My Salt Lake Tribune Interview

Yay! Today The Salt Lake Tribune published the article about backmasking in which I was interviewed.

Enter “backmasking” into the Google search engine and nearly 9,000 sites pop up. One of them is “Stairway to Heaven: Backwards” (https://jeffmilner.com/backmasking.htm ), a site established by Jeff Milner, a 25-year-old student, part-time lifeguard and bed salesman.

“As a kid, a cousin of mine told me he took his ‘Stairway to Heaven’ record and played it backwards hearing some kind of satanic message,” Milner says. “I never had a chance to hear it myself… Then when the technology came along to do it on the computer, I jumped at the chance.”

He copied the song from the 1971 Led Zeppelin album onto his hard drive, then used the Windows Sound Recorder application to reverse it. He found what sounded like lines about the devil.

Update: I’ve posted the complete contents of the Salt Lake Tribune backmasking article in the comments.

Welcomed to Google AdSense

Yay! I just received an email informing me that jeffmilner.com has been accepted as a Google ads and AdSense provider. That does mean there will be ads on the site but I’m hoping that since they are from Google they will be relevant and mostly unobtrusive. It’ll be good to bring in some revenue to help pay for the site since I’m pretty much strapped. Hopefully I’ll be able to do that.

Flickr.com Purchased by Yahoo!

Flickr.com, my favorite way to share photos, has been officially purchased by Yahoo. Some of the changes include:

  • Both free and pro accounts will have more storage and uploads
  • The cost for pro accounts will be less
  • Yahoo Photos will get a lot of Flickr features but they will remain separate entities
  • Current Pro Account holders will get something SPECIAL! (it’s a secret)

As for changes in the way Flickr is run they claim that the company will be continuing on the path it’s on.

We’ll be working with a bunch of people that Totally Get Flickr and want to preserve the community and the flavor of what is here. We’re going to grow and change, but we’re in it for the long haul, with the same management and same team.

If you haven’t tried Flickr yet, then what are you waiting for? Go check it out!

The Blind Fragging the Blind

Wired reports about a new wave of games that cater to the needs of blind gamers. Audio games are appearing in all genres, from multiplayer role-playing games to action-adventure titles, science fiction thrillers, racing games, and puzzle games.

The popular first-person-shooter Quake was even turned into a purely audio experience by All in Play, a company that produces games for both blind and sighted players.

“It was basically a technology prototype to show that even in more graphically inclined games, anything is possible,” said Jeremie Spitzer, co-founder of All in Play.

I had a friend growing up whose younger brother is blind. You wouldn’t have known it for how great he was at the Nintendo version of Street Fighter II though.

Defective

If you have a high speed connection and are looking for some entertainment, you’ve got to check out Rani Naamani’s sweet 3D animation, “Defective“.


(via CGTalk)

If the link to Rani’s video stops working, please comment and let me know.