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“When a noise signal is fed into both inputs of a vocoder the noise sound will be transformed into a sound that is immediately associated with rain or a running stream of water. Pink noise and a good quality vocoder will give a very convincing sound of a running stream, in fact the more convincing the better the quality of the vocoder. While the vocoder produces the character of running water or falling drops of water, the colour of the noise will define the association with a certain natural phenomenon. White, pink and blue noise might sound like rain, a fast running stream from a short distance, a slow running stream from a long distance, a quietly babbling stream, a high pressure jet of water, etc. Red and Brownean noise will sound more like thunder from a distance or an earthquake.”

“Cameron’s conception of technology a hundred years from now was incredibly unimaginative, even by Hollywood standards. For example, the munitions that were supposed to blow up the tree of life looked like they were used in World War II (maybe even World War I). Most of the technology looked primitive, even by today’s standards. The wearable exoskeleton robotic devices were supposed to be futuristic, but these already exist, and are beginning to be deployed. The one advanced technology was the avatar technology itself. But in that sense, Avatar is like the world of the movie A.I., where they had human-level cyborgs, but nothing else had changed: A.I. featured 1980’s cars and coffee makers. As for Avatar, are people still going to use computer screens in a hundred years? Are they going to drive vehicles?”

Behind the scenes of Raul's "Everything" short

How do I get them tracks off yer Muxtape?

“Focus groups are still the best way to discover what people who don’t value their time value.”

“Today’s Wall Street Journal editorial page has one of those sentences that make the Wall Street Journal editorial page such a daily delight: “Last week President Obama sanctioned ‘reconciliation,’ a complex tactic that would jam ObamaCare into law on sheer power politics.” The beautiful thing about this sentence is that it has no argument (nor is there any support for the argument in the sentences that surround it.) It’s sheer hand-waving, an attempt to muster every adjective in the writer’s power to make the process of voting sound frightening and sinister. Likewise, I could write, “This morning, controversial foreign billionaire media boss Rupert Murdoch gave his cronies the go-ahead to chop down and mutilate hundreds of trees, pulverize the carcasses until they were rendered unrecognizable, and then order their underlings to fill the pages with propaganda for the business class, with any refusal to comply punished by the forfeiture of wages and access to health care.” But that would be a fairly slanted way to describe the process of publishing a newspaper.”

“BURKETT: What happened was the director and I had a bad difference over the direction of the film that resulted in a lawsuit that has settled amicably out of court. But there have been all these events around the Oscars, and I wasn’t invited to any of them. And he’s not speaking to me. So we weren’t even able to discuss ahead of the time who would be the one person allowed to speak if we won. And then, as I’m sure you saw, when we won, he raced up there to accept the award. And his mother took her cane and blocked me. So I couldn’t get up there very fast.”

“If I had a show, I’d tweet about which Oscar winner is coming on tonight. Instead, here’s my favorite frozen vegetable: Peas!”

“While the internet is a physical body of wires and chips, the web is a shared non-physical realm of experience that requires many aspects of spiritual faith to interact with. We post and commune on a plane of information that we cannot touch or see. We tend to wander the web in private, confronting the massive database alone each day. We are inclined to use the web for the satisfaction of our emotional and intellectual needs rather than for our physical needs. We make pilgrimage to the same web sites at regular and repeated intervals, paying homage to them by contributing or partaking, and then we move on to our other daily needs like eating and sleeping. But all the while, we have faith that this plane of information we have become so dependent on is tangible enough to provide a worthwhile connectedness. For many of us, the web has become almost sacred, its ritual use is the embodiment of our spiritual needs. So I suppose that my conclusion is this: surfing the web can be a fulfilling spiritual experience and a direct interaction with a transcendent reality.”

“The biological mechanism(s) of action of general anesthetics are not well understood.”

“Grandma got me in the Admiral’s Club @ JFK. They have one room with Fox News and one with MSNBC so the rich don’t fight!”

“We had a client who needed a site done for her champion horse riding ranch. In the initial client meeting, she stated that she wanted each of the horses to have their own blog because they had ‘Such unique personality’.”

Family Values GOPer Was At Gay Club Before Drunk Driving Arrest

“With many local businesses involved in the event; Open Dome Productions, Spaced Invaders and Ice Box Bartending Services, This Is Charleston brings newer genres of music to Charleston and creates a more dynamic atmosphere of entertainment. You can’t go wrong with an enormous blow-up Planetarium incorporated with digital video projections and live music from Electric Friends; well done and superb.”

Lady Antebellum’s “Need You Now” vs. Alan Parsons Project’s “Eye In The Sky”

As previously mentioned, I’ve been listening to pop radio in the car to see what’s happening these days. It’s always weird to hear a new song that sounds very similar to an old jam.

First “Need You Now” plays, then “Eye In The Sky,” then I kind of beat matched them, bumped “Eye” up two semitones to match the keys, and overlaid them.

Craig Cunningham Has a Simple Solution for Getting Bill Collectors Off His Back. He Sues Them.

“Proverbs 22:7 instructs us: “The borrower is servant to the lender.” But the lesson requires some exegesis to fit smoothly into context. The burden of the U.S. foreign debt may be better explained by the oft-repeated Wall Street wisecrack, which we repeat: When you owe the bank $1 million, the bank has got you; when you owe the bank $1 billion, you’ve got the bank.”

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Very creative people get atemporal early on. Are relatively unimpressed by the “now” factor, by latest things. Access the whole continuum. #

Less creative people believe in “originality” and “innovation”, two basically misleading but culturally very powerful concepts. #

Your bleeding-edge Now is always someone else’s past. Someone else’s ’70s bellbottoms. Grasp that and start to attain atemporality. #

The most intelligent 21st-century fashion strives for a radical atemporality. Probably because the digital is radically atemporal. #

That week’s new Mac obsoleting as you drove it home from the dealer. Like melting ice cream. Like any imagined future. #

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“Liberty and freedom are negative concepts. They imply merely the absence of formal restraint (usually by the state). However autonomy is a richer and more complete concept. It is akin to the distinction Martin Luther King Jr. once drew between peace that was merely the absence of violence, and peace which contained the presence of justice. Thus it is not merely enough to remove the chains that bind humanity, if they are left destitute in the street to wander aimlessly and hungry. Autonomy requires the capacity to pursue goals. It is still individualistic, but allows for the real support all of us need from without to make any of those goals a reality.”

“Someone who believes that a guy fathered himself in order to send himself to earth in order to kill himself in order to appease himself for the very sins to which he himself convicted mankind as retribution for having fallen for a trick effected through the agency of a TALKING SNAKE doesn’t get to call other people’s beliefs “ridiculous”.”

Utah Hates Women

“…the Patriot Act and related legislation do have the effect of legalizing most of the actual crimes against me by Nixon. Sneak-and-peek entries and burglaries of a doctor’s office, in search of information to use against a “terrorist suspect”? (i.e., someone like me who opposes and resists a president’s terrorism). Legal, now. Warrantless wiretaps? Legal. Use of CIA against an American citizen? Legal. So, a president doing to someone what Nixon did to me would now not be in danger of prosecution or impeachment for it; he wouldn’t have to commit new crimes of obstruction of justice, including bribery (of Hunt) and incitement of false testimony, to cover himself. He could now do such things with impunity.”