Ugly Gerry, a public domain font created to highlight the absurd gerrymandering of US congressional districts:
Comic Book Store Expansion!
It's finally official. The shop I own and operate, Phoenix Comics and Games, is expanding! If you're curious about what I've been working on for the past 9 months or so, give a peak to the link below.
And now that it's out there in the world... aaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Electronic devices that talk with many voices.
If you've spent more than a few minutes with a Speak&Math you may have noticed that one voice sample that doesn't match the others – the clip announcing the game "Greater Than / Less Than". It sounds like a whole different person recorded it because... that's what happened. (For the curious, http://www.99er.net/spkmath.html explains!) This was a haunting fascination for a much younger me.
Fast forward nearly four decades to now; the device in question is a cheap but perfectly functional Bluetooth adapter for my headphones. Most of the voice clips ("device on", "power low", and so on) are kinda low-quality, noisy, trimmed-too-short recordings of someone with a difficult-to-place North American accent... but one or two clips sound like they were recorded with a somewhat improved setup a feature a wholly different voice with a British accent. Nowadays, this doesn't seem wondrous so much as careless, but it's still fascinating.
Anyone got any other interesting examples of this multiple-voice phenomenon?
RT @HuskyZephyr@twitter.com
There's an Elon Musk F-List profile and I can't fucking stop laughing.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/HuskyZephyr/status/1162213453580267527
Anxiety attacks and a way to communicate needs to others.
By the time I realize that what I'm suffering is an anxiety attack, I'm usually too far in to communicate that effectively. Sure, I'm likely to keep talking and responding, but in an erratic and inaccurate fashion that doesn't actually help myself or anyone around me.
I'm putting together a card I can hand to others that'll explain what helps me most in those moments. I know I'm not the only one to implement this idea, but I don't know if there's a single common term folks use for such cards, and I'd like to see others' designs so I'm not reinventing the wheel the hard way.
Can anyone offer examples of what they're using or links to existing designs? What should I even call such a thing?
hey y'all remember when I encoded the hit film Hackers (1995) in 8M? and how it was entirely unrecognizable, low resolution, low framerate, and had no audio?
well, since then, Mastodon has upped its media limit to 40M
so, I present to you: Hackers (1995) in 40M, with sound, at 24FPS and full resolution! encoded with state-of-the-art tools and codecs for your viewing pleasure
Bonus not-actually-options:
• probably just adding another tracker or ad-server
• what's gonna break this time
• yeah right the last update caused a bootloop
• dammit Google what the crap even is "Carrier Services" in the first place
• CmdrTaco
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