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eftychia at 01:25pm on 2004-11-22
eftychia at 01:25pm on 2004-11-22- Does fast-forwarding through ads make them more effective? This article about the future of advertising and television ratings says CBS is about to release a study saying so. I can't arue with the notion that "fast-forwarding through commercials represented a better opportunity for commercial recall than how viewers avoid commercials in non-DVR environments - by changing the channel to avoid them," even on an old-fashioned VCR like I use.
- Another musician's perspective in favour of p2p file sharing, discussing the currencies other than money that musicians trade in. (Points that I've seen other artists make, but good to look at if the differences between the economic worlds inhabited by small artists and megastars isn't absolutely clear to you.) I can't yet say that I'm personally thrilled at the thought of "losing a sale" to individual piracy, but there are some convincing arguments here. (Note that The Homespun Ceilidh Band does make sample tracks -- not tiny clips -- available online.)
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A special, cat-friendly aquarium. Cute. (Link from
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merde) - 2.5 Gigapixel digital photo -- it's actually a stitched-panoramic composed of 600 individual shots over the course of 75 minutes. (Don't remember whom I got the link from.)
- "The United States can get completely off oil and revitalize its economy led by business for profit," according to Amory Lovins, who suggests a plan for doing so that'll take $180 billion in investments over ten years but pay off by creating new industries and jobs, as well as the environmental and national security ramifications.
- Satirical online draft registration form -- pay attention to the values in the pull-down fields.
- I'd heard about a live-action game of Pac-Man being
played in NYC before, but there are new twists in this
article about
live-action Pac-Man in Singapore, including research
ramifications and military applications of what's learned
in implementing the game, and mentions of other live-action
/ video-game interaction and/or crossover -- including Doom
superimposed on players' goggles as they move around a
university campus. (Link from Fred, and also from
austin_dern
- A couple of links mentioned by shelaghc:
"Solving The Cat's Purr Mystery Using Accelerometers"
describes medical benefits to the cat when injured or in
pain, and
"What If The Cats Purr Had Therepeutic Virtues" goes
on to talk about medical benefits to humans of cats'
purring (and advertise a CD of purring).
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Plastic Cambrian critter toys, " the FIRST EVER scientifically
accurate toys based on the half-billion-year-old fossils of the
Burgess Shale of British Columbia." (Link from
drglam)
- Pirate riddles for sophisticates, such as, "Of which concept shared by Jungian psychology and Northrop Frye's literary theory are pirates especially fond?" and, "What's a pirate's favorite alliance-creating diplomatic agreement from the Second World War?" Read all the way through -- it changes gears. (Link from Fred)
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Maybe I should have said it was friendly to cat-owners who like to tease their pets.
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( http://www.livejournal.com/users/whip_lash/194547.html? for the cat's pur link)
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Thank you, I've been wanting one of these for so long!
And the aquarium was just too damn cool.
Ashley (pictured in the icon on this post) used to love to watch the fishes.