NYC Subway Photo Treat

Found from Pogue.

Today’s photo treat: A series of photos of people walking through subway turnstiles. Bizarrely compelling.

How to Dance

Speaking of net pop culture, I should mention Ze Frank and his How to Dance page. Back in 2001 he created this as a birthday invite with him acting like a dancing ass (yes, they have been known to dance), and the next thing you know he became a net superstar. He has tons of entertaining things on his site and I keep up on his Video Blog regularly; The Show. Here is a classic:

Guitar Hero

So this weekend while enjoying the splendor that is Connecticut, I finally got a chance to play Guitar Hero II on PS2. It’s been ages since I played anything on a console, but GH was a blast. There were all sorts of new as well as good players to show us all the ropes. So after getting kicked out of the first song I tried, we all decided training for me was actually a good thing. In general, I was hitting 75-85% accuracy in the easy level, not bad for a slacker that has never done a thing with a musical instrument, not that GH is anything like a real Guitar. The wireless guitar controller is the way to go also. But I still think I will end up getting a Wii, with Xbox360 as my second choice.

And you know you have a pro in the room when they starting playing the Trogdor song from Strong Bad. And in case you don’t know this little bit of net pop culture, enjoy:

Musicovery

Another Stumble find, this one for a very nifty flash radio / music player from Musicovery in the UK. You can find music you like by picking Mood’s between Calm & Energetic and Dark & Positive you want to listen to, or you can pick by Tempo and Dance scales. Overall a very interesting way to find new music in a visually cleaver way.

Scrybe

While I was testing and playing around with StumbleVideo, I came across a demo of Scrybe.

This looks to be a very powerful and integrated Office App, much more so than I have seen with any other software. It can also be used offline which is a very smart component.

TechCrunch wrote about it back in October.