Chuck Stewart wrote:
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:23:10 -0500, mike flugennock wrote:

adam bootle wrote:

http://adboo.com/auto

Sorry, but all I get at this page is a short Flash bit that plays over
an all-black page, and then nothing after that. This happens both in
Mozilla and IE.

Somebody designs a flash-based web
page in Windows and of course it
all ends in tears...

Aha! Java as well as JavaScript. Nothing personal to Adam, but this page
has every single potentially-most-annoying-and-dangerous feature a Web
page could have...except, of course none of it's annoying or dangerous,
except perhaps for the recording of Pete Conrad reading Gordon Cooper's
poetry (dangerous, that is). Still, I didn't think there'd be any
problem opening the page in OSX if it was designed under Windoze.

So, aaaa-aanyway...I've finally downloaded my coveted pure, clean,
noise-free "push quindar". Still, some weird thoughts...

....Am I the only one here who's somehow underwhelmed by the clean,
fresh, pure, noise-free quindar tones? I think part of the excitement of
those little pings was knowing that some of them were being transmitted
from a quarter-million miles out by the first humans on the Moon, so the
clean, pure, "original" version -- devoid of any background hiss or
crackling or other long-distance xmission noise -- seems robbed of its
excitement. So, anyway, I don't think it's just the _tone_ that's the
thing, here, it's the context we heard them in, "flavored" or "colored"
by the noise of radio xmissions from humans reading Genesis from the
Moon, or announcing the first human footsteps on the Moon, or waxing
poetic or singing for the first time on the Moon.

(On my G4 I have an .sfil of a quindar tone xmitted during Apollo 11
approach/landing comms which I clipped from a NASA TV rebroadcast of the
epic NASA PAO documentary on Apollo 11 during the NASA TV All-Night
Movies*. I have it clipped right up tight at the beginning, so there's
no noise ahead of the "attack", so when there's any system event that
sounds a tone, the tone pings in very nicely.)



*Yeah -- when the wife's job sends her out of town, I put myself to
sleep with the NASA TV All-Night PAO Reel Marathon -- no, not the Video
File, but those good old hard-boiled 60s/early 70s PAO documentaries.
Sad, huh?


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"Though I could not caution all, I yet may warn a few:
Don't lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools!"

--grateful dead.
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