Squeak help needed - Tim Rowledge is looking for programmers that can help with getting some of the features from the original Mac version of Smalltalk into his RISC OS port of Squeak. Features currently missing are mainly to do with sound, including MIDI playback, and serial port access. A lot of good educational resources are available for Squeak, so here's your chance to step up to the plate, as they say in America...
Link: Squeak

Graphical effects - I've just been told that Rob Davison, he of Compo fame, has released an early version of his new bitmap effects prog Variations to download. It seems to work very much like texture explorers - one main image in the middle, with eight variations ringing it - and offers some cool filters from saturation to funky shaded masks. Update: a slightly newer version is now hosted on his TIB subdomain due to various problems on some of his other sites.
Link: Variations

ArtWorks transparency preview - Martin's got a page up here showing how transparency will work when his new Crystal module is released later this month. Mmm... More on this when it's released.
Link: Crystal

Old Computers - And after updating my own computer museum, a posting on Slashdot about the old Domesday Project being unreadable after only 15 years (The Domesday Project used BBC Masters using a custom laserdisc system to produce a wealth of information about the UK in 1986, the modern equivalent of the account taken after William I moved into his new home) lead me on a tour of other obsolete hardware museums with Acorn kit in them. These include Binary Dinosaurs, The Machine Room/Tardis, Old-Computers.com, Heimcomputer, Kevan's Computer Collection and many more.