I've heard of kinky, but this is just weird....The Inflatable Clydesdale Project!

Yes, for those of you who would like "horseplay", here's something just up your; ah, stall.

http://www.xydexx.com/inflatable/clydesdale.htm

(note: No relation toiclysdale, as the they are spelled differently, and one is female and the other male)

And Yet Another Quiz (YAQ).

What Kind of Geek are You?
Name
DOB
Favourite Color
Your IQ is	frighteningly high
You are a	gamer geek
Your strength is	you can understand and use slang
Your weakness is	alcohol
You think normal people are	stupid
Normal people think that you are	deranged
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And now some musical news...

Recently, the gaffa LJ community has been busy...

First, there is a lot of discussion about comparing Kate Bush and Tori Amos...which at first I though was just interesting, but then there was a like to this site called Kate vs Tori:

ftp://members.aol.com/getoutofmyim/kvst.html

You will see a number of similarities between the two....here are a good quote from the beginning of the page:

Published in 'Q' Magazine issue 140 May 1998. "I'll never forget the first time I heard about Kate," Amos recalls. "I was playing in a club, I was 18 or 19 and somebody came up to me, pointed their finger and said, Kate Bush. I went, Who's that? I wasn't really familiar because Kate didn't really happen in the States until Hounds Of Love. I was shocked because the last thing you want to hear is that you sound like someone else. Then people kept mentioning her name when they heard me sing, to the point where I finally went and got her records. When I first heard her, I went, Wow, she does things that I've never heard anybody do, much less me. But I could hear a resonance in the voice where you'd think we were distantly related or something." So you were never influenced directly by her? "Well... I must tell you that when I heard her, I was blown away by her. There's no question." Did you sing along with the records? "Absolutely. But I knew that I had to be careful, so I didn't voraciously learn her catalogue. I left the records with my boyfriend at the time, because I didn't want to copy her." - Tori Amos

So, this led me to a great Tori Amos site at: http://thedent.com/ which included information on the new Tori Amos DVD, Album, and Book! And that lead to a link about the redesigned Tori Amos website: http://toriamos.com

Another link has led me to the website of Cory Byrnes at: : http://www.coreybyrnes.com/

He is a musician that does some great covers, including "In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel, and "Precious Things" by Tori Amos. You can listen to a concert of his at the Archive.org live music website....direct link here: http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-details-db.php?id=18124

Yet another link led me to here: http://www.ministryofsound.com/music/albums/MinistryofSound-ClubClassics2004

This album has a bunch of interesting stuff on it, including a remix of Tori's "Professional Widow" (Armand Van Helden's Star Funkin Remix) and a bunch of other classics & remixes.

So some interesting music and concepts for my kind readers to explore...enjoy! I did!

ttyl

In Microprocessor news...

It seems that there is, in the works, a fully asynchronous CPU, you can read about it here:

http://www.arm.com/news/6936.html

Why is this important? Well, first of all, you computer spends about 99% of it's time waiting for you to do something. An asynchronous system would be literally computing on demand. This will save huge amounts of power, and reduce the cost of components and increase their expected lifetimes since they don't have to run all the time. As well, most of the time, your system is underutilized...that is, not only does it spend most of it's time waiting, but it also rarely needs all the computing umph that you have. For example, most word processing in a graphical interface could be done easily by a old 386 computer, but most people have orders of magnitude better computers because occasionally, they need that power to run a few processes quickly, like, say printing to a high-resolution printer. What asynchronous computing will give you is that extra power, when you need it.

For example, say you mostly do word processing...the computer will just fire up one processor...but when you want to play Doom 5, or Halo 3, it then uses a dozen processors to give you smooth 60 frames per second with more lighting effects than a Ridley Scott movie. But most of the time, your electrical utilization is about 1% of what most systems use today. This may not be too important to home users, but think about a company that has 500 people in a building, and they all have at least one computer they access...this adds up to a lot of savings for companies, and eventually cheaper products and services for you, and it means a great deal for the environment, as most of those computers are sucking up power 8-24 hours a day, and only really being used fully about 1% of that time, if that.

There are also some really interesting computing problems that are solved by a bunch of fully asynchronous CPUs, but that would probably bore most of the people here...

ttyl