWMers (myself included) completed a pretty decent song within 2 days. To me, the collaboration was amazing. No walking on eggshells, no ego trips, no shirking of responsibility. Easy-going, fun, talented, trusting group. My favorite collaborative product since Rocko. I usually shy away from these endeavors; maybe that needs to change.

When all else fails, there’s Yahoo! Answers: A while back, I had to delete tons of old e-mail. I wrote down the subjects I liked, and planned to FAWM with them as titles. When it was time to FAWM, lyrics didn’t arrive. (This song was supposed to be “Can you access this directory?”). So I went back to the Answerman schtick, and started cranking out tunes. Standbys are old, but beautiful.

Record it, even the homeless: About 7 months ago, I started a Google Docs document with scraps of song notes (titles, phrases, words I liked, etc). I added a bookmark link to my browser’s toolbar, so I could load it up quickly. When a tiny thought popped in my head, I added it to the Doc. And as a result of recognizing/capturing those thoughts, more ideas came. It was like my brain said, “oh, you think these stupid thoughts are important, do you? Well, have more then.” I haven’t been able to mine it hardcore, but I did get to use the puppet line in a FAWM song. It was comforting that I had a bucket of fillers if I needed them… and they cheered me up by themselves.

Instant gratification is important: ‘Far as I can recall, each of my FAWM songs were written, recorded, and posted in one studio session (generally within 4 hours). The only exceptions to the rule were Pure Cane Lover (a 2-day, 6-person collab), and some Mindless Instrumentals. That is to say, only one song got finished, which took more than one sitting. If I want it finished, I have to keep going. Once I hit 4+ hours for a draft, it may be time to give up and move on.

Make sure you like your vocals: …because you probably will never bother retaking them again. This is a corollary to the “instant gratification” comment.

Don’t expect people to immediately grasp art pieces: I created a gimmicky song that took some effort to appreciate. Not surprisingly, I suppose, people were slow on the uptake. I had to explain it. Some art pieces are destined to be a joke between me and myself, Andy Kaufman-style. Maybe no explanation is necessary at all.

Webcams are creepy: I threw up a UStream feed once in a while during FAWM. I think others enjoyed it, but it was pretty creepy for me. Probably would be more exciting if it were more than a 1-way experience. I really enjoyed watching Charlie Cheney, Debs, and Errol when they were improvising songs on UStream late one night. So they’re creepy … when I’m not the creep.

The Singing Answerman can be helpful: It doesn’t happen often, but I sang a truly helpful response to someone’s PHP question. Pretty low on the snarkometer. And it worked. Down to the line number. Helpful replies swimming in goofy are a nice balance.

Get lost: I’m writing a bad song when I “follow the beaten path” of composition. It’s very easy to accidentally reuse similar progressions, styles and instrumentation as my earlier work, especially since I’ve written a lot of songs. But I’ve been trying to throw myself off that path by trying new stuff. Particularly, for FAWM 2009: learning other genre styles (via video/Web sites), framing the song around instruments I don’t know how to play (so I’m more likely to play strange chords), and singing melodies before fingering them on instruments. I also went heavier into my string/brass samples, as predicted by last year’s FAWM song sprinkling. I need to use the foreign stuff to get myself lost, and use the stuff I’ve mastered to justify the trip. This was most apparent in Mindless Instrumental #2.

Tools are great: I spent a little time fixing up Dillfrog Muse pre-FAWM, and it came in really handy. It’s still got some odd bugs ever since I ported it from Perl to PHP and used a new dictionary source; I need to clean it up. But as imperfect as it is, I’m glad I had it. It really improved the “flow” of my lyricizing. I wrote a special program to find phrases patterned after “how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?” Then I manually filtered through the results to find my favorites.

I love writing raps: Nothing new here. I was not the sole author of the Pure Cane Lover rap lyrics, but I did help glue them together. And I love a good rap lyric. My process seems to be pretty straightforward: rhyme a bunch of weird words, talk about how awesome you are, and say something suggestive or vulgar. Done. (Sidenote: being an Answerman helped me here, too; one of the questions I read but didn’t answer was something like, “What does it mean when a guy says he ‘melted’?”). Astronaut amused me, as well as the studio/live versions of Brioche. More, please!

Don’t talk, sing: An old technique, but it continues to pay off. I struggled with this on Bugs. There are still talking parts, but there used to be more. It’s either rap, or singing, or both. None of this talking nonsense. Hyperbolically speaking.

Studio monitors awe: I upgraded from a ~$100 colored 2.1 speaker system to an ~$80 pair of passive Event 20/20 monitors (including shipping costs! THANK YOU, eBay!). They’ve made music come alive again, and my mixes feel a lot cleaner now that the coloring has gone away. And I don’t use headphones as much, so the earache has passed. So very much worth it.

Okay, that’s all I’ve got. Now I need to compare these thoughts against 2007′s notes, and see what’s changed.

Anyway, between Friday night and Sunday night, we built this song, exercising numerous tubes of the Interweb in the process. It’s been a blur, but here’s a roundup of the tools we used and some of the events that tied into it:

Friday

FAWM chat: P.J., J-Cro, and Errol were trying to rally a team in FAWM chat. That’s how I found out about, and joined, the cause.

UStream: I started a UStream video broadcast in my “studio” room, while Pigfarmer Jr (hereafter, P.J.) and John Crossman (hereafter, J-Cro) were typing lyrics. I slowly tried to find some adequate drum+synth sounds, and a way to start shaping the verse music/melody. I was a bit slow, but by the end of the night we had a verse and a bridge. Other chatters offered contributions to the lyrical flow. I believe Stephen Cope suggested finishing “Splenda is bitter, Equal is dry” with “get off the sh*tter and zip up your fly”. Sad to say, we didn’t use that couplet.

Google Docs: At some point, I took my collection of chatroom lyrics and notes and threw’em in a Google Doc to share with the team. They could edit and share doc with anyone else, which made it really smooth to pull other members in. Lyric editing became breezy; throughout the project, I’d look at my Google Docs window to find someone added lyrical gems, polished others, or offered alternatives. I didn’t even have to refresh my window or worry about having two windows open. It just worked. Slick.

Saturday

FTP: Okay, I got old-school. Verse and other team ideas in hand, I recorded a demo of the song structure, and FTP’d 2 MP3s to my Web site. One MP3 had the demo with heavily-autotuned vocals (to reference the melody), and the other without vocals. I linked the MP3s from the Google Doc and sent an e-mail update (via Google Docs) to the team. Google Docs knows the e-mail address of each collaborator, so I didn’t have to keep a special mailing list, or worry about including everybody. So easy.

Stickam, Google Talk + Video: We didn’t have a chorus yet, and I was ready to give up (writer’s block). Errol saved the day by writing lyrics in no time, but I still wasn’t sure on the melody or chords. We knew we wanted to use the “reverse sensitive female chord progression” somehow. We ended up on Stickam w/J-Cro. It worked okay for group video chat. I had some mixer issues such that Errol had the honor of hearing not only my voice, but my echo of his voice. Once J-Cro had to go (yes, that rhymes), we landed on the Gmail-based Google Talk + Video. The biggest benefit: less latency than Stickam. It was easier to go back and forth with chorus ideas and iron something out. And a chorus we had! “Huzzah!”

Fun fact: if you use the “pop out into a separate window” feature, and close your main GMail window, you lose the pop-out window too.

Sunday

Anyway… we had a plan. By then, as if by magic, PJ had added another verse to the Google Docs. Fantastic. I updated the demo with the new structure and vocals, FTP’d the new demos, updated the Google Doc’s MP3 link section (poorly at first — I changed the text but not the link — oops), and re-emailed the team.

We recruited more peeps for vocals, and asked everyone to mark the section of the song they’d be sending parts for. I’ve encountered some difficulties/FAQs on past collaborations, so I added the following checklist to the lyric docs:

1. Everybody gets a lead part. Stake your claim below ASAP so nobody else takes it . There’s room for everyone. [Plat] will take what’s left, or cover if someone doesn’t submit.
2. Record your vocal tracks. Don’t forget to include:
   • Your lead part (feel free to vary from the demo’s melody — this is your spot!)
   • Your chorus take (please stick to the melody so our harmonies don’t clobber as much)
   • Your “final chorus” take (it’s all transposed a semitone higher, and ends on a different note too), or else I’m processing your other take .
   • Anything else (feel free to improvise on the other stuff too (e.g. harmonies or whatever)). I can edit them in/out as appropriate .
3. Export and e-mail them to [my e-mail address redacted].
   • 160kbps MP3 or better is great; will also take WAVs or anything else.
   • If you want to overlay vocals, please send them as separate tracks so I have a better chance at processing them (e.g. autotune, compression, eq).
   • Please use as few tracks as possible (e.g. if you have several takes that don’t clobber each other, send’em as a single track)

Honey, does this list look anal on me?

G-Mail: Maybe our team just rocks. But it worked; the “YOURNAMEHERE”s turned into team members’ names, and song parts started rolling in via e-mail. That might not seem like a big deal anymore, but it wasn’t too long ago that Web-mail sites had low mailbox size limits, and even lower e-mail attachment limits. I rounded up the new tracks (including unsolicited surprises) and added them to the project. So much fun.

While waiting for the final puzzle piece from J-Cro, I FTP’d up a 3rd demo mix that included the latest parts. I’m glad I did; J-Cro now had a full view of the existing chorus harmonies and was able to fill in the gaps with precision; he hits the high note at the end of the chorus, which made a huge difference in the dynamics. Keep in mind, everyone else submitted their chorus takes blindly. They heard the original melody, and submitted something based on only that. It worked out far better than I had expected. These are talented folks.

I really appreciated how quickly broadband and audio compression let us shove sounds around the globe.

FAWM: By about 12:15AM Sunday night, the first mix was finished. We uploaded that sucka’ to the FAWM Web site, about an hour after the prolific High Fructose Corn Syrup Girls had uploaded their second track to taunt the previously-non-existent boy band!

Of course, this wouldn’t have happened without FAWM. It was FAWM that spawned the girl/boy-band controversy, and its unofficial chatroom that pulled me in (thanks, Mal!). But FAWM also completed the cycle of magic. So, we posted the song, right? Well, somehow on a late Sunday night, a number of gracious FAWM visitors heard the song and commented on it shortly after. Nearly-instant feedback and gratification, from artisans whose work I know and deeply admire. Can’t beat that.

Outro: That’s the end of my technology round-up. I could rant on so much more, like the unreal team effort, Ben’s being attacked by our reprise, Charlie’s taunting radio intro, the emergence of Whambi, or the magic disappearing rap track, but I have to draw the line somewhere. A 6-member team cranked through a song in about 2 days start-to-finish, which sets a new record in my “collaboration recordbook”. (Don’t think I have one? Remember I drew up that task list!)

The track wasn’t perfect, but it was great fun, and a FAWM crowd-pleaser. Now I just stay up at nights, chewing my nails, waiting for The High Fructose Corn Syrup Girls’ next move. And I don’t even need technology for that.

Before You Dive In: Please keep in mind that these are only tools. You’ll still need to exercise some common sense. Some deals are scams. Some “sales” are at no discount. Some coupons expire early. Some coupons were photoshopped. Some items arrive differently than described. You may “go broke saving money.” Comparison shopping is key.

Okay, here are the sites that served me well.

Slickdeals Forums: This site helped me on so many deals, it deserves its own entry. Users post deals in an open forum, and the threads can be rated (the more thumbs, the better). They’ve got a Hot Deals section for specific deals, and a subforum for coupons too. I use Deal Alerts to automatically e-mail me new deals that match my interests (example: keywords of “amazon | wii | gamecube” and 3.5 thumbs or higher). You’re going to encounter whole new abbreviations, though (example: “$10 off + F/S at TRU (YMMV)”). When that happens, look’em up here first. In case you’re wondering how Slickdeals gets their money, I have a feeling it has to do with getting referral $$ when you buy stuff through their links.

Coupon sites: Retailmenot doles out online coupon codes; I got a great hotel rate this way, but a lot of the codes are stale. You may have to try a few of them before finding one that works. Slickdeals’ Coupon forums are a great source of online codes and printable coupons for retail stores. Dealcoupon used to be a favorite of mine, but I don’t use it so much anymore.

Deal Aggregation: Clipfire aggregates a number of deal sites. If you’re looking for something specific, try searching for it here. It might be on sale… and if it’s not, at least you know what price it might come down to again later. Just keep in mind that some of the sites they aggregate might post non-deals, to boost their referral revenues. So use common sense. Looking for DVDs? Start with DVDPriceSearch. It’s tons faster than searching Amazon/Best Buy/etc individually, plus they track some of the coupon codes for you too.

Video Games: Cheapassgamer can spot a video game deal like nobody’s business. Some deals are on their homepage, but the real meat is in their forums. You have to register to see those deals, but it’s non-intrusive and well worth it. If you’re looking to trade games, don’t mind sending them through the mail, and you’re interested in titles that are 1+ years old, Goozex is the best place to go.

Amazon: Amazon.com is great, but their prices fluctuate a lot. Probably even moreso now that they’ve eliminated their price protection policy. So I use tools like Apnoti to e-mail me when a certain item’s price drops. Or you can view how Amazon’s price for an item has changed over time. I use Frozenwarrior’s bookmark to check history on the fly.

Hope that helps!

The jams range from a few minutes to 20+ minutes. They’re great practice, and a lot more fun to play in than to listen to. But here are a few highlights from this week:

Salsa Excerpt
Plat (Drums), HoraciosAllen (Piano), Mono (Guitar), BBAndTheMC (Bass)

Jazz Excerpt
Plat (Drums), HoraciosAllen (Keys), Mono (Guitar), BBAndTheMC (Bass)

Rock Excerpt
Plat (Drums), Slyos (Rhythm Guitar), Zden (Guitar Solos), Not NT (Rhythm Guitar), Fin (Bass)

These excerpts are covered under the Creative Commons’ Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

Now, for the rest of you who might be looking for Rock 2: Crashed Plane stuff, here’s what’s left.

Q: Where can I play Rock 2?
A: Dillfrog.com no longer hosts the game, but other generous fellows seem to still host the game. If you’re feeling lucky, try Mindreader’s server (telnet host: rock2mimic.tzo.com, port: 4000)

Q: How can I get the Rock 2 source code?
A: It’s pretty ugly; I never wrote it expecting it to be released. But it’s released on SourceForge as “RockServ 2″. Instructions are on the RockServ Wiki

Q: How can I get the Rock 1 source code?
A: It is not released yet, and may not be ever. It’s that bad. But if it were released, it’d be on SourceForge’s RockServ wiki as well.

Not finding what you wanted? Leave a message in the comments and I’ll update the FAQ.

1. If the word begins with a “sn” sound (e.g. “snore”), convert it to a hard “k” sound (e.g. “core”).
2. Conversely, if the word begins with a hard “k” sound, convert it to a “sn” sound.
3. If neither of these conditions apply, leave the word alone.

I know this sounds strange, but you’ll never appreciate snonversion until you’ve snooked up snoffee in the snitchen.

Anyway, I got “snurious” which words would survive the snonversion (existing before and afterward). So I coded up a fairly snomprehensive list! It’s pretty safe to say this is a Dillfrog exclusive!

Thanks Snelly. Snatch you later, y’all.

Wow, unless I’m missing something, this seems like a pretty lame “invention” to come out of “Emerson Research”.

I recently bought a SmartSet clock radio, thinking it would use the radio waves to calibrate the clock (so if the power went out and the battery went out, the clock would automatically set itself properly). The clock set itself just dandily after plugging it in, but then I became curious about how to force it to re-calibrate the time.

I couldn’t find anything in the manual on how to do this (if the battery dies, the manual instructs you to manually set the clock’s time)! So I googled around without much luck, then I visited their (“Under Construction”) Web site at www.emersonradio.com with no leads.

So I figured, since they were bragging about the SmartSet (R) technology (“…Someday all clocks and clock radios may be this smart. But today the technology is only available from Emerson Research.”), I could look up the patent number (6,567,344) to see exactly what it was about.

Remembering that Google is my hero, I searched for “patent 6567344″ and Google lead me directly to:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?TERM1=6567344(…)

After a light read of this patent, it seems to me that they are patenting the process of setting a clock’s time prior to finally selling it to the customer, sometimes setting the time specific to the target market’s region.

In case you’re too lazy to read the link, here’s their commentary on Related Art:

“Clocks, and in particular clocks that have date and time displays, are known. Specifically, clock radios which, after being started by a buyer, set themselves automatically to the actual time are known. In some cases, such clocks set themselves to display the actual date. However, automatic time setting, as well as automatic date setting only occurs when a time data signal transmitted by radio (e.g., the DCF77 time mark signal transmitted in Germany) at the location of the clock can be received by the clock with a sufficient level of quality. The receipt of such a time mark signal is not always guaranteed.”

“It is therefore apparent that there is a need for a clock that sets its time independently from the reception of a time data signal that is transmitted via radio waves.”

What the heck? Sure, the patent also talks about how the clock stores calendar information (so it recognizes Feb 29th on leap years, as well as daylight saving time), but aren’t most popular operating systems prior art for that?

Aren’t some computer systems preconfigured to have the proper time out of the box?

This doesn’t seem like any special technology worthy of a registered trademark, much less a patent.

What do you think? Am I missing something? Sounds like I’m taking this beast back to Wal-Mart.

[Editor's note: Q & A section follows]

Branflake: So let me get this straight, you open the box and the clock is set? They are trying to get an exclusive patent on that? I thought that the so called “radioactive” or “atomic” clocks (that are based from a signal in Colorado where there is an atomic clock) also recieve the time setting data via radio waves? WTF.

One thing I really dont get is how when my laptop’s batteries die, the clock is always right when i boot it back up. Hell, my other laptop was DEAD broken for a year and when i booted it back up after getting it all plugged in and proper ram in it…. the time and dates were correct. That is one smart computer if you ask me.

I say take the clock back Plat. I highly recommend Bridgestone clocks though, they are kickin’.

Plat: Bran, my guess is that there’s another (smaller) battery in your laptop, like what you might find on a computer’s motherboard, which stores your clock and other basic setup information. But yeah.. you’re right.. I don’t get what’s so special about this.

Rhorn: That’s actually exactly right and it’s on the motherboard. I know this because on one of my own computers, it died on me, and I was confused to no end as to why the time was always incorrect every time it was cold-booted. The battery should, theoretically, be recharged whenever the computer is on.

Lquiwn: Pretty worthless patent… But what about other clocks? Is there a clock that recieves a radio signal with the time like you initially thought?

Plat: Lquiwn, I’m not sure anymore. There has to be something out there, since the patent lists these clocks as prior art. There weren’t any obvious choices at Wal-Mart, so I guess I’ll have to look a little better. I’d be happy with something that had an Ethernet jack on the back and synched with NTP, but I’m guessing that wouldn’t come cheap.

Oh, and just as an update, here’s nearly the end of my story.

Since the original post, I set the clock time way off, unplugged it, and went to sleep. Yesterday morning, I plugged the clock in again, and it automagically reset itself (you should see it! It rolls through numbers like a slot machine – too bad the emperor has no clothes). Ooh, ahh.

Then later, I unplugged it, took the backup battery out, let it sit a while, and plugged it back in.

Finally.. the clock had no idea what time it was, so I’m guessing it’s solely relying on this battery to determine the new time for me (as suspected). I’m not a huge fan of clock drift, moreso a fan of revenge, so I’ll be taking this improperly-calibrated clock back to Wal-Mart shortly.

One more fun fact: this SmartSet clock doesn’t offer any options to those who live in states that do not recognize Daylight Saving Time.. so when those people use this clock, they actually have to adjust the time on these dates (whereas before they could have just left the clock alone).

Now that’s smart!

Enstrim: Sounds like the clock sucks. When I read the little clip from the patent you had above, it sounded a lot to me like they were saying the following: “There are a lot of clocks that can set themselves against atomic clocks. But what if you can’t get a good signal from one of the atomic clocks? Then this clock is for you! We have programmed an initial time into the clock that is maintained by a batter! This initial time MIGHT EVEN BE CORRECT!”

Though, as has been already noted, you’re screwed without the battery.

Ovid: What you almost should do is get one of those VIA C3′s (the tiny ones) and set up some kind of LED on there with ntp and just set your own cool little clock from a central time server (e.g. time.nist.gov), especially since most modern BIOSes have an option to restart after a power outage…but maybe that’s a little spendy for an alarm clock…plus you know the alarm wouldn’t go off in the case of a power outage…maybe it’s not a good idea

Plat: Yeah, I don’t know.. it sounds like fun, but I’m a little too lazy to build my own. Still haven’t found one that does what I want, not that I’ve looked much. I *did* find another clock radio (by RCA? I forget) which was preset like the SmartSet ™ radio, but they actually admitted how it worked upfront, AND let you enable/disable daylight savings time. Ooh, ahh. Wonder if they’ll get sued .

But it’s mostly pseudo-science; we used a small sample. Tawny and I opened three single-serving bags from the same 7-pack, and separated the ingredients.

Then I measured the weight of each on my USB scale (meant for estimating postage costs).

Here’s what we found, sorted by weight. I’ve placed the Nutrition Facts ingredient-list rank in parentheses where it varies from our findings:

1. (#1) 28g peanuts (unsalted)
2. (#5) 21g black raisins
3. (#3) 21g golden raisins
4. (#2) 18g dried cranberries (lightly sweetened; not as puny as Craisins)
5. (#6) 14g pepitas (a.k.a., pumpkin seeds)
6. (#4) 10g sunflower kernels
7. (#8) 9g almonds (unsalted)
8. (#7) 8g cashews (unsalted)

As you can see, there’s a bit of disparity between the ingredient list and what we actually counted. I’m sure some of the error can be chalked up to misclassifying cranberries vs. black raisins, or even rounding error on the scale. But I think it’s “close enough” for my use.

Sometime mid-May, the stuff hosted on legacy.dillfrog.com will be temporarily or permanently unavailable. So if there’s any content you want to download/archive/etc, please slurp it within the next month.

Sites unaffected: all non-legacy.dillfrog.com stuff. Includes Sourceforge sites (e.g. salp wars, rockserv, frogjam projects), noise.dillfrog.com, blog.dillfrog.com, wurdles.com, funputer.com, etc.

Stuff that will probably live on (though with a multi-month blackout period): encoding tools, guitar chorder, rhymer, songfight explorer, hop to it, album tracker.

Stuff that probably won’t live on: everything else. Includes account system (your login ID, profiles, pictures, etc), forums, tetrinet server, rock 1/2/3, rejoinder, frogjam server, hang, and most of the other experiments.

If there’s something you really don’t want me to kill off, or if you’re looking for source code, please respond in the comments of this post. (But please be specific). I already have a pretty good idea which pages get the most traffic. If you’re a reader of this blog, you probably aren’t using those pages.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

UPDATE June 2 2008: Want to be notified when the Rhymer tool is available again? Then I reckon you join the FrogMuse Announcement mailing list. The snarky-quiet mailing list with a stuffy name.