Software Roundup

A longer game roundup coming soon. Here are three interesting non-game programs I saw on Freshmeat:

Bright Noise, a counter-Tempest program for the terminal. Has the side effect of making your terminal look like a pointless special effect out of a movie, which raises the intruiging conjecture that many of those pointless special effects are actually counter-Tempest measures (think about it; can you ever make anything out on those screens?).
soundmosaic is the aural equivalent of a photomosaic program. It doesn't work as well with sound, because sound has a time dimension, but it's a cool idea.
Diet Monger Ass Kicker is a nice-looking interface to the USDA nutrition database. I actually think the nutrition database is the star of this entry, and that DMAK is only along for the ride because of its cool name. DMAK is written in a programming language called Euphoria, which I'd never heard of before.

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