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April 24th, 2009

April 24th, 2009
10:41 am [Link]	Тэхналёгія робіць цуды / Technology makes wonders Мелкасофт зрабіў праграмульку Каваль Песень - маўляў, ты сабе пой у мікрафон, а акампанэмент табе кампутар падбярэ. Народ прасёк фішку, й нарадзіў цэльны новы жанр - карміць праграмульку вакалам з вядомых песьняў і глядзець, што атрымаецца. Часам бывае файна. Microsoft has a program called Songsmith - you just sing into the microphone, and the computer will figure out the instruments for ya. And Songsmith begat a whole new genre of feeding it the vocal track of known songs and seeing what comes out. Sometimes the results are wonderful. Queen - We Will Rock You salsa style! Eagles - Hotel California everybody dance now! Police - Roxanne now with congas! Motorhead - The Ace of Spades - who knew Lemmy really wrote an emotional AOR ballad? Radiohead - Creep - so bad it's actually good. Billy Idol - White Wedding in a baaad redneck country style! (endorsed by Linus Torvalds) За наводку дзякуй / Thanks to princeofspace (1 comment | Leave a comment)
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11:50 am [Link]	On torture It turns out that the methods which were encouraged by the Bush administration were created by reverse engineering another U.S. military program called "SERE" (for Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape).[...] The specific techniques SERE was designed to counteract were the techniques used during the Korean war to get false confessions from our soldiers for propaganda purposes. Tags: poly-ticks (5 comments | Leave a comment)