Archive for January 10th, 2006
Was watching a new ep of Dirty Jobs today with close captions turned on. I still am not sure why I always watch tv with captions on - I think it has to do with Law & Order: Criminal Intent being really quiet compared to the ads. Anyhoo, it became clear during the episode that the captions were being typed live, since they started and stopped like live shows do and I would at times notice incorrectly typed captions being erased and re-typed. I wonder why they don’t just pre-caption it? I had a good laugh when host Mike Rowe said some cowboy gibberish like ‘yippie kai-yai-yay’ and the captioning just kinda paused after writing ‘yippi’ … then a few seconds later, wrote ‘kiyayay’ after a false-starts.
This is about as funny as a transcript for a CSI episode where a tape recording is backwards, transcribed as “narl loop sair momoph reet reet seer pute narfenging …” yuh huh.
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January 10th, 2006
Jason Salavon created ‘Figure 1. Every Playboy Centerfold, 1988-1997′ by digitally averaging the visual pixels from every Playboy centerfold fold-out image for the 10 years beginning January 1988 through December 1997. the shroud-like image is yielded by a simple, custom process: point-by-point mathematical averaging. See also Google Averaging.
January 10th, 2006
Reebok now gives you the opportunity to customize your kicks. Similar to puma’s mongolian show bbq idea, but with a nice interactive shoe builder instead of a ’shoe tray.’ Give me instant gratification any day! With the &80 base price, this is a pretty awesome custom deal!
January 10th, 2006
ZAP cars makes weird electric cars with 3 wheels. I’d rather go for a regular car that they converted to electric power - and this Fiero should do the trick for a Fiero nut like me. But while the top speed of 80mph and 40 mile range isn’t bad at all, the $9000 price tag is a bit steep. Now if they’d converted a fastback instead of a notchback, I would rationalize that the car would pay for itself in saved gas money. (not) vrooooom
January 10th, 2006
As I mentioned in a recent post, my old Atari ST came with built in MIDI capability. This led to the Atari being a commonly used piece of kit for many music producers. And it also lead to creation of the Atari Hotz, a really big boxy piece of kit covered in touch pads that can be played like a keyboard, to trigger arps, or most interestingly, to control a special piece of Atari software. This’d be a sweet item to do live gigs with.
January 10th, 2006