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Listen [MP3], then read the 365 Days Project post about this strange (now somewhat semi-cult) song, by the Baton Rouge band with the odd name and memorable pants.

Maybe they just cut the tape up, threw it in the air and glued it back together again. Whatever, it’s supremely ‘out there’…

From WFMU’s Beware of the Blog. [mp3s] Yep. It’s a Yodel extravaganza. But iffen y’all wants more, here’s a youtube video of an 11-year-old yodelling sensation. [warning: pretty cute.]

Goody Hair Baubles as Cable Ties in Short Supply? [Google Groups post]

Not having Goody products in Greece, we make our own - and are always on the lookout for those hard-to-find proper-sized beads. So if any of you USians (or UKians) happen across some Goody Twin Bead Hair Baubles (large) and want to send us some, well, that would be much, much better than a poke in the eye. Click the image above to see some photos of the Goody beads in action.

A machinist and a mixing engineer conspire to build the perfect sound cart. Do they achieve their goal? Here it is in its most recent incarnation.

More info on the tools page.

Nice! Images and narration of Munich’s unlikely surf scene.

this link will open in a new window, because the site will resize your browser. Bad, bad theatlantic.com!

funniest cat ever.

AvionArt has a desk made from a salvaged and restored DC-3 Dakota Wingtip (click image for big, big pic). If you have to ask, yeah - you probably can’t afford it, but we’ve seen it priced variously at $20,000 and €20,000.

An Insider’s Look at the Grateful Dead’s Wall of Sound [audiojunkies]

(click pic for large image)

PPRuNe Forums - Professional Pilots Rumour Network is an aviation board for airline pilots. You’ll find not only interesting tidbits about the industry but some rather harrowing gossip about all the things that can and do go wrong aboard commercial airliners.

Terminology, classifications, components and concepts from filmsound.org. A short collection from various sources.

Fantastic example of this optic phenomenon here. Stare at the small black dot in the middle for 30 seconds, then mouse-over the image, and though the new image is black and white, you will see it in completely convincing color. A different sort of example and explanation at omnivision.

America’s Top 40 host (Real Media) grapples with the emotional issue of death… and goddamn uptempo records. Outtake from fadetoblack.com.

complete with diagrams.

A copy of the Mona Lisa made from hundreds of computer parts at a high tech exhibition in Beijing this month. (via AP Photo)

How do we know? “Dutch researchers … scanned a reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece and subjected it to cutting-edge “emotion recognition'’ software, developed in collaboration with the University of Illinois.

The result showed the painting’s famous subject was 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful and 2 percent angry. She was less than 1 percent neutral, and not at all surprised”

A timeline, from 1877 to 2005.

Some less than successful audio projects.

“I like to say that the THX sound is the most widely-recognized piece of computer-generated music in the world”

All about the THX Sound, at Music Thing.

(By the way, did you know that “Deep Note” is also the name of a 1970s porn soundtrack album? Deep Note: Music of 1970’s Adult Cinema amazon link)

Finding interesting video, sound and image files in unprotected directories.

Japanese Sound effects and what they mean.

Damn skeeters. Kill. Kill.

How-To: Build yourself a front projection home theater.

Then zoom some more! Just amazing. Bet you can’t stop zooming.

Free anti-malware utility.

Climbing robot:

“RiSE is a small six-legged robot that climbs vertical terrain such as walls, trees and fences.”
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Great, great face in a sink from moonbird. For more fun, felicitous face photos, see Flickr’s “Found Faces” group pool. This one is great, and so is this. And this. Too many to list… just go have a look.

Geotagged sounds on freesound.

Irish Luck - Surviving Partial Ejection from A-6 Aircraft, is the incredible story of bombardier/navigator Lt. Keith Gallagher who managed to land his jet on an aircraft carrier while stuck halfway outside the canopy.

Scientists awed by `human calendar‘: The woman is identified only as AJ. Her unique ability to perfectly and instantly recall details of her past has led researchers to propose a name for her condition: “hyperthymestic syndrome,” based on the Greek word thymesis for “remembering,” and hyper, meaning “more than normal.”

Fuckin’ Greeks. This page has a listing of sites that offer movie sound files (mostly wav format).

Best explanation of the Loch Ness mystery yet.

Indian scientists have claimed that they may be able to give warning several hours before certain quakes larger than five on the Richter scale using an acoustic meteorological technique called Sonic Detection and Ranging (sodar).

Astronomers report an unprecedented elongated double helix nebula near the center of our Milky Way galaxy. (see large image).

Which one is the horse’s ass? (12 second wmv)

Pick up those pesky invaders and fling them in the air to defend your castle and earn points to make repairs and expand your fiefdom. Simple, silly, fun.

These tips by filmmaker David Sington are part of a Nova special on solar neutrinos (The Ghost Particle). Sington, a veteran of more than two dozen science documentaries, believes there are some simple rules for making any movie, even ones that deal with difficult subjects like high-level science.

John McColgan, a fire behavior analyst for the Bureau of Land Management in Alaska, snapped this photo of two elk standing in a river during a huge forest fire in Bitterroot National Forest in Montana in August, 2000. (large image here, from this page of nature wallpapers.)

A Canadian goose is sucked in by an Airforce Hawk jet trainer during a NATO flight school training session, forcing the pilot and student to eject and destroying the aircraft - all captured on video. Download a .wmv file here, or view the google video version.

Here’s an official crash report (with “after” photo).