The music of Daft Punk revisited on vintage video game systems

The music of Daft Punk revisited on vintage video game systems:

Daft Punk already sort of sounds like they make their music using vintage video game systems but Da Chip is what that would actually sound like. Better than I expected. (via @shauninman)

Tags: Da Chip   Daft Punk   music   remix   video games

The rollercoaster of compassionate death

The rollercoaster of compassionate death:

The Euthanasia Coaster is designed to thrill the hell out of its passengers just before it kills them.

Each inversion would have a smaller diameter than the one before in order to inflict 10 g to passengers while the train loses speed. After a sharp right-hand turn the train would enter a straight, where unloading of bodies and loading of passengers could take place.

The Euthanasia Coaster would kill its passengers through prolonged cerebral hypoxia, or insufficient supply of oxygen to the brain. The ride's seven inversions would inflict 10 g on its passengers for 60 seconds -- causing g-force related symptoms starting with gray out through tunnel vision to black out and eventually g-LOC, g-force induced loss of consciousness. Depending on the tolerance of an individual passenger to g-forces, the first or second inversion would cause cerebral anoxia, rendering the passengers brain dead. Subsequent inversions would serve as insurance against unintentional survival of passengers.

More information on the project is here.

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Ten commandments for con men

Ten commandments for con men:

Con man Victor Lustig shared a list of commandments written for aspiring con men. Among them:

1. Be a patient listener (it is this, not fast talking, that gets a con-man his coups).

8. Never boast. Just let your importance be quietly obvious.

Tags: crime   how to   lists   Victor Lustig

Teller Reveals His Secrets

Teller Reveals His Secrets: Teller Reveals His Secrets

Aspire to awesomeness. (Jan and Stan Berenstain - creators of...

Aspire to awesomeness. 
(Jan and Stan Berenstain - creators of...:

Aspire to awesomeness. 

(Jan and Stan Berenstain - creators of the Berenstain Bears)

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Honk for Honk

Honk for Honk:

By Wallyhood

Honk Fest West, the fabulous, boisterous bacchanal of tubas, trumpets, accordions and drums put on by street musicians from all four corners of the country, will be returning to Gas Works Park and other spots around Seattle this June 1st – 3rd.

To help you get in the spirit (and to help put it on), they’re holding a fundraiser this Saturday night over in Fremont. Tina touts:

The fundraiser is called Honk! Around the World! and is being held Sat 2/25 at Hales.

This is HONK! Fest West’s first sponsored event of 2012. Join as we celebrate the amazing artistry and noise which comes when music and dance from all over the world slams together in a burst of powerful intensity!

We are pleased to present musical sets from Tubaluba, VamoLá, Nu Klezmer Army, and the brilliant gypsy-inspired Makedon, alongside performances from Lesley Rialto, Whisper De Corvo, Skin Deep Dance, award-winning bellydancers Mecia andMelody Anderson, and the Emerald Rain dance troupe.

The event is all-ages! Tickets will be sold in advance for $15, and at the door for $20. Kids under 15 are $10.

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