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February 28, 2004
Weird Japanese Kikkoman Flash Movie
Just in case you wanted more evidence of how odd Japanese tastes can be, see this, particularly the first one.
I always have trouble when I can't tell if something is intentionally funny.
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Posted by mslaybau at 01:54 AM | Comments (0)
February 26, 2004
Ranthers, Delling, and Strags
Mr. 14 Minutes has a webapp that lets you coin new, currently undefined, yet syntactically correct words. If it's not clear how he does it, just know that it's all about Markov chains
I hereby declare the word "matious" to mean "related to Matt"; "mathing" to mean "looking for Matt"; and "matiblyness" to mean "having the qualities of Matt".
And why is "mation" not a word? It should be. That's a quality word.
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Posted by mslaybau at 03:36 AM | Comments (0)
February 24, 2004
Referrer (not Referer) Report
In looking at stats for this site, I can see where visitors came from, and if they came from a search engine, what search terms they used. Here's the batch from today:
Note the 13th entry. I can't tell if they were researching this in a 'dyi' kind of way, or just idle curiosity (The most dangerous kind!).
3: matt slaybaugh
2: circuit diagram for led night rider affect
2: cattlecar
1: mechanical automata
1: rhinos crows poster collective nouns
1: centipede physical and behavioral adaptations
1: 56j co brown
1: flash animation ant
1: bx 24 kit sale
1: capacitor 56j co
1: football metaphors
1: dumping bodies off of brooklyn bridge
1: virtual ant farm
1: nitinol project
1: dimitri negroponte and itp
1: steppers motors midi
1: nitinol circuit
1: creating a hexapod robot
1: dc motor tip120
1: alexander safir
1: xbotx
1: 2n2222 interface
1: nitinol melting point
1: searching within audio
1: meat resistor
1: ascii kick
1: boris nitinol
1: nitinol power requirements
1: acetone napalm
Either way, why does Google consider this site a source of information on that topic? I've only done it a few times, it's not like I'm an expert.
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Posted by mslaybau at 03:18 AM | Comments (0)
February 22, 2004
Computer Speech has Arrived
AT&T has done good work on their text-to-speech work (click this underlined text to travel via hyperspace to the destination link!) The link takes you to a demo where you can type in a sentence or two and hear it 'spoken' by one of several voices. It's surprisingly good, especially in comparison to what was available just a year ago. I can't tell if it's produced entirely via AM/RM/FM sythesis, or uses samples of human voice. Either way, try it out. You'll be hearing lots of it in the near future, in those automated telephone labyrinths, as well as radio and TV eventually.
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Posted by mslaybau at 02:52 AM | Comments (0)
February 20, 2004
Skunk Works
Word(s) of the day: Skunk Works
Definitions: wikipedia.org, whatis.com
A team working 'outside the box' (man, I'm tired of that phrase) usually on a technical problem.
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Posted by mslaybau at 02:43 AM | Comments (0)
February 18, 2004
Bunni Comix
meh~! a webcomic with bunnies by wingie is odd. Again, I have to think there's something else going on, because the characters have biographies such as: "Long time friend of Ariel and Coffee Boy, Charles decided to go to Divinity School and became a crusader, opressing the masses and converting the heathen. ". They are cute, though.
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Posted by mslaybau at 01:37 AM | Comments (0)