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This video amply illustrates how ukeleles are simply stringed instruments with a constrained tonal range when compared to a more-typically “rocked out” instrument like a guitar. (If you think it’s a little too slow or whatever, wait until the middle section. This is what guitar geeks call “shredding.” ) After you’ve watched Jake Shimabukuro cover [...]
Okay, so nothing but a link this post, but: A whole series of 1/24th-scale photos that look like the real thing. (And they are, too. No Photoshopping at all.)
Now that the Avatar juggernaut is heading into the Oscars, I thought I’d post a quick note about two very different SF movies: Avatar and Moon. I saw Avatar the week after it opened, in 3D. Having actively avoided the 3D versions of movies the past several years, I was somewhat apprehensive about seeing this in RealD [...]
I know that LED lights are becoming more and more popular for cars, especially for tail and brake lights (I seem to recall reading that the brighter LEDs cause people to react some-tenths of a second more quickly), but I would like to register a complaint: They’re freaking annoying. I’m sure they’re phenomenal in the [...]
Back in the day, when the grunge movement was getting going, I was fairly “cool” for a while. I went to the “right” clubs, knew a lot of the bands, hung out with a lot of the movers-and-shakers, and so on. Hell, I’m even in the movie “Singles“… if you know where to squint in [...]