Your local burger joint is not immune to the enshitification. “Wendy’s will start experimenting with surge pricing, much like Uber and Lyft, as the company rolls out digital menus to all its United States restaurants by 2025, according to the company’s February earnings call. Under the test, burgers, Frosties, and other menu items will have “dynamic prices,” costing more during times of increased demand.”
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Zotify will allow you to download any liked songs, entire albums, artist catalogs, singles, podcasts or playlists from Spotify at up to 320kbps quality in multiple audio formats. Get it while it’s hot.
“The LightSound device was designed and developed in 2017 as a tool for the Blind and Low Vision (BLV) community to experience a solar eclipse with sound. As the Moon eclipses the Sun during a Solar Eclipse the sunlight begins to dim and the LightSound device will output a change in musical tone.” Brilliant!
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Eye Heart Brains V
The date for Denver’s fith annual Zombie Crawl has been announced for this Saturday, October 23rd at 2:00 PM. Meet at Downtown Denver’s Skyline Park (16th & Arapahoe) More detatils can be found on the website. Has this event been scaled back from last years event?
Moist Panties
A compendium to Wet Panties. Originally titled “A New Dynamic Clothing Model. Part 2: Parameters Of The Underclothing Microclimate”
Based on a new modeling, described in the first part of this paper, which takes into account the pumping effect under garments, the various parameters characterising the confined air, and managing its dry and latent losses, are determined. The mean temperature, calculated from heat exchanges with skin (or underwear) and with the garment, progresses exponentially as a function of the trapped time, until a limit. The mean humidity amount, determined from the energy of total evaporation, from the air layer renewal rate and from the water vapour diffusion through the fabric, increases linearly. Using a movable thermal manikin, walking at various speeds, and with a combined effect with wind, the intrinsic air speed and convection coefficient are defined. The intrinsic air speed combines the effects of external air and body motions. The intrinsic convection coefficient is a linear function of the square root of the inner air speed.
Star Wars Initial Stickers
The image above is was made with the incredibly nostalgic Topps Star Wars ESB Stickers and help from the Restraining Bolt image generator. A similar generator can be found using 1974 Topps Monster Initials. Hat tip to Mr. Lady.
Crying Over Auto Tune
My post about auto tuning Billy Mays commercials is getting a lot of hits from Boing Boing today so I thought I would post this funny clip of a Crying Baby Auto Tune created by Hachi Akarolo.
Chat With A Stranger
Go ahead, chat with a stranger. Omegle is like a Russian roulette with humans instead of bullets. You are still going to end up shooting yourself anyway.