Industorious (sic) Clock

From radio programmer and all-around deep thinker Gregory Taylor, Yugo Nakamura's Web clock that tells time the old-fashioned way - by writing it down. Link to this entry Posted on 1/26/04; 3:12:21 PM

"Stellaaaa" in 298 accents

Researchers at George Mason University recorded 248 regional speakers, from Afrikaans to Zulu, reading the same paragraph: Please call Stella.  Ask her to bring these things with her from the store:  Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob.  We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids.  She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station. Glad to see they differentiated Parisian French from the kind my grandparents learned in Quebec. Link to this entry Posted on 1/26/04; 3:10:01 PM

If you missed Sundance

I have an article in the January issue of The Independent about how digital mastering has spread from George Lucas' secret lab to the desktops of indie filmmakers like Victor Nunez. In the process, I learned that The Kid Stays in the Picture was assembled entirely on a Mac and shown in HDTV format at Sundance 2002. They printed out the higher-resolution theatre version later. Link to this entry Posted on 1/26/04; 3:01:53 PM

New format

I hate tinkering with my site. I did enough HTML wrangling in the 90s for one lifetime. But now that I've moved away from filing daily articles to work on longer magazine pieces like 101 Ways, I can post here more often without undermining my work schedule. To do that, I need to push a few buttons on the Weblogger interface and hope it works. Here goes ... Link to this entry Posted on 1/26/04; 2:36:04 PM

It worked!

I think. Email me if the page is messed up on your browser. Link to this entry Posted on 1/26/04; 2:20:39 PM