Saturday, March 29
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30 Strangest Deaths In History
Death by Embracing the Reflection of the Moon
Chinese poet Li Po (701-706) is regarded as one of the two greatest poets in China’s literary history. He was well known for his love of liquor and often spouted his greatest poems while drunk. One night, Li Po fell from his boat and drowned in the Yangtze River while trying to embrace the reflection of the moon in the water.
Death by Beard
Austrian Hans Steininger was famous for having the world’s longest beard (it was 4.5 feet or nearly 1.4 m long) and for dying because of it. One day in 1567, there was a fire in town and in his haste Hans forgot to roll up his beard. He accidentally stepped on his beard, lost balance, stumbled, broke his neck and died!
Read full story: http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/12/30-strangest-deaths-in-history
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The Sad Tally
An interesting but sad picture of statistics data of suicides happened on the famous Golden Gate. Click on the pic for larger version.
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Direct Note Access
The New Melodyne Dimension
Direct Note Access is a technology that makes the impossible possible: for the first time in audio recording history you can identify and edit individual notes within polyphonic audio material. The unique access that Melodyne affords to pitch, timing, note lengths and other parameters of melodic notes will now also be afforded to individual notes within chords.
Leran more and watch the online demo:
http://www.celemony.com/cms/index.php?id=dna
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Wednesday, March 12
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Sony High Definition: What is Beauty?
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