spooky

Mar. 28th, 2008 11:29 pm
odycee: (Eddie Izzard - Cake or DEATH?)
Oldest recorded voices sing again

An "ethereal" 10 second clip of a woman singing a French folk song has been played for the first time in 150 years. The recording of "Au Clair de la Lune", recorded in 1860, is thought to be the oldest known recorded human voice. A phonograph of Thomas Edison singing a children's song in 1877 was previously thought to be the oldest record. The new "phonautograph", created by etching soot-covered paper, has now been played by US scientists using a "virtual stylus" to read the lines.

"When I first heard the recording as you hear it ... it was magical, so ethereal," audio historian David Giovannoni, who found the recording, told AP. "The fact is it's recorded in smoke. The voice is coming out from behind this screen of aural smoke."


Go and listen to the clip - I heard this on the radio yesterday morning and it's very freaky. It made the hair stand up on the back of my neck!

Doctor Who next Saturday!! I've just watched David Tennant on the Friday Night Project. <3<3
odycee: (Doctor Who - Ten/Rose - B&W)
I forgot to mention that yesterday's Doctor Who gave me a bit of a nightmare. It was some kind of post-apocalyptic world where I was trying to get to a wedding (not my own) but everything was being destroyed by monsters from mirrors - if you looked in a mirror, whatever you saw would become a monster. I vaguely remember large cat things and spoiler for Doctor Who but not really as it's a description of my inane dream ). I also went forward in time and saw a (very cute) kitten grow up. I suppose I should be grateful that there was no Jeremy Clarkson around this time.

I think this just proves that all my head contains, as previously suspected, is fluffy kittens and Doctor Who.

disturbing

May. 17th, 2007 10:39 pm
odycee: (Atlantis - Shep/McKay - stare)
Supernatural, Heroes and Lost all finish soon. :( Roll on Atlantis!

Last night I kept waking up from a dream and going back to sleep and continuing it. Unfortunately it was a dream about Top Gear (involving not one car) which went on forever and ever. Highlights included a road show I was at in which Richard Hammond and I had matching metallic silver face paint on, and a bit where Jeremy Clarkson wrestled Rowdy Roddy Piper (my excuse here is that my brother used to watch WWF Wrestling) and got injured and had to recover on a bed in the wrestling ring (I don't recall whether Jeremy Clarkson was wearing anything involving Lycra. If he was, my brain has blocked it out in horror). It was all very disturbing. But apparently Richard Hammond fancied me and kept writing me secret messages. [livejournal.com profile] sunsetmog, I think I blame you for this Top Gear nonsense!

I think my brain is broken.
odycee: (Random - South Park - WTF?)
For all you lovers of The Hoff, the greatest music video ever made in the history of ever. Hahahahahaomg.
odycee: (Atlantis - Shep/McKay - Aliens made us!)
I've just laughed my head off at this David Bowie comic from 1990 that someone found in a comic collection. It's hideous and yet fascinating.

David takes heed and continues to battle the wave of demons that are launched at him, aided by a mightier power than those of his own, for the Mighty Oz* has joined the foray.

* yes folks, The Mighty Oz is indeed Ozzy Osbourne.
odycee: (HP - Ravenclaw)
On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets:
An Empirical Study

Abstract
Among a fringe community of paranoids, aluminum helmets serve as the protective measure of choice against invasive radio signals. We investigate the efficacy of three aluminum helmet designs on a sample group of four individuals. Using a $250,000 network analyser, we find that although on average all helmets attenuate invasive radio frequencies in either directions (either emanating from an outside source, or emanating from the cranium of the subject), certain frequencies are in fact greatly amplified. These amplified frequencies coincide with radio bands reserved for government use according to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC). Statistical evidence suggests the use of helmets may in fact enhance the government's invasive abilities. We theorize that the government may in fact have started the helmet craze for this reason.

I just ate some white chocolate and now I feel sick. I don't even like white chocolate very much.

For [livejournal.com profile] niannah:

identical photo twins! )

Freak Cats

Jun. 19th, 2005 01:40 am
odycee: (Star Trek - Kirk/Spock)
Anyone know of any screen caps yet for todays Doctor Who? *is impatient*

I just got some absolutely fabulous Star Trek icons made by [livejournal.com profile] pureglasscup. Fabulous.

Random link, worthy of [livejournal.com profile] blackgarden I feel: facial deformities in cats. There are some gross ones but there are some cute ones with four ears! And one with two tongues! But yeah, some are pretty grim. There's also a page on size anomolies with the cutest cat called Pete who when he was full grown only weighed 2lb. Very cute.

Damn, it's hot still. I'm one of those annoying people who always moans about the temperature no matter what it is...
odycee: (Actor - Gary Oldman B&W)
Why aren't any of the little pictures showing up by people's usernames? It's most disconcerting.

LJ are going to give a hundred icon spaces to people with permanent accounts. I'd like a hundred icons but not enough to pay $150 for the privilege. :(

[livejournal.com profile] blackgarden linked to these paintings of women with their knickers round their ankles. Very bizarre. The moral of the story girls, is never carry celery whilst wearing a dress.

Now to town because I'm going to take the shoes back that I bought on Monday.

Edited: because I clearly cannot spell.
odycee: (Random - South Park - WTF?)
A Creationist's View of DINOSAURS and the Theory Of Evolution. A book in which the author decides that dinosaurs must have attacked Noah's Ark because of the way their necks are bent in death. And says wouldn't it make a kickass film? o_0

I'm also loving the creationism debates in the comments. "But then you can't call evolution a science either. Because it is based solely on the theory that there is NO god, which is much religion as believing there is GOD." Um ok. How is there even a link there? Crazy. ETA: A snippet from the user info of the person that made the statement above:

[a load of nauseous stuff about being a soft feminine woman who likes frilly knickers (I may be paraphrasing slightly here) and having baths poured (poured? from a jug?) for her] I am a woman. You are a man. Don't be afraid of that. God created us that way for a reason. He made me for your pleasure. To be enjoyed, valued and adored as the completion of your truest self.

So I am made for man's pleasure? Bitch, please.
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[livejournal.com profile] emony linked to this text HHGTTG game. I need sleep but I somehow can't stop.

[livejournal.com profile] elspethsheir linked to the The Encyclopedia of Silly Sex and worst romance book covers, both on a romance books website.

"He could feel her tensing within, and then her quivering little flutters of satisfaction as she crowned the head of his manhood with her own sweet honeyed libations of pleasure. The warmth of it sent him out of control, and his own love juices burst forth in greater measure, searing her hidden garden with an intensity of ecstasy. . . ."

"I could not allow anyone else. . .to plow a furrow in your love fields, my darling"

"Your love juices have begun to flow, sweetheart."


Hidden garden...love juices...plow a furrow...can't breath, laughing too hard...

Now I really need to go to bed and stop flicking between Farscape and the guilt trip that is Red Nose Day.
odycee: (BTVS - Warren - geek)
Help me. I have become addicted to Lemon Sorbet lip salve and watching the ants on this website.

In other news, I bought a Creative Zen Micro at the weekend - a black one like in the picture. And it really does have a mesmerising blue glow. ♥
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Lawyers for author JK Rowling are investigating a US army magazine cartoon whose characters bear an uncanny resemblance to Harry Potter.

It's in Preventive Maintenance Monthly, which teaches soldiers how to care for their kit. If this isn't a Harry Potter rip off I don't know what is! At "Mogmart's School" there's a wizard called Topper with a friend called Miss Ranger and teachers called Rumbledore, Snappy and McDonagal.
"...the magazine's editor, Ken Crunk, denied there had been any copyright infringement.

"The drawings do not look like any of the characters from Harry Potter," said Mr Crunk."
Ahahaha! Yeah right. Go and look at the picture!
odycee: (Default)
How is it that I've missed the Sawyer Song until now? Genius, and strangely addictive just like the Llama Song.
odycee: (Default)
So I've continued reading [livejournal.com profile] mellafe's friend list this morning seeing as I only started at seven last night.

Some things what I have discovered:

I snagged a few Lost and Atlantis icons last night from various places. I had to agonise over which ones to delete - there's some that I just can't get rid of like my Andrew/Ovenmitt one - that was my first ever icon! I really do need more icon space - fifty icons is so not enough.

It is so, so windy today. Before I got down to the field this morning I was imagining that the roofs had come off the stables and that the fences had fallen down. Turns out it wasn't quite that bad, but part of the haybarn above the doors has been ripped off. Bugger. I used to do a lot of field work in the Highlands which involved spending all day on the top of a mountain. I swear that it was almost as windy at the field this morning as it was up the top of Glas Maol.  I decided not to try and ride this morning lest I get blown off.

ETA: I know that some of you are members of [livejournal.com profile] scans_daily. Why did you never tell me about the cracktasticness of the DC Super Dictionary? I have been wetting myself with laughter for the last half an hour. The definition of 'rock' according to the dictionary. I am crying.

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