The New Yorker turns the columns of the White House into a rainbow for the cover of it’s May 21, 2012 issue.
May
12
2012
Testing SoundCloud for audio blogging
This is my first attempt at using the SoundCloud to put audio into the blog. I wanted to see how labor intensive it is, as well as how the various players render. This is the Flash player:
Pan flute buskers at Gustav Adolfs Torg, Malmö, Sweden by shazzerspeak
I recorded these guys playing on one of the city’s main squares during my walk home for work yesterday using the iOS app in my iPhone 4S. To be honest, I’m kind of amazed at the quality.
This is the HTML5 player:
Let me know what you think in the comments.
May
08
2012
What happens when texting while driving is part of the test
Some clever Belgians decided that the best way to land a message about the dangers of texting while behind the wheel was to require driver’s ed students to compose a text message while maneuvering through an obstacle course.
The results are hilarious and scary at the same time. Not to mention kind of brilliant.
May
05
2012
What I’ve learned from 3 episodes of “Oprah Behind the Scenes”
I realize that I’m WAY late to this particular party, but the “behind he scenes” look at the production of Oprah Winfrey’s final season in 2011 has just now started airing in Sweden.
Having worked in for a time in the broadcast industry, I have kind of a built-in appreciation for the hard work that goes on before, during and after the actual in-studio taping of a show like Oprah. But even I’ve learned a few things from watching just a couple of episodes.
Harpo Studios, headquarters of talk show host Oprah Winfrey. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
1. “Oprah Behind the Scenes” is way more interesting than the actual Oprah Winfrey Show.
2. Oprah brought her dog to work.
3. Oprah did not wear shoes at Harpo Studios unless she was actually taping in front of her studio audience.
4. The studio audience at Harpo Studios was MUCH smaller than it looked when you were watching the show on TV.
5. The team of producers that Oprah regularly cited as “the best in the business” seemed to screw up on a fairly regular basis.
6. I would have killed to work on the Oprah Winfrey Show.
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May
19
2012
How to be a Swede
As with all great satire, there is more than a little bit of truth going on in this video.
I just wish this lady had been my Swedish teacher.
Tags: Swedes, Swedish, Video
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