Friday, May 01, 2009

random 97

Eric Burdon and War - Spill the Wine (1970)


Eric Burdon - Spill The Wine (Live, 1998)
YouTube


Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Old School Computer Remix

Please note no effects or sampling was used. What you see is what you hear (does that even make sense?)
Atari 800XL was used for the lead piano/organ sound
Texas Instruments TI-99/4a as lead guitar
8 Inch Floppy Disk as Bass
3.5 inch Harddrive as the gong
HP ScanJet 3C was used for all vocals. Please note I had to record the HP scanner 4 seperate times for each voice.
via boing boing

non 100mph Hummer

At the 2009 SAE World Congress in Detroit, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger showed up for the "100 MPG" Raser Electric Hummer H3 unveiling. Which, incidentally, does not actually get 100 MPG.

It does get the dramatic 100 MPG fuel economy the company claims — as long as you don't go further than 60 miles in a day. The actual, long-range economy is a less headline-grabbing 33 MPG.
via jalopnik

And they wonder why GM is in trouble.

best train trips

I've taken part of the trip leading into Zermat & the train from Paris to Calais... this was before the Chunnel.
via hotel club

In a follow up article, I've taken the Jungfraubahn.

now this is a school bus

Full details here, including a video of it crashing - the driver walked away.

2 comments:

Walking Church said...

Suggest that you might want to bring kids to Sunday School in this bad boy!!!

Walking Church said...

Love the computer tribute. Ah..that is the noise made when a hard-drive crashes!