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Museum Of Endangered Sounds

1 Comment | analog, electronics, gadgets, nostalgia, reference, sound, technology

I love the idea of saving sounds from extinction. Marybeth Ledesma, Phil Hadad and Greg Elwood (under the guise of Brendan Chilcutt) have created and curated the online Museum Of Endangered Sounds. It’s an audio archive of yesteryear’s gadgets and electronics. Without the museum the sounds of analog cameras, dot matrix printers, dial-up modems, Speak & Spells, and floppy disks would have died a silent death. But now I have them archived for my own nostalgic musing. We would have failed as a generation if we didn’t try to preserve and then force our past on the youth of today. Long live Museum Of Endangered Sounds.

(via Alan Cooper)

Definitive List Of Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet Part 2012

1 Comment | fun, funny, internet, lists

Greg Rutter does it again with his “Definitive List Of The Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet In 2012 Unless You’re A Loser Or Old Or Something” list. His other two previous lists can be found here and here. Always an entertaining way to burn an afternoon or two.

01) Best Marriage Proposal Ever
02) Bob Ross Remixed
03) Gangnum Style
04) Mr. Wizard’s A Dick
05) Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee
06) Dog Shamin
07) Texts From Hillary
08) Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe”
09) Shark Surprise
10) San Diego’s 15 Second Fireworks Spectacular
11) Game Of Thrones Light Saber Battle
12) Krispy Kreme
13) A Conversation With My 12-Year-Old Self
14) All 135 Space Shuttle Launches At Once
15) Ew! With Jimmy Fallon And Channing Tatum
16) Stumbling Subway Stairs
17) Soliders Perform Haka Dance For Fallen Comrade
18) Video for Briona
19) GloZell Attempts Cinnamon Challenge
20) Mckayla Is Not Impressed
21) Tupac Hologram At Cochella
22) Walk Off The Earth Covers Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used To Know”
23) Bestie Boys Sabatoge Tribute
24) Michelle Jenneke
25) Kony 2012
26) Celebrities Read Tweets About Themselves
27) Excited Train Guy
28) Ignore Hitler
29) Dollar Shave Club
30) Real Actors Read Yelp Reviews
31) NASA Lands Curiosity On Mars
32) New York Park
33) Hot Cheetos And Takis
34) Golden Eagle Snatches Kid
35) Bad Lip Reading Of Debate Highlights
36) Melodica Cover Of Jurassic Park Theme
37) Dumb Ways To Die
38) JB Fanvideo (Overly Attached Girlfriend)
39) Five Guys Burger Review
40) Auto-tuned Five Guys Burger Review
41) Tan Mom Arrested
42) Rich Kids Of Instagram
43) Pussy Riot
44) My Sister Paid Progressive Insurance to Defend Her Killer In Court
45) Pointer Pointer
46) John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John’s “I Think You Might Like It”
47) Dragon Baby
48) Binders Full Of Women
49) Bus Monitor Bullied
50) Sofia The Lion Tamer
51) Vennu Mallesh’s “It’s My Life”
52) Embarrassing Dad At Electric Music Festival
53) Botched Restoration Of Ecce Homo Fresco
54) Drunk Man Sings Kiss From A Rose To His Cat
55) Insane Dodge Ball Kill
56) Bottles Beware
57) The Greatest Event In Television History
58) Red Bull Stratos
59) Henry Thomas’s Audition For E.T.
60) Cannonball Into A Frozen Pool
61) DMX Sings “Rudolf The Red Nosed Raindeer”
62) Mariah Carey, Jimmy Fallon and The Roots “All I Want For Christmas”
63) Modern Sienfeld
64) Ikea Monkey
65) Little Baby’s Ice Cream
66) Sweet Brown “Ain’t Nobody Got Time For Bronchitis”

Only 66 things this time and nothing hidden in the source code.

Audioscrobbling Turns 10

Leave a Comment | applications, internet, interview, music

Today audioscrobbling turns ten years old. Wired has a nice interview with Richard Jones, audiscrobbling’s inventor, that discusses his inspiration, success and future plans.

I started scrobbling songs in 2006 shortly after the merge with Last.fm. As of today I have scrobbled 22,861 songs. You can see annual overviews (complete with visualizations and top 10 lists) of my scrobbles for 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, and 2006.

Barack Goes Down?

Leave a Comment | barack obama, facebook, politics, social media

In fairness, I suppose it is only appropriate that I also show the Facebook changes to the recent election winner and not just the loser.

Here’s a real-time look at the total number of likes on Barack Obama’s on Facebook. The number in parentheses at the end of each line is the difference since you first loaded the page (updated every 10 seconds). It tells quite a different story.
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What’s Not To Like?

Leave a Comment | chrome extension, code, download, facebook, fun

I definitely like this:

I Like What I See is a Chrome extension to automatically click all “Like” links on Facebook. When you visit Facebook, click the thumbs up in the extension bar and start scrolling and liking. Liking and scrolling. Every instance of the word “Like” will be clicked. Don’t worry, Facebook is a fun place full of all of the stuff you like.

I liked what I saw when I saw Steven Klise’s “I Like what I See” Chrome extension. You might like it to, so I packaged it up for your easy consumption.

First click here to download the extension.
Open your Chrome Extension Manager (by typing chrome://extensions into your address bar)
Drag the file you downloaded in step one onto your extension page.
Click Add

Brooke Shields And Punk Rock

5 Comments | Bad Brains, Brook Shields, disappointment, internet, interview, marijuana, mp3, music, photo, punk, youtube

This photo of H.R., lead singer of Bad Brains, smoking weed with a supposed Brooke Shields has been circling the internet like crazy the last couple of days.

Photo Courtesy of @davehill77

Although it would be incredible if this really happened, I’m sorry to say I’m 99.9% sure that isn’t really Brooke Shields. Which is too bad because it would have been the best picture ever if it was. However, don’t be too let down, Brooke actually has some strong punk rock roots. First off, Brooke did have an actual photo shoot with punk originator Stiv Bators, lead singer of the Dead Boys.

The above interview from Efrom Allen’s Underground TV was taken during the photo shoot with Stiv Bators. It aired on Manhattan Cable’s public access channel in the 1970s. The 12-year-old Brooke Shields actually gets a little flirty with the American punk rock innovator.

Furthering her punk rock roots, Shields opens up Agent Orange’s song ‘Bloodstain’ for the ‘Rondey On The ROQ Volume 1’ compilation. The album also includes rougher versions songs from the Circle Jerks, U.X.A., Black Flag, and Circle Jerks. Have a listen: Agent Orange – Bloodstains

Photo courtesy of astralsilence

c”,)

1 Comment | emoticon, internet

Has anybody else seen this emoticon showing up around the internet? If you can’t tell what’s happening, the c is the nose, the ” is the eyes, the , is the mouth and the ) is the back of the head câ€,) Other variations include:
cÂ°.)
cÂ¨.)
c”_)
and combinations thereof. I find this fascinating because they are a full side view, a third aspect for smileys, different from the US/European sideways .:-) style and the face-on Japanese style (^_^). The folks over at metafilter seem to think they are possibly Nordic or Latin in origin. Regardless, it’s a reminder of the constant evolving world of the emoticon.

Sriracha Rooster Drawn Entirely In HTML5 Canvas

1 Comment | code, images, internet, sriracha

The Sriracha Rooster below is rendered entirely in browser. It’s not a gif, jpeg or other image format. I created it using the HTML5 Canvas element, Javascript, and a ton of code.

If you are using Internet Explorer you will have to be updated to version 9 in order to see the image element to work. View the page source code to see exactly how I did it.

RobotHash

Leave a Comment | artifacting, internet, robot, web service

Robohash is a web service that makes it easy to provide unique, robot images using any text input.
Put in any text, such as IP address, email, filename, userid, or whatever else you like, and get back a unique robot for your site. Above is the unique robot created for Artifacting.