Max Shinn's Homepage

Software/Hacks I've written

WriteType helps young or disabled students write
BeepCompose is a collection of audio hacks to make computers flash and beep in sync to music you compose
The Hablator is a chat script
This rSchoolToday Wrapper fixes the broken and poorly-designed websites hosted by rSchoolToday

(All software listed here is available under the GNU GPLv3.)

A listing of the music I've written can be found at the music page. If Only - The Musical was a much bigger project, so it gets its own page.

The Free Software Foundation protects the digital freedom of software users and developers.
IMSLP is an awesome project to digitally recreate and share public domain sheet music.
Identi.ca is a distributed alternative to Twitter (with more features!)
The Zelazo Lab is a lab where I previously worked. (Psychology tasks for the Zelazo/Carlson labs)
MuseScore is is an awesome free software music composition program. I also build the GNU/Linux nightlies.
GNU Generation is an FSF project I started to involve high school students in free software.
This blog contains several of my older essays on software freedom.

The best way to contact me is by email. Carrier pigeon works too, though.