Ideas

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Key:
! = I am working on this
- = I am not working on this
* = I am really interested in making this
$ = You could make money with this

From the...

+ MS Windows dept
    - Indicate which device disconnected when it makes that stupid beep noise
+ Music dept:
    - Renoise: Freeze VSTs into .xrnx file for better collaboration
    - Turn the Novation LaunchControl into a sequencer
    - Acapella detector for sampling
    * Renoise: Hold a key to input velocity. Longer press = harder velocity
    $ Brownian motion amplitude mixer (most mixes are static/boring, imagine a mix that is always in flux)
    * Ncurses sysex editor for Casio CZ-101 & Kurzweil K1000 (or any outboard gear)
    - Renoise: Pattern effect that ignores swing
+ Art dept:
    - Simulate afterimages
    - Simulate/investigate paint blending
    $* Simulate theatrical conversations on phones, fb, IRC. Make a DSL to describe conversations, add UI component to play them back
    $* Platform for criticizing critics
    $- Pop culture indoctrination app, "catches you up" with trivia
    - Make a dada collage of a google images query, great for sending someone a bunch of dicks
+ Math dept:
    - Prime clocks, prime telephone numbers, prime zip codes
    * Read a tex equation aloud
+ I am fucking nuts dept:
    $* Text messaging Exposure Response Prevention service (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_and_response_prevention)
    - Use NLP to detect when someone's friend is texting for them
    * Journalist death tracker
+ Didactic dept:
    - Vim tutorial w/light up keyboard
+ Technical tools dept:
    - Vim: Pyscope, cscope for python
    - Vim: In C source, automagically report value of sizeof()
    - Generate putty config based on xterm config
    * Simulate a degraded network in the browser
    * Give up on a connection in chrome (stop waiting)
+ Finance dept:
    - Find news for company x in a range of dates
+ Security dept:
    * Honeypot for bash bug
    ! Web-based scanner
+ How do they do that dept:
    - Trigger a popup when text is selected with CTRL-A
+ Mobile dept:
    $* Control linux desktop with phone keyboard
+ Having friends dept:
    - Add threads to group chats / irc
    * Add fb notifications to bitlbee