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Wednesday, November 9, 2005 Adjust your meat hat and release the lizard. Some incredible japanese wackiness from the girl pop group Morning Musume. @ 08:56 PM CST [Link] Tuesday, November 8, 2005 Unintentially hilarious space.com article on how rockets and guitars are alike. Oh this has to be a joke or something. Did you know both guitars and spaceships resonate and have chambers? Geez, must be a slow space month or something. I think this is a paid Clint Black guerilla advertising thing. Consider this: A guitar is constructed from dozens of parts: tuning knobs, clamps, the sides and faces of the air chamber and, typically, six strings. The strings produce six fundamental frequencies: 82 Hz, 110 Hz, 147 Hz, 196 Hz, 247 Hz, 330 Hz corresponding to the open notes of E2, A2, D3, G3, B3, and E4. A typical rocket, on the other hand, is made of thousands of parts. The space shuttle famously contains more than a million components. All these pieces vibrating together produce a cacophony of frequencies ranging from subsonic waves that only an elephant could hear to high-pitched whines akin to fingers scratching a blackboard. @ 10:52 AM CST [Link] Nice list of google earth hotspots. Sorted by country no less. Also: Googlesightseeing.com @ 10:45 AM CST [Link] Chris Cunningham's PSP commercial. I think this is for England only. Still, very cool. @ 07:55 AM CST [Link] Sunday, November 6, 2005 Dear Pastors, when secretly selling your church, don't buy your trophy fiance a 100,000 BMW until you've left the country. I really don't understand this "man of cloth" nonsense. Men of the cloth are no different than any other men, except the Catholic ones don't, well, you know. He said investigators determined Radic used some of that money to buy a new BMW worth about $102,000. "People in the community saw his fiance'e drive the BMW," Ormonde said. Investigators learned Radic had sold the main building of the church, the land it was on and another small house on the property to unsuspecting buyers -- a Manteca couple -- for about $525,000, Ormonde said. The couple, who were planning to turn the property into an office building, are not in any trouble and are cooperating with authorities, the sergeant said. @ 03:40 PM CST [Link] Weirdness when dealing with big numbers. China has 1.5 billion people. Research into an unusually high prevalence of a particular set of genes in China has suggested that 1.5 million Chinese men are direct descendants of Giocangga, the grandfather of the founder of the Qing dynasty. @ 03:15 PM CST [Link] A stroll down web memory lane. Someone has compiled a list of top-100 web moments. Funny, I've forgotten most of this stuff, which was probably for the best. Seriously, I wonder if the best days of the web are far behind us. Blogs have gone mainstream, P2P users are getting sued, new exciting technologies and companies (come on, I'll just say it - google) are more hype than anything else, etc. Supposedly the next big thing was SOAP, and now AJAX. Of course, in retrospect denouncing a medium as being dead is incredibly silly. How many decades has rock been dead? Or the short story? Or the sitcom? If anything, the huge amount of players usually means that no one item like Mahir or Sissyfight will float to the top for so long. The larger the medium the more, but shorter lived, the fads. @ 03:13 PM CST [Link] [Archives] Search entries: