But Why?

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 05:39 pm
flwyd: (bad decision dinosaur)
A fiendishly clever pun is now the title of my friends' page: Voyeurs to the Center of the Navel.

Maypole syrup would certainly be an aphrodisiac. Practice safe eating, always use condiments.

And in case that's not worthy of a post in itself, Slashdot brings us this article:
Patent documents for the design describe it as notches "formed in a road surface so as to play a desired melody without producing simple sound or rhythm and reproduce melody-like tones".

There are three musical strips in central and northern Japan - one of which plays the tune of a Japanese pop song. Notice of an impending musical interlude, which lasts for about 30 seconds, is highlighted by coloured musical notes painted on to the road.

Unless a pop song has the genius of, say, The Beatles, its life expectancy is far less than a highway. So this is a highway project which is mildly amusing for a few years at 28 MPH with windows up and thoroughly annoying in all other situations. Don't the Japanese have world-domination robots to be building, or something?

And it's not too early to get your Cthulhu for President 2008 merchandise. Why vote for the lesser evil?
flwyd: (daemon tux hexley)
From Slashdot:
We will support five programming environments on the laptop: (1) Python, from which we have built our user interface and our activity model; (2) Javascript for browser-based scripting; (3) Csound, a programmable music and audio environment; (4) Squeak, a version of Smalltalk embedded into a media-rich authoring environment; and (5) Logo. We will also provide some support Java and Flash.
-- One Laptop Per Child software specs
It's built on Linux, Firefox, XWindows, and many other open source projects.

You can buy an XO laptop for your kid (or yourself) and a kid in the developing world for $399, staring November 12. A low-power laptop with wifi, word processing, and high-level programming for $400 sounds like a pretty good deal to me.
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