Archive for December 3rd, 2005
For someone that never eats at Wendy’s, they sure do take up much of my brain-space. I visited the Good to be a Square site and thought it was pretty fun. Of course, as it turns out I’m about 6 months behind the rest of the world in seeing the viral marketing distributed Square movie. It’s not my fault though, the Square ad campaign only recently reached me! I think the “Square’s School of Music” is good for a few minutes of fun. Now, in conection to my other post about Wendy’s slyness - I just noticed a line in the Square song that takes a direct stab at Burger King and McDonalds :
It takes flair to be a square
to walk around with no hair
I’m bold, yes I swear
to be the only single square
because it’s better than being round or being a king or a clown
it takes flair to be square
to be hardcore enough to dare
to be made the way you like
to be juicy
to be fresh
to be BEEFY
is the best
December 3rd, 2005
CNN.com - Has tallest tower caused more quakes? TAIPEI, Taiwan (Reuters) — Seismic activity in Taipei has increased since the world’s tallest building, Taipei 101, was built, raising questions over whether the Taiwan capital has become more vulnerable to earthquakes, a geologist said on Friday.
Lin Cheng-horng, a geologist at the Institute of Earth Sciences at Taiwan’s most prestigious think tank, the Academia Sinica, said seismic activity historically had been low in the Taipei basin, home to about 7 million people.
But the city has experienced more micro-earthquakes (of magnitude 2.0-2.5 on the Richter scale) since construction began on the 508 meter (1,667 foot) skyscraper in 1997, he said.
December 3rd, 2005
Our perception of color is so subjective. This page on illusion and color perception has some really interesting examples of the effects of an overall image on a specific portion of an image. For example, the two middle squares in the image on the left are actually the same color, despite appearing otherwise. The fascinating thing is that the effect is accentuated the more colors surround the specific sample area - if you remove the upper and lower squares in the lefthand image, the effect is much dimished (view at site) Just goes to show how we can’t trust our eyes. If you’ve never made an object disappear in your eye’s blind spot, I highly recommend trying it out!
December 3rd, 2005
The breaks I spin really give me the uncontrollable urge to crossfade, tweak, and generally muck around with the mixer. So my initial reaction to my friend Rigpa’s laptop/mp3/midi rig was “UGH! How can I mix with that thing??” Well, OK, I admit the setup is pretty good - a midi controller setup to operate a software based mixer playing mp3s through two stereo channels of a pcmcia sound card. If you replaced the more traditional midi controller with a more DJ mixer style device, or better yet a DJ mixer that also sends midi commands, that would be sweet. Though I’m not really sure why you’d go to all this trouble instead of just popping CDs into a pair of CDJs. Well, it’s always fun to play around with technologies. Click here for my DJ Spyhunter site - lots of breaks mp3 tracks, downloads & mix sets.
December 3rd, 2005
Waiting for the ‘white man’ to let you cross the street sucks. When you walk a certain route a lot, you start to learn the tricks to certain intersections - when you can safely cross even though the light is against you. I wonder if there is a niche for gathering this kind of expertise/experience based data from pedestrians (perhaps drivers also?) and mapping it online. My thought is that it would be most effective as guerilla signage - publish a set of PDFs with RouteHints that people can print to stickers and paste up in good spots for others to navigate by. For example, “Cross After –>” would indicate it’s safe to cross once there are no more vehicles going through intersection from left to right. Of course, I would feel terrible if someone got hit by a car when using an incorrect posting, so I’m not gonna be the brave one to start this guerilla scheme….
December 3rd, 2005
My “Eighties Car” Fiero TShirt design is up up Threadless.com. Click here to vote for the design - there’s still a few days left! I really want a funky Fiero tee!
December 3rd, 2005
For someone that never eats at Wendy’s, they sure do take up much of my brain-space. I visited the Good to be a Square site and thought it was pretty fun. Of course, as it turns out I’m about 6 months behind the rest of the world in seeing the viral marketing distributed Square movie. It’s not my fault though, the Square ad campaign only recently reached me! I think the “Square’s School of Music” is good for a few minutes of fun. Now, in conection to my other post about Wendy’s slyness - I just noticed a line in the Square song that takes a direct stab at Burger King and McDonalds :
