I watched a great "Know Your Meme" video today, which helps explain Auto-Tune, the pitch-correcting software that Cher first used in the 1998 song "Believe," made most popular by the rapper/singer T-Pain, and which is now the source of lots of great internet videos. Weird Al even makes a guest appearance to explain how it works:



As they point out in the video, what makes Auto-Tune truly great though is when it's used to make music from non-musical sources. My personal favorite are these songs:

"A Glorious Dawn," by Carl Sagan and featuring Stephen Hawking:


and "We Are All Connected," with Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Bill Nye:


And it's always worth watching I'm On A Boat, which will be literally true for me in about a month.

current weather: Clear, 49, Wind: calm

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Going to Wal-Mart is always kind of a surreal experience for me, but after spending a good chunk of time this week at peopleofwalmart.com, I can see that my trips there have been relatively tame.

We live in a totally ridiculous world. And I love that. Most of the time.

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Some guy made a video from the top of the Burj Dubai, the world's new tallest building, set to open on January 4th:

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