Nunya.com Email

I received this email today “I have been using nunya@nunya.com and nunyabizness@nunya.com as email address to put on forms and things like Safeway Club cards for years. I hope you aren’t stupid enough to have that as an email address!”

My response. The stupid man is the man that uses an email address that is owned by someone else. I mean how dumb do you have to be to fill out info on line (including usernames and passwords) and then use someone else’s email address.

Of course nunya@nunya.com is ours ANYTHING@nunya.com is ours. Lucky for you, we have enough integrity not to post every email that we receive on line, so the world can see just how many stupid people are out there. Actually, we did that once but the server couldn’t handle it. LOL

My advice, use your own fucking email address dumbass!

3 Rules of the Internet

Audio Pad

Audiopad is a composition and performance instrument for electronic music which tracks the positions of objects on a tabletop surface and converts their motion into music. One can pull sounds from a giant set of samples, juxtapose archived recordings against warm synthetic melodies, cut between drum loops to create new beats, and apply digital processing all at the same time on the same table. Audiopad not only allows for spontaneous reinterpretation of musical compositions, but also creates a visual and tactile dialogue between itself, the performer, and the audience.

Audiopad has a matrix of antenna elements which track the positions of electronically tagged objects on a tabletop surface. Software translates the position information into music and graphical feedback on the tabletop. Each object represents either a musical track or a microphone.

Audiopad was developed by James Patten and Ben Recht aka localfields.

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Why you should mix records on crap speakers

Bill Moriarty, record producer and Highrise customer (case study), offers some interesting advice to other producers at his blog: Mix Records on Crap Speakers.

“It’s the very naive producer who works only on optimum systems.” -Brian Eno

It’s unlikely whoever is buying your records has anything better than an average hi-fi, boombox, car stereo, or ipod. I’d bet they don’t have studio monitors.

Recording & mixing solely on studio monitors is foolish. All that low end in the guitar? It’s useless in the small speakers. It’s just taking up frequencies the bass or drums or organs or tenor instruments can occupy. You have to be ruthless in cutting away useless frequencies so the record is loud & jumps out of all speakers. Make the record sound outstanding on little crap speakers since that’s where most people will hear it. I’ve found when I do this it still sounds great on the fancy speakers.

Love this. It’s not about the gear. In fact, gear can distract you from the essence of what you’re working on. Strip what you’re doing down to its bare essentials and evaluate that. If that comes off great, then it will work as it gets louder, starts to grow, or whatever. (And web designers can definitely apply the same idea to bandwidth speed, screen size, etc.)

Source: http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1449-why-you-should-mix-records-on-crap-speakers

Do Microwave Weapons Kill?

Although high-powered microwave weapons are designed to destroy the electronic equipment used by enemy command centers, their effect on humans in the vicinity is less clear. The U.S. military says HPM weapons are non-lethal, but that doesn’t mean free from harm. The U.S Marines Corp. is currently developing a microwave-based weapon that inflicts a brief, intense burning sensation on the target’s skin similar to touching a hot light bulb. Mounted on Humvee, the weapon is designed for crowd dispersal. The temperature settings are variable, however, and can be set as high as 130 degrees F. Given that temperature variability, it’s possible that someone in the path of a HPM burst might be cooked like a meal readied by a microwave oven. Meanwhile, scientists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have proposed building an electromagnetic pulse weapon that would disrupt a person’s short term memory and cause him to lose control of involuntary body functions. So whereas a HPM weapon’s lethality is uncertain, it’s definitely going to hurt, leaving the victim incapacitated for a short period of time. –Frank Vizard

http://www.mikrowellenterror.de/english/domicrowafeweaponskill.htm