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Another day, another grant. Well, not exactly. We have a visiting professor in town, and I have to give a talk at our department research retreat today. Between going out to dinner, working on the talk, and working on the grant, another day has passed without new Insolence. Bummer. But that pales in comparison to having learned last night while at dinner that Steve Jobs has passed away. Apple fanboy I may be, but I was surprised at how much the news saddened me. It did, however, make it easy to figure out what post(s) I would rerun today. In 2008 and 2009 I did a series of posts about…
Is it still friday? It must be friday somewhere still...
So, just how bad is the budget going to be, oh Mighty iPod?
Whoosh goes the iPod.
Whoosh.
The Covering: Introduction: Peter and the Wolf - Philadelphia Orchestra
The Crossing: The Perfect Girl - The Cure
The Crown: Concerto #4in G major: Brandenburg Concertos
The Root: Ég á lítinn Skrýtinn Skugga
The Past: Four Horsemen - Clash
The Future: Spiladósalagið - Todmobil
The Questioner: Roadhouse Blues - Doors
The House: Shake That Shit - Shawna and Ludacris
The Inside: Save a Prayer- Mavericks
The Outcome: Good Feeling - Violent Femmes…
You see in my experimental determination of the location of the accelerometer in an iPod, I used two different iPhone apps. Let me briefly mention some of the free iPhone apps that give you acceleration data.
AccelGraph: This is one of the apps I actually used. What do I like about it? Well, it can record x, y, and z acceleration data and then you can email it to yourself. What could make it better? How about a timed start to record (like start recording in t seconds) and a preset record time. This would allow you to set up your experiment and get your iPod set up before you start. As…
tags: animal porn, Apple computer, iPod, humor, funny, prank, streaming video
This hilarious streaming video is a prank phone call to iPod Customer Support regarding "Animal Pornography" on the complainant's 4-year-old son's iPod [18:53]
If you have a crank/prank idea, post it to Friday Night Cranks.
I know I said I would do a weekly "Climate Science for the iPod" feature on A Few Things, but the week after just one edition, I left for a business trip to Tasmania, Australia. So...not a good start!
I am not back yet, I am writing this in a hotel near Melbourne Tullamarine airport(ok, that's a boring link) on my way home (yea!) so still can not check all my podcast subscriptions to see what is fodder for blogging BUT in the meantime I would like to draw your attention to a three part series from CBC Radio called "Climate Wars" by Gwynne Dyer. There is a page here where you can down load…