Archive for November 10th, 2005
On Kaufman’s Lab, there is a how-to about Converting a vintage cassette recorder into an external Hard Drive. Now you data is safe unless someone throws out the old piece of junk tape recorder. This project makes me think of an idea I had about the faceplates on car stereos. Now, this probably has been done by someone already, but a company should make ‘dummy’ faceplates for CD head units that look like a cassette tape deck, or an 8 track player. So when you leave your car, your car looks like it has a seriously ghetto stereo. While I don’t think your average Escalade owner would want to bother doing this, it could well prevent break-ins for more standard looking autos.
November 10th, 2005
From Gizmodo - Shower-Shower Showers Showers: “If you install too many of these, you could feasibly cause the fabric of the universe to collapse. You see, this is a shower shower. It showers your shower, cleaning it after your shower. So if you showered the shower shower, and then showered the first shower shower then you’ve basically got a shower shower shower ad infinitum, leading to a rift in the space-time continuum which may require you to install new tile after a gate to Hell opens on your floor.
BONUS: Look at her rapture, her palpable joy. She presses the button and she showers the shower. What an age in which we live!”
November 10th, 2005
After seeing the stop-motion video for the song featuring the Prodigy’s retro lyric, I mistakenly thought the lyrical snippet was from an old Altern-8 track. Well, I was wrong. But not a day later I randomly come across the track by Tiga - “You Gonna Want Me” on an MOS Annual 2006 compilation - and whaddya know! This one does use a lyrical bit from an Altern-8 track! I don’t think this is just a coincidence. Tiga seems to be on the bleeding edge of several trends, many of them emanating from the UK. Mash-ups. Using rock band vocalists for dance tracks (You Gonna Want Me has the guy from Scissor Sisters crooning on it) and last but not least, sourcing tunes and lyrics from the origins of dance music (late 80s, early 90s acid-house & hardcore) Put this all together, and you end up with weird coincidences like I just experienced. However, if I was really on my game, this all would have been old news. I’m so uncool. The video is pretty interesting though, and is by the brother of Michel Gondry, Oliver ‘Twist’ Gondry.
November 10th, 2005
On Kaufman’s Lab, there is a how-to about Converting a vintage cassette recorder into an external Hard Drive. Now you data is safe unless someone throws out the old piece of junk tape recorder. This project makes me think of an idea I had about the faceplates on car stereos. Now, this probably has been done by someone already, but a company should make ‘dummy’ faceplates for CD head units that look like a cassette tape deck, or an 8 track player. So when you leave your car, your car looks like it has a seriously ghetto stereo. While I don’t think your average Escalade owner would want to bother doing this, it could well prevent break-ins for more standard looking autos.