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YouTube Enlists Help for Music Rights Management

February 10, 2011

YouTube gets help keeping up on all the music it deals with.

YouTube has just sealed a deal with RightsFlow, a music publishing rights management company.

RightsFlow today announced an agreement with YouTube to assist with music rights management. The deal allows YouTube to enlist RightsFlow’s help in processing and managing music rights, and it should help the online video company to make rights administration a lot faster and simpler, which would in turn drive royalties for rights-holders, including publishers and songwriters…

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Art, Breakthrough Thinking, Crazy Stuff, Humor, New Viewpoints, Recycling

Phantom of the Floppera

February 10, 2011

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YouTube user FunToTheHead has created a working organ that uses finely tuned wheezing floppy drives to play rather impressive renditions of music. It’s not easy to sequence for four-note floppy-drive organs, but FunToTheHead has done a rather good job with Toccata and Fugue — a solid choice for any mad-science organ! I love that he’s got the blinkenlights synched with the music…

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Art, Breakthrough Thinking, Culture, Health & Fitness, New Viewpoints

Bacteria Creates Google Logo

February 10, 2011

Scientifically Google-fied.

I find it fascinating that scientists can express their creativity through such awesome means. I’m no science major, and the last time I had the opportunity to work with cells was in high school. Where art applies, I typically think of a pencil and pen, or paintbrush. When I saw the video of the Johnson and Wright creating a Google logo by literally growing bacteria, I was awed. It was really quite fascinating.

The process itself is not too difficult: simply color the bacteria, make sure it grows according to a mold, and then let them replicate into the shape of the mold…

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Art, Breakthrough Thinking, New Viewpoints

Apophysis Fractal Animation

February 9, 2011

A fractal is a geometric pattern that is repeated at ever smaller scales to produce irregular shapes and surfaces that cannot be represented by classical geometry. Fractal flames are a member of the iterated function system class of fractals. This animation was made with Apophysis 3D, an open source fractal flame editor.

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Art, Humor, Internet, New Viewpoints

Class Of 2011: If Social Media Were a High School

February 9, 2011

What if social media were a high school? That’s the question Ethan Bloch tries to answer by slotting in the “types” of networks into his “yearbook”. Where would you fit into this system?

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Animals, Art, Breakthrough Thinking, Crazy Stuff, Entertainment, Great Videos, Humor

Hamster-Powered Strandbeest Walker

February 8, 2011

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The mad genius at Crafbuartworks created a miniature, hamster-powered strandbeest walker. The walker is hamstered by the intrepid Princess, who is a champ.

The hamster powered? that’s just stupid, which is the exact reason why I did it. It’s different, hasn’t been done before, yet it’s in so many what’s-under-the-hood jokes. It also had a high likelyhood of working, so I had to attempt it. Only problem: I don’t have a hamster, I don’t want a hamster for a pet, and I don’t know what sort of power and weight a little critter like that has. All I know is that I’ve seen them go ballistic on the hamster wheel, and so they must have great weight to power ratio…

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Animals, Art, Crazy Photos, Crazy Stuff, Culture, Humor, Photo Perspectives

Top 10 Photos of the Week

March 9, 2011

Today’s couch potatoes have a way of turning every disaster into a spectator sport

“I saw the movie, ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ and I was surprised because I didn’t see any tigers or dragons. And then I realised why: they’re crouching and hidden.” – – Steve Martin

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Art, Breakthrough Thinking, DIY, Hot Issues, Human Behavior

The Snow Ripper

February 6, 2011

The Snow Ripper

Instructables user ‘billbach’ has an easy to make device called the Snow Ripper. He got fed up with all the snow, just like a lot of people in the rest of the US.

Rip snow from your roof in minutes. 1/2 Snow rake – 1/2 Ripper / Cutter. All for under $20.00…

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Animals, Art, Breakthrough Thinking, Current Events, Food, Health & Fitness, Historical Perspectives, Hot Issues, Human Behavior, Latest News

Woman Will Eat Dog Food on YouTube Every Day Until Animal Rights Law Passes

February 6, 2011

FOR NITRO!

Miami Beach resident Nikki Moustaki plans to eat dog food at least once a day every day until an Ohio animal cruelty law known as Nitro’s Law is passed. The law was spurred after 12 starving and 7 dead dogs were discovered in High Caliber K-9, a boarding kennel in Youngstown, OH.

The law is named after Nitro, a pet Rottwieler who died at the facility while his family had to attend to a sick relative out of state, and would increase animal cruelty to a fifth degree felony in Ohio punishable by up to a year in jail. Ohio is only one of nine states that doesn’t count the first count of animal cruelty as a felony. The law was passed in the state’s House of Representatives, but died in the Senate…

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Art, Breakthrough Thinking, Crazy Stuff, Great Videos, Human Behavior, Humor

Freddie Wong’s Guitar Army

February 6, 2011

Filmmaker Freddie Wongspecializes in producing innovative and exciting action scenes, but before that he was a professional Guitar Hero player. He even won a 2007 world championship. In this homage to that time, Wong replicates himself on a massive scale to present an entire army of guitarists.

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A Statistician Solves a Scratch Lottery Code

February 4, 2011

A Lucky Scratch Card?

A Canadian geological statistician came to the realization that the numbers on some scratch lottery cards could not be random. “It wasn’t that hard,” Mohan Srivastava says. “I do the same kind of math all day long.”

“… I start looking at the tic-tac-toe game, and I begin to wonder how they make these things,” Srivastava says. “The tickets are clearly mass-produced, which means there must be some computer program that lays down the numbers. Of course, it would be really nice if the computer could just spit out random digits. But that’s not possible, since the lottery corporation needs to control the number of winning tickets. The game can’t be truly random. Instead, it has to generate the illusion of randomness while actually being carefully determined.”

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