As with most electronic musical instruments, we saw this in the tip box and expected the usual random noises to show off the instruments range. Consider us pleasantly surprised. They cut strait to it and showed us what la Guitare à crayon really is. It is an instrument of both audio and visual art. You draw while you play. The guitar appears to have a wacom attached to the front where you would normally strum. different areas of the wacom seem to effect the music much like a string being plucked. In one of the videos we see some…
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Hundreds Die In Urumqi. Does The World Care?
According to the latest news reports from Urumqi, a far-flung city in western China, “calm” had returned to the streets as the death toll from Sunday’s protests hit 156, with 800 injured, and 1,434 protestors detained. Officials say most of the dead were Han Chinese, while Uyghur groups report that 90% of those killed were Uyghurs. Though reports about the ethnic background of those killed and accounts of the protest may vary, one thing is clear. The Chinese government has cracked down, enforced curfews, and rounded up protestors in an effort to stop future unrest. Meanwhile, wall posts from Uyghurs,…
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Ghetto electronics repair
After hearing that his video card might be repairable by heating it up to reflow it, this user did just that. He stripped it down and tossed it in his oven. It’s amazing how often this type of hackish repair works. We’ve heard of people using candles on ibooks, tossing video cards in oven,s and wrapping an xbox 360 in a towel and running it for 30 minutes to get it hot enough to reflow itself. Why even bother with controlled temperatures and exact measurements? What other crazy fixes have you had to employ? We had a Playstation that…
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Why Aligning Yourself with The “StraightLineDownLine” System WILL bring you Financial Freedom!
Why Joining the “StraightLineDownline” Business Builder System IS the Right Decision that WILL bring you financial freedom! Rob Herr is the “Master Closer” with the “StraightlineDownline” Business Builder System and this is key to everyone’s success! This is a life Changing Business Opportunity…Get In Line Today! The Straightline Downline is a business building system that attracts people that are at a stage in their life where they have had enough and are ready for a change. With our business building system, we don’t need to go out looking for people to talk to about a business opportunity. The system brings…
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Microsoft Windows Vista 1.2
Windows Vista is now available for IT professionals and developers with MSDN and TechNet subscriptions In the coming weeks Microsoft will start the Windows Vista Customer Preview Program CPP for developers and IT professionals who are not members of the subscription services Windows Vista comes with a breakthrough user experience and is designed to help you feel confident in your ability to view find and organize information and to control your computing experience The visual sophistication of Windows Vista helps streamline your computing experience by refining common window elements so you can better focus on the content on the screen…
