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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2009 - The Re-Vengeance
« Reply #325 on: March 31, 2009, 03:13:33 AM »
www.donkdj.com helped me accidentally make all forms of dance music obsolete (as well as terrible, but that had nothing to do with me). Basically, you upload an MP3, pick a few minor options, and it spits out a dance remix.
Hmm, I tried Caramell Dancing (don't click that unless you don't value your sanity and/or you are a little girl).   It...reduced the overall hyperness (because it insisted on stylistic skipping, which is slower than the actual song >_>), and the only difference otherwise was the addition of a very simple repeated "donk" sound in places.
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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2009 - The Re-Vengeance
« Reply #326 on: March 31, 2009, 08:21:13 AM »
Meh, I have heard worse Happy Hard than that met.  Standard J-Pop stuff is pretty sachrine, but there is far more silly and sugar filled.  I mean you could easily double the BPM there!
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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2009 - The Re-Vengeance
« Reply #327 on: March 31, 2009, 08:33:09 AM »
www.donkdj.com helped me accidentally make all forms of dance music obsolete (as well as terrible, but that had nothing to do with me). Basically, you upload an MP3, pick a few minor options, and it spits out a dance remix.
Hmm, I tried Caramell Dancing (don't click that unless you don't value your sanity and/or you are a little girl).   It...reduced the overall hyperness (because it insisted on stylistic skipping, which is slower than the actual song >_>), and the only difference otherwise was the addition of a very simple repeated "donk" sound in places.

I think that's part of the joke. Throw in skips, set the BPM to a certain number, and THROW SOME DONK ON IT. Congratulations you are the best DJ ever.
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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2009 - The Re-Vengeance
« Reply #328 on: March 31, 2009, 04:55:53 PM »
Standard J-Pop stuff is pretty sachrine
Except it's made in Sweeden not Japan, so dunno if it counts as J-Pop.

More to the point, it's the video much moreso than the song that is deliciously over the top.

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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2009 - The Re-Vengeance
« Reply #329 on: March 31, 2009, 05:59:27 PM »
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123680870885500701.html

anti-mosquito lasers.  hawt.

http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2008/11/23/mankinds_new_best_friend/

giant rats used as land-mine and tuberculosis detectors.  hawt.
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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2009 - The Re-Vengeance
« Reply #330 on: March 31, 2009, 08:11:08 PM »
The lasers seem pretty impractical, but the rats are pretty damn cool and cost effective. Wonder how practical it'd be on a larger scale than what they article cites.
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« Reply #331 on: March 31, 2009, 08:39:44 PM »
The lasers seem pretty impractical

They really do, but you never know.  I was just thinking this morning about how bizarre it is to heat food by bombarding it with microwaves.  I mean, it's not strange that such a thing is possible, but for a device for doing so to be ubiquitous in American kitchens is a bit odd.
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« Reply #332 on: March 31, 2009, 10:29:17 PM »
Yeah, microwaves are lasers too--they're just lasers at a very specific frequency which happens to be ideal for heating up water.  If what you're trying to heat up is not liquid water, then they fail horribly (see, for instance: ice cubes.  Microwaves don't do a thing to ice cubes...unless they've already started melting, then the melted liquid part will get hot).

So yeah, if there's some frequency that kicks the crap out of the Anopheles Quadrimaculatus (by far the most common transmitter of malaria) then it could be efficient.  What bothers me more about the article is how much they seem to be planning to bully nature--the plans there indicate that they're trying to either make AQ and similar breeds go extinct, or planning to release genetically modified versions to destroy the current gene pool.  I mean, accidentally killing/altering an entire animal species happens by accident more often than humans would like, but doing so intentionally makes me a little uneasy.

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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2009 - The Re-Vengeance
« Reply #333 on: March 31, 2009, 10:36:20 PM »
J-pop is J-pop no matter the language.
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« Reply #334 on: March 31, 2009, 10:45:05 PM »
That'd be some of my general eh whatever response to the story. A lot of it was just general mosquisto busting skills.  I have no qualms about wiping out that breed, the health benefit for humanity would be tremendous. Killing parasites like that is good, long as you're not doing an incredible amount of environmental damage.

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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2009 - The Re-Vengeance
« Reply #335 on: April 01, 2009, 08:28:35 AM »
Go watch Lion King or some shit.  Mosquitoes are annoying as fuck, but they do have a place in the ecosphere.  Flies now, they can fuck right off.
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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2009 - The Re-Vengeance
« Reply #336 on: April 01, 2009, 02:50:55 PM »
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090331/world/indonesia_crime_murder_entertainment

Just in case you had some faith in humanity or something.
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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2009 - The Re-Vengeance
« Reply #337 on: April 01, 2009, 06:51:26 PM »
http://vimeo.com/3718294
(video) poor use of voice changing software.

http://vimeo.com/3881989
(video) Air Guitar championships.

http://kotaku.com/5191458/xna-games-dont-sell-dont-make-money-%5Bupdate%5D
Know how 360 touted its great community-made games?  Well they're a bit of a bust; people I know who've gone looking for them complain they're very hard to find.

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/5858/yuri-suzuki-the-physical-value-of-sound-exhibition-at-clear-gallery-tokyo.html
Interesting sound art exhibit.

http://vimeo.com/3156959
(video) another tilt-shift video (lens that makes big things look small).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2ZFA4me4iw
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« Reply #339 on: April 01, 2009, 11:52:16 PM »
Someone should totally forward that to Chavez and see if he bites anyway.
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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2009 - The Re-Vengeance
« Reply #342 on: April 04, 2009, 02:59:34 AM »
Link too long

Gigantic fucking sea worm eats most of coral reef in aquarium tank, nearly evades capture

Don't think of it as a novel. Think of it as a chance to retroactively win every argument you have ever walked away from.

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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2009 - The Re-Vengeance
« Reply #343 on: April 04, 2009, 05:28:12 PM »
The BattleTech/Shadowrun April Fools', though I apparently missed it on the actual day. They created a BT/SR crossover sourcebook simply entitled "THE BEST EVER." It begins with a section about the history of this fictional universe, which immediately ends by saying they can't be expected to fill you in if you didn't pay attention in history class.

And guess what? It's a free download.

http://www.battlecorps.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=2259

The section on Lyrans sounds like I was dictating, or so I have been told.

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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2009 - The Re-Vengeance
« Reply #344 on: April 04, 2009, 08:31:00 PM »
Link too long

Gigantic fucking sea worm eats most of coral reef in aquarium tank, nearly evades capture

Jesus, that thing's hideous.

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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2009 - The Re-Vengeance
« Reply #345 on: April 07, 2009, 01:45:52 AM »
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7979113.stm
Robot forms a hypothesis and tests a scientific theory independent of human creator

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5P8lrgBtcU
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--N9klJXbjQ
(video) Where the Wild Things Are Trailer.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/47529.html
(video) This is so going down as one of the top 10 best trailers of all time.

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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2009 - The Re-Vengeance
« Reply #346 on: April 07, 2009, 02:28:42 AM »
Link too long

Gigantic fucking sea worm eats most of coral reef in aquarium tank, nearly evades capture

Jesus, that thing's hideous.

Haha, I printed a picture of that and put it on my roommate's pillow a couple days ago.  Also saved it as her desktop.  (She hates slimy things.)

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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2009 - The Re-Vengeance
« Reply #347 on: April 07, 2009, 01:47:17 PM »
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/24/surveillance_feedback_loop/

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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2009 - The Re-Vengeance
« Reply #348 on: April 07, 2009, 10:20:54 PM »
Did you enjoy Da Ali G Show? Remember his extremely gay character, Bruno?

http://www.thebrunomovie.com/bruno-movie/bruno-movie-trailer-2/

I think my favorite part is the picture of him holding his baby, covered in bees.

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« Reply #349 on: April 08, 2009, 12:42:07 AM »
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/47529.html
(video) This is so going down as one of the top 10 best trailers of all time.

That's absolutely fantastic.  I can't imagine how they did it with straight faces...
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