She Blinded Me With Quickies

18buddhas brought us stories and pictures of id Software's New Office. TheLocustNMI busted some MC Paul Barman and Commodore 64 on us. Geek rap, eh? Apparently C-64 is the sixth-most downloaded Jewish hip-hop group on the planet. An anonymous coward told us about grown men with joysticks on their heads. a2fan shared the super-secret Microsoft Breakup Plan. Ant told us to check out some commercials, and then akaChe got our hopes up with the iTari. Combat, anyone? Fish shared the proposal to encode Basic Egyptian Hieroglyphs in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646-2. Speaking of history, another anonymous coward sent in the link to a really great PBS parody, The 1999 House. tobyjaffey (aka trj) wrote in about the Geekshirts project at SourceForge. Josh Woodward told us about the scary fact that Sometimes Barney Starts Playing Peekaboo on His Own.

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Barney needs to be shot

[poochie]

Its official, BARNEY MUST DIE!

Another AC?

[Jim Tyre]

Speaking of history, another anonymous coward sent in the link to a really great PBS parody

How do you know that it was *another* anonymous coward?

Re:Jewish Hip-Hop

[technos]

As a rabid Elton John fan and the former owner of three pair of said Radio Shack 'Slimline' walkie talkies, I decided to do a little experiment.

While no Radio Shack walkie-talkies were available for this scientific endeavor, I was able to locate a Tandy wireless intercom that sounds much the same.

For testing of the 'scratch' media, I used each of my three vintage turntables (1922 Victorola, a 1960's Sears Portable, and a 1972 Panasonic Quadraphonic), and tried to replicate the sound.

Testing media consisted of my father's collection of 1960-1980 LPs, including such greats as 'The Bee Gees', 'Emerson, Lake and Palmer', and the 1970's Disco diva Gloria Gaynor. I also selected two of the poorest examples of Elton John I had on hand, a severly scratched copy of 'Madman Across the Water' and a nearly mutilated copy of 'Captain Fantastic and The Brown Dirt Cowboy' which is also short the dustjacket.

As a result, I'd say it's is nothing like scratching Elton John whilst playing the Beastie Boys over a Radio Shack walkie talkie.

However, it sounds exactly like a Barbara Streisand 45 scratched on a dull, steel-needled Victorola set to speed 2, coupled with random Steven Tyler screeches. Grab Aerosmith's last album, 'Nine Lives', and listen to 'My Girl' for a good example. The rest is provided by by a copy of 'Marky Mark and The Funky Bunch's premire album played in a skip happy Sony CD changer, broadcast over said wireless intercom with the 'Fine-Tuning' screw set all the way to the right on the base unit and all the way to the left on the remote.

Independant confirmation of my result is encouraged.

Re:The difference between me and Barney

[HobNob]

What I really want to know is what the 'additional query words' mean at the end of that MS KB page mean. What the hell is "barney barnie acti ac ta mates mate actimate actamate actamates kbimu actimates"?

Is that like "Klaatu barada nikto"?

Quicktime Hell

[DrPsycho]

If I remember correctly, an earlier Slashdot posting featured CmdrTaco proudly proclaiming:

"note to story submittors: if video clips aren't viewable under Linux, I can't view them to consider them for posting, so don't bother submitting those quicktime clips"

I guess this stance doesn't apply to the posting of the other members of the Slashdot crew. All I see on that classic videogame ad site is QuickTime, QuickTime, QuickTime.

Bah. I'm not booting into another OS just to watch these. Maybe someone should convert the ads to Real. :^)

Jewish Hip-Hop

[Ephro]

Seriously everyone needs to go listen to their songs, especially Foam. To quote:

'I'm a 6 foot tall mathematical rapper'

It's like playing the Beastie Boys through an old Radio Shack walkie talkie while scratching an old copy of Elton John and stepping on a cat. Good stuff to be sure.

EJL

Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music

[seligman]

Since we're poking fun at MS's knowledgebase, I bet you didn't know you should be afraid when:

Your computer randomly starts to play classical music

I don't know what's worse, that article, or the fact I find it fifty percent of the time while I'm doing normal searches for other information.