http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8CaC4RMwsM
Reel Wisdom: Lessons from 40 films in 7 minutes.
Derek Stettler says: “I made this video because I love films and I think there is great wisdom inherent in the film medium. This video represents some of the best wisdom from films, edited together as a single coherent piece of advice on everything from life, death, and purpose, to anger, regret, and destiny.”
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“Here’s Blue Tip from the forthcoming May 2011 album release, Move Like This,” the original band lineup’s first new track in 24 years(!). I think it’s a pretty decent song, with a sound just dated enough for me to enjoy… 🙂
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Bach’s Toccata & Fugue played on four floppy disk drives is surprisingly well-done and decidedly geeky:
People have made floppy drives sing before, but this is my personal take on it.
Features two 3 ½" drives and two 5 ¼" drives connected to a PIC18f14k50 microcontroller. It interfaces to any MIDI source via MIDI over USB. Straight MIDI would also be possible with an additional small circuit and some minor firmware changes. This initial version can respond to all 128 MIDI notes, and pitch bends +/- 2 semitones.
As it can produce only four simultaneous notes, and each drive has a different range and tonal characteristics, best results are obtained by arranging compositions by hand. However, it features two modes of operation: in one mode, MIDI channels 1 through 4 are played directly on floppy drives 1 through 4. In the other mode, all 16 MIDI channels are read, and notes are “intelligently” divvied out on a first-come, first-serve basis. “Note stealing” ensures that melody lines sound, but chords are often cut short. One or the other produces acceptable results for many unmodified MIDI files straight out of your favorite media player.
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Vacuum has friction after all
A ball spinning in a vacuum should never slow down, since no outside forces are acting on it. At least that’s what Newton would have said. But what if the vacuum itself creates a type of friction that puts the brakes on spinning objects? The effect, which might soon be detectable, could act on interstellar dust grains.
In quantum mechanics, the uncertainty principle says we can never be sure that an apparent vacuum is truly empty. Instead, space is fizzing with photons that are constantly popping into and out of existence before they can be measured directly. Even though they appear only fleetingly, these “virtual” photons exert the same electromagnetic forces on the objects they encounter as normal photons do.
The Black Keys made an awesome movie trailer instead of a conventional video for their single Howlin’ For You:
Tricia Helfer, the hottest Cylon this side of Kobol, stars alongside Sean Patrick Flannery, Corbin Bernsen, Diora Baird, Christian Serratos, Sir Todd Bridges, Shaun White, oh, and some random dudes named Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach, in Chris Marrs Piliero’s trailer for The Black Keys’ Howlin’ For You.
[via The Daily What]
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