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Here's a neat gadget sold in Europe that knows the location of all speed cameras in Europe and alerts you when you're entering a speed zone going too fast.
Ever wonder how babies are made? Ever scramble to explain it to your kids?
Here's an idea that solves so many problems. The printer uses coffee and tea dregs which the user places into the 'ink' case on top of the printer. Since you move the ink case back and forth to print, the device doesn't even need electricity.
Here's a collection of 100 videos that have been popular at one time or another on the internet.
Public transportation doesn't have to be ugly, as is shown by these European tram lines, paved with green grass.
A Baptist pastor is brutally man-handled (putting it mildly) in Arizona for insisting on his 4th Amendment rights.
In 2001, Portugal tried something novel - they decriminalized the use and possession of marijuana and other illicit street drugs. Their theory - treatment and prevention instead of jail time for users would decrease the number of deaths and infections. Dealers are still jailed and fined depending on the crime.
Time for another round of 'What Is It?'.
I'm glad we have people like Michael Geist, who take the propaganda put out by the Canadian music industry and analyze it line by line. Before you hear politicians use this stuff as talking points, read between the lines and see why the picture the CRIA paints about the state of the music industry isn't exactly accurate.
This should boggle your mind - a faked Improv Everywhere video (for April Fool's) on YouTube was used by a TV Newscast as fact, which was posted on YouTube by an amused (that the News fell for it) Improv Everywhere group. You with me so far?
When I read the story about the guy who got paid to get this other guy's wife pregnant but failed after 72 attempts, the wheels started turning.
This is a sign that was photographed in Split, Croatia. Wonder what it means?
Prepare to waste a bit of time (I use the term 'waste' loosely). I found a new audio toy to play with. It's called tone matrix - it's a simple sequencer. Use your mouse to draw a pattern. Any click on a square selects or de-selects it. When you're done for the moment and you want to share, right-click on the grid and choose copy.If you feel you've created something worth sharing, leave a comment on my blog with your pasted code. For example, here's the code for my first musical creation:
546,0,168,16448,170,272,2088,2112,514,0,384,49152,8192,4112,36864,0
You can select and copy those numbers and then right-click on the grid to paste them to the grid.
This game seems to be getting popular, so it may not connect every time.
Here's a fascinating article about people who are blind that have learned to use echo-location to get around. Sample:I am certainly not the first person to teach myself echolocation. In fact, human sonar has probably been around for as long as humans. There are two types of sonar: passive and active. Passive sonar exploits sounds made for other purposes to get a sense of the environment, and everyone does it to some extent. We can hear our voice change depending on the kind of space we are in, for instance.
Humans probably used to rely on echolocation far more in the days before artificial lighting, when we had to find our way round in the dark. The readiness with which people learn sonar suggests to me it may be an inbuilt skill.
This is a skill that can be taught. Very neat.
Artist Peter Funch took many photographs at the same spots and took the subjects captured in those many exposures and photoshopped them together into one image. Each new image has subtle and not-so-subtle themes about their subject matter.
It's funny how advertising can make or break a song based on how often you come across it and whether it leaves a positive or negative impression upon you.
Looks like another 'Improv Anywhere'-esque dance performance - this time in the train station in Antwerp.
Here are some more fun t-shirt designs that I like a lot. I'm especially partial to the first one.
I know it's just an ad, but it is an interesting ad nonetheless.
I was in a lineup at a bank machine the other day, waiting to deposit a cheque, when I had an epiphany. Some day, cheques are going to have sophisticated 3 dimensional bar codes printed on them. If anyone sends you a cheque, all you'll have to do is take a picture of the bar code with your cell phone camera, then send the photo to your bank web site as a feature of online banking. The money will be instantly deposited in your account and you get to keep the cheque as a receipt. The bar code will be generated by a bank web site - in other words all cheques will be printed from your home printer.
I think one could find at least 3 things wrong with this picture.
Here's a challenge. Follow this link, but once the page opens, try not to look at the screen, because it will spoil the effect (you'll see what the song title is). Just listen to the song and try to figure out what it is, because it sounds nothing like the original.
Here's a fun little Java online game called ball droppings. I know it sounds crude, but it's kinda fun. Balls drop, you draw lines to deflect the balls and music is made.
I decided to have a little fun with an online photo editing site (photofunia).
This was news in Canada, but not likely elsewhere. Billy Bob Thornton and his band The Boxmasters came on a CBC radio show (Q with Jian Ghomeshi) this week and Billy was...... not exactly cooperative.
