Chatroulette
March 5th, 2010
Old Spice
March 4th, 2010
New TRON Legacy trailer shown at Super Secret Event
March 2nd, 2010
Tron Legacy trailer secret event
I am really hoping this is good. I don’t think Disney is going to take this all the way to the Heart of Darkness but all the elements are there.
Worst Song
February 26th, 2010
As discussed at lunch…
From This American Life episode “Numbers”:
Alex Melamid and Vitaly Komar hired a polling firm to investigate what people want to see in paintings. Then, using the data, they painted what people want. It turned out to be a landscape, with a mountain and a lake, and deer, and a family, and George Washington.
Then they applied these techniques to music, with composer David Soldier. This “most wanted” version combines the elements the 500 people surveyed said they wanted most — love, soprano sax, humble ambition, tenor sax, a marriage proposal, cheesy electronic drum fills, working the night shift, string swells, power chords, and saccharine male/female harmonies — into an easy listening-style adult contemporary sound that could peel the paint off of the Space Shuttle
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/listening_post/files/KomarMelamid_The-Most-Wanted-Song.mp3
(For the worst song) Komar & Melamid and David Soldier’s list of undesirable elements included holiday music, bagpipes, pipe organ, a children’s chorus and the concept of children in general (really?), Wal-Mart, cowboys, political jingoism, George Stephanopoulos, Coca Cola, bossanova synths, banjo ferocity, harp glissandos, oompah-ing tubas and much, much more.
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/listening_post/files/KomarMelamid_The-Most-UnwantedSong.mp3
The most unwanted song is 25 minutes long but is hilarious!
The whole article can be heard here and is part of act 2 http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=88
The United States of Facebook
February 12th, 2010
Peter Warden has done a bit of analysis on 210 public Facebook profiles to determine how we are connected to each other, and come up with a map of the United States of Facebook:
Peter’s discussion is here
The USDA makes its ADAL debut
February 12th, 2010
The USDA released a “Food Atlas” tool earlier this week. For those of us who love maps and data it’s some pretty good stuff:
That’s What She Said
February 4th, 2010
ok, the “put the doggy in the bathtub” line, pretty much put me on the floor.
WARNING: Some language, NSFW
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