Vocaloids: Technology starting to replace human voice

This is pretty incredible. Yamaha has developed technology to let you type in lyrics, and the computer will generate the singing. It actually sounds pretty good. I'm sure it won't be too many years and you'll have a hard time telling if it's human, or vocaloid.

I hate directing people to Myspace--I think it's the most unholy innovation to hit society, but it is a simple way to hear the vocaloid demo. Click on "Crazy" when you get there.

Another one is this video:

Be patient--it's pretty amazing toward the end

Cornstarch, water, vibrations...

One guy, building stonehenge--by hand

This guy has a pretty unique hobby. Learning how to move huge things, by himself. One guy. He's done so much of this, he thinks it's probably how stonehenge was built.

Cool advances in user interfaces

I can't wait to this integrated with this:

Letting science find God, if science leads there

Training birds to find money and give it to you

A friend of mine sent me this link. What a clever idea! These guys have started working on a kind of "vending machine" for crows. They find these useless pieces of metal laying around all day, but they really want food. Why not train them to give you the coins, and you give them a little food?

How to clean install Windoze with freeware

This looks like a neat set of programs to put on your machine, and how to do it, such that you end up with a lot of free software for doing what needs to get done.

I like it! It might (just kidding, brother) entice me to not go all Ubuntu like I planned.