God’s wife, Asherah, was a powerful fertility goddess, according to a theologian.
How To Remove Vocals From Music Tracks Using Audacity
Ever get a sudden, inexplicably irresistible desire for karaoke? Maybe you like the music of a song but can’t stand the lead singer? Here’s how to use remove the vocals from most music tracks in a few simple steps.
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Paramount Pictures, BitTorrent team up to distribute feature film (video)
In case you haven’t heard, there are websites out there that will let you download movies and software using a little something called the BitTorrent protocol. And while the majority of cinematic fare available is of a non-DMCA-approved nature, filmmakers and organizations are increasingly turning to torrent sites to get the word out. For instance, in 2009 a filmmaker named Hanna Sköld worked with the folks at The Pirate Bay to distribute her film Nasty Old People. And indeed, there seem to be as many zany ways to get your work out to audiences these days as there are filmmakers.
One scheme that recently piqued our interest was concocted by the folks at Distracted Media. The Australian company is crowdsourcing its latest production, The Tunnel (not to be confused with Chunnel: 32 Miles of Danger) by selling individual frames for a buck a pop. Of course, “owning” a frame gives you nothing more than the opportunity to say that you helped an indie filmmaker out, but it’s a worthwhile cause. And at 135,000 frames that’s a lot of dollars! When the film is done, it will be distributed via BitTorrent for free — alongside an actual DVD release by Paramount Pictures which, when you think about how reluctant Hollywood has been to embrace the internet, is pretty wild. Check out the (NSFW) trailer after the break, and then hit the links below for more info. Tunnel should make its premiere this May.
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Apple Confirms Web App Slowdown in iOS 4.3 [Apple]
The Register received word directly from Apple that web apps are in fact running slower on iOS 4.3 because they’re not optimized for the new Nitro JavaScript engine. More »
The Ultimate Claymation Chess Game [Video]
Watch as these game pieces morph into creatures such as a Pegasi, Unicorn, Shark, Cobra, and more in their battle for final victory. Every game of chess should be this fun!
scacchi clay stop motion – chess clay stop motion [via Geeks are Sexy]
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Lynx augmented reality stunt drops scantly clad angels on terrestrial travelers (video)
It isn’t exactly a spring chicken, nor is it particularly new to the advertising game — Best Buy utilized the stuff back in 2009 to push electronics — but a new ad campaign from manly body spray purveyor Lynx (Axe in the US) is making augmented reality nearly unavoidable. Created by BBH, a global ad agency, the video below shows travelers at London’s Victoria train station staring up at a giant screen to find themselves greeted by a skimpily attired fallen angel. The stunt, launched on March 6, drew a lot of attention from passersby, and in more than one instance elicited some pretty, well, bold behavior. Up until now, augmented reality has mostly been a play thing of the geek set — even previous advertisements enlisting such tactics required a decent amount of work from the audience — but if these fallen angels are any sign, we could all be traversing a more unreal world very soon.
[Thanks, Ben]
Lynx augmented reality stunt drops scantly clad angels on terrestrial travelers (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Pepsi slips to No. 3 in cola war
The cola war is over for the time being, and the winner appears to be Coke – twice.
Two White Girls Become Cunning Linguists via Google Translate
I can’t say I’m always the most confident Urdu speaker. When my mother’s younger siblings came from Pakistan a few years ago,with a slew of adorable baby cousins (okay, it was three), I was happy to once again immerse myself in the language. But nowadays it’s rare that I have the chance to practice Urdu, which is why this video made me giggle. Two girls decide they want to order Indian food — but in Hindi. So of course they turn to the Interwebs for help. Because on the Internet, nobody knows you’re brown. Using Google Translate, they successfully order themselves some takeout. I like the part at the end where the dude on the phone is like, “Will there be anything else?” And the girls just keep “saying” the address instead.
Alas, the English-Urdu translation tool doesn’t narrate the translation for you. But maybe someday. A girl can dream. Then maybe I can impress the local kebab-wala with my fluent Urdu.
Hat Tip: Kunjan
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How the Large Hadron Collider could create time-travelling Higgs particles [Mad Science]
A crucial goal for the Large Hadron Collider is to find the long-sought Higgs boson. It might also create another Higgs particle that only travels through hidden dimensions, meaning it can pop in and out of any point in time. More »
The Best Sports Apps for Android [Android]
March Madness is here, spring training is afoot, and fantasy players of all sports are honing their picks. It’s high time we trained our Androids to deliver score updates, offer better sports news, and facilitate fantasy trades from grocery lines. More »
50 Years of Space Exploration [Infographic]
We’ve sent over 200 missions out into space to check out the Moon, the Sun, planets, and more. Curious where they all went? Check out this awesome infographic to trace the launches to their destination.
The infographic includes all international missions including visits to the Sun, observation orbits around the Earth, the Moon, other planets in our solar system, visits to asteroids, and the adventures of deep space probes like Voyager 1.
The official image at National Geographic is trapped inside a clunky viewfinder style image viewer. If you want to look at the whole thing more comfortably or use it for desktop wallpaper, make sure to visit the full size image at Simple Complexity here.
50 Years of Exploration [National Geographic via Simple Complexity]
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SaskTel to release the Incredible S “sometime in April”, along with the Samsung Galaxy 550
SaskTel is doing a lot of things right ever since they launched their 3G+ “4G” network. They recently announced the Apple iPhone 4 will be available and yesterday declared the Android 2.2 HTC Incredible S will be hitting stores someday soon. Thanks to one of our tipsters for letting us know an approximate availability of […]
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Use Google Reader's "Note In Reader" Bookmarklet as a Built-In Read Later Service [Reading]
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Bookmark-and-read-later services like Instapaper and Read it Later are nice, but if you're a Google Reader user, you can just use it to save and clean up articles—even if you find them outside of Google Reader. Here's how. More »
Report: Browsing the web on Android is 52% faster than iPhone
Ottawa-based Blaze Software conducted a Smartphone browser performance study between the iPhone 4 (with iOS 4.3) and various Android devices (Samsung Galaxy S and Google Nexus S running OS 2.2 and 2.3) to see who has the fastest browser. Tested on 1,000 different websites and after loading a massive 45,000 web pages Blaze says “the […]
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Messenger moves into orbit around Mercury
NASA’s Messenger spacecraft is poised to go into orbit around Mercury tonight, after a six-year, five billion-mile journey.
Military Helicopters Finally Dump Seawater on Over-Heating Fukushima Reactors [Video]
After yesterday’s failed attempts to pour seawater on the boiling reactors, due to the increasing levels of radiation, two lead-lined military chinook helicopters were able to make four drops each of 7.5 tons of seawater onto the No.3 reactor. Only one actually hit the target, reportedly. More »
US Army to deploy Individual Gunshot Detector, essentially a radar for bullets
Latest in our series of “when video games turn real,” here’s the US Army’s newest addition to the wargadget arsenal. The Individual Gunshot Detector, produced by QinetiQ, is an acoustic monitor attuned to tracking down the source of gunshots just by their sound. It has four sensors to pick up the noise of incoming fire, and its analysis of those sound waves produces a readout on a small display that lets the soldier know where the deadly projectiles originated from. The entire system weighs just under two pounds, and while it may not be much help in an actual firefight — there’s no way to distinguish between friendly and hostile fire — we imagine it’ll be a pretty handy tool to have if assaulted by well hidden enemies. 13,000 IGD units are being shipped out to Afghanistan later this month, with a view to deploying 1,500 each month going forward and an ultimate ambition of networking their data so that when one soldier’s detector picks up a gunfire source, his nearby colleagues can be informed as well.
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Will a $200 ASUS Eee PC finally ship with Google’s help?
As hard as it tried, ASUS never could get its Eee PC prices down to $200 MSRP as promised way back in 2007 — a time when Intel-based netbooks still shipped with Linux distros and “tablet PCs” ran a Microsoft OS. Fast forward to today and netbooks are being kicked to the curb for ARM-based tablets running smartphone operating systems. To compete, ASUS, a company that’s become synonymous with netbooks, is planning to ship an unsubsidized $200 to $250 netbook running Android 3.0 or Chrome OS in June. According to DigiTimes sources, anyway, who tend to be pretty accurate with regard to Taiwanese companies. If true then expect to see it announced at Computex which kicks off in Taiwan on May 31st.
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Looting in Japan: Why so little looting in Japan? The explanation is legal as much as cultural.
If your home was hit by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake, a tsunami, and radiation from a nuclear power plant, you’d be forgiven for not remaining calm. Yet that’s what many Japanese quake victims appear to be doing. People are forming lines outside supermarkets. Life is “particularly orderly,” according to PBS. “Japanese discipline rules despite disaster,” says a columnist for The Philippine Star.
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