best of craigslist: Star Wars Guide to the Candidates

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/526482501.html

Obi-ron Paul-obi

“Widely respected for his stubborn belief that the whole universe should be run just like his neighborhood on the backwater planet Tatooine, Obi-ron spends a lot of time wistfully remembering the Old Republic.

He practices a peculiar interpretation of The Force, in which reducing government to only local control and returning to the gold standard is the answer.

While his anti-Empire foreign policy excites the Rebel Alliance, it’s pretty much a Jedi mind trick. He’s still a crazy old guy living in the desert.”

This guide to the presidential election makes as much sense as any of the others I have seen.

SLHamlets favorite websites – StumbleUpon

http://slhamlet.stumbleupon.com/

Please give a warm StumbleUpon welcome to James “SLHamlet” an embedded journalist for the online world Second Life.

James’ blog New World Notes is one of the oldest and most highly respected news sources for Second Life and is well worth a visit.

Oh yes, and his book “The Making of Second Life: Notes from the New World” will be released on Feb 28th, 2008.

The History of Sanitary Sewers

http://www.sewerhistory.org/


A memento of my visit to Rome with the RV Effluent Study Group as reported by Captain Cloggy: http://clogiron.stumbleupon.com/

From Wikipedia:

“Cloacina the goddess who presided over the Cloaca Maxima, the system of sewers in Rome was worshipped as an aspect of Venus at the small Shrine of Venus Cloacina, situated before the Basilica Aemilia on the Roman Forum and directly above the Cloaca Maxima.

Some Roman coins had images of Cloacina or her shrine on them.

Cloacina was worshipped with rhymed prayer.”

Free copy of the RV Herald Tribune to any one who can compose a modern rhymed prayer to Cloacina.

Camberwick Green – grown-up version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piE-VEubGr4

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“This is a box,
a magical box,
playing a magical tune.
but inside this box there lies a surprise,
Do you know who’s in it today?

It’s Sam Tyler.
Hello Sam.
How are you today?

Oh dear, not very happy,
is it Gene Hunt?

Is he kicking in a nonce…?”

Original Camberwick Green can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRE7BG_w72k
‘Life on Mars’ BBC TV series:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars_%28TV_series%29
The Trumpton Riots by Half Man Half Biscuit The Old Grey Whistle Test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT-8zywifco

Moriash Moreau: My Second Life

http://moriash.blogspot.com/

= Sunday, August 26, 2007 =

Roto-Tracker

“…a primitive drum loop tracker, allowing the user to pick out simple repeating patterns with various percussion instruments.”

“The concept is fairly straightforward.

A central physical rotor smoothly turns (counterclockwise) through 360 degrees, using llTargetOmega. Spaced out over 180 degrees (22.5 degrees apart) are eight collision sensors (shown as white columns of light), which use filtered collision events and llVolumeDetect to sense the passing of the rotor.

Each time the rotor passes through the sensor’s volume, the light briefly flickers off (as if the rotor is blocking it- a superfluous effect, but kind of neat) and the selected sound sample is played. The rotor moves on, the next sample is played, and so on.

Each collision sensor comes loaded with 15 drum sounds, including various tom-toms, a bass drum, a taiko drum, a snare, a couple of cymbals, some wood blocks and, of course, a cow bell. The user cycles through the sound samples by clicking on the base of the lights. The sounds for a given sensor can be turned off altogether, as well.

The rotor has three speeds: low (about 48 beats per minute), medium (96 BPM), and high (192 BPM), where a “beat” in this case is defined as a single sample played by a sensor. The random control directs the eight sensors to select random sound samples, or randomly turn themselves off. A sync control is provided to synchronize the rotors of multiple adjacent Roto-Trackers, allowing more complex patterns. Using multiple trackers, and a relatively lag-free sim (unfortunately, severe lag sometimes pulls rotors back out of sync), some fairly complex drum loops can be created.”