Haunted Houses Explained: Infrasound

anagama writes "For anyone who cringes whenever accosted by topics such as psychics, haunted houses, or any sort of new age drivel; for anyone who thinks James Randi is cool or has an active subscription to the Skeptical Inquirer - you're gonna love this story about infrasound. Here's a quote: "British scientists have shown in a controlled experiment that the extreme bass sound known as infrasound produces a range of bizarre effects in people including anxiety, extreme sorrow and chills -- supporting popular suggestions of a link between infrasound and strange sensations. ... Some scientists have suggested that this level of sound may be present at some allegedly haunted sites and so cause people to have odd sensations that they attribute to a ghost -- our findings support these ideas.""

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Mozilla EULA linked to Infrasound

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Today, Toms Hardware discovered that whenever Microsoft Windows renders text in a window corresponding to the GNU licence or LGNU public license, that the MS Windows Media Player 9 renders very low frequency notes during the screen display. Professor Henry Fingle Von HydroFin of UCLA found that people reading this license, using certain HI FI components, would suffer from extreme depression, nausia, hot flushes, general discomfort and rashes around the groin area. The Mozilla team have responded by coding subliminal flashing, taschitoscope style, in the main Firebird client the words "MICROSOFT SUCKS" when browsing any site that uses Active X tags.