December 2010
21 posts
North Korean Power Jams →
The Camouflage Has Overtaken the Message
Spam is no longer just a scam. The obfuscation has grown over the text of spam, toppling its understandability like a prehistoric elk weighed down a gigantic rack of antlers.
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“Charles Manson, orchestrator of one of the most notorious killing rampages in...”
– LA Times
Car Fires
There’s something soothing, isn’t there, about clicking “Play” on all of these. It’s sort of like a surrogate digital fireplace, except with machinery instead of wood. And when they all crawl to a finish, after the fire department has arrived and extinguished the flames, it’s like something has died, and you can sort of feel each video mourn the ones who have...
Complimentary Google Translate Beatbox link
prostheticknowledge:
If you wanted to create your own Google Translate Beatbox patterns, here is a list of what text makes what sounds:
zk = suspended cymbal
bschk = snare
pv = brush
bk = bass
tk = flam1
vk = roll tap
kt = flam2
kttp = flam tap
krp = hi hat tap
pv = short roll
th = better hi hat
thp, ds = instant rimshot
Original Google Beatbox link
“Something new happens in the past.”
– Google Time Machine will be launched. Recent history will become searchable in the removed, floating, smoothly rotating fashion of Streetview.
