Blog – Page 181

May 17, 2002

Random link of the day

Site: Batchild’s Home Page
Raison d’etre: debunking Scientology
Favorite element: Kirstie Alley Photo Gallery
Via: Google search [phobias sounds metal against]

May 17, 2002

Someone must have complained. I see on Slate’s home page that the wording on their gif headline for a story about New York Times executive editor Howell Raines (see below) has been changed, so that “noose” is now “leash”.

original head

revised head

May 17, 2002

Super-dub machine

This story out of Boston is making the rounds:

“At MIT, they can put words in our mouths”

From the article:

[…] the researchers taped a woman speaking into a camera, and then reprocessed the footage into a new video that showed her speaking entirely new sentences, and even mouthing words to a song in Japanese, a language she does not speak.

Where can I sign up?