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Employees of a Microsoft Store in Mission Viejo, California, recently started line dancing to the Black Eyed Peas. This looks like a lot of fun. See for yourself!
This combined with a fewotherthings that I have seen recently has inspired me with a great way to celebrate how much Mozilla has done to contribute to the internet.
Okay so here is what I have come up with…
We get all those who can play/compose music to create a piece of music that shows the spirit of the Mozilla Community (5mins max maybe).
We get all those in the community who can write songs and poems together to come up with an awesome to represent the enthusiasum of the Mozilla Community.
Get the entire community to sing and dance to the song with Mozilla logos (Firefox, Thunderbird, etc…).
Mash it all together with some lyrics and maybe some motion graphics (in the music video).
Release the song (after some editing) and see if it can make the charts!
So to review we would have a song, writen by, composed by, played by, and sung by the Mozilla Community. Lets make history and be the first software community to make a record that hits the charts!
Any comments on improvements or flaws in thie idea then please comment below (forum style) and we can refine and improve upon this!
The following videos are amazingly mind boggling! They will blow your head away.
DubFX (Ben Stanford), and Australian musician uses only 2 pieces of equipment . A looping station and… this is the best bit… his voice! While performing DubFX records each part of his song on the looping station making adjustments on the way. As you are about to hear… the result is just staggering.
Well, maybe not a long while but it has been a while. Since my last post Mozilla Firefox 3.5 has been released and so, MozHunt has been launched as well! Unfortunately I write this post with only 2 days left of the hunt. Don’t worry though, if you do still want to take part there are several clues available on the site. So here is a round up of all that has happened since my last post!
College is over, for this academic year anyway. I am now the college radio station manager and so I have a lot more work to do next year (again academic).
Mozilla Firefox 3.5 was launched and at the same time a global phenomenon occurred and the entire planet felt a series of shock-waves as it approached. The planet nearly fell to pieces as it landed due to the HUGE super shock-wave that it caused.
At the same time as Mozilla Firefox 3.5 launching MozHunt started and made a splash. The winner of the game will be on the recieving end of some great Mozilla Swag and a MozHunt t-shirt.
I started work on the next version of MozHunt (ready for easter but still…) and I created a new badge for users of Mozillaca.
That is the quick and most important bits. Now that I am off college you can look forward to a lot more from me on this blog. Oh and hopefully some more graphics work!
Think that we have reached the peak in disc capacities with blu-ray? Then think again! General Electric has revealed some spectacular news, and the word is that they have created a 500GB optical disk. Sorta makes my external hard drive look a bit bulky and old fashioned
500GB equates to blu-ray x 10 OR almost 60 movies! Unfortunatly the technology is only in the stage where it can be proven to work in lab conditions but this was the case with blue-ray not long before it came out for general use. Predictions are that it should have been refined and avalible for commercial use in 2 years time. So what… I will be… 19? I think that I will still be quite tech savy by then. I can see soooooo many uses for this. World Domination here I come!
Blu-ray is simply a more efficient use of the same tech used in DVDs (a series of dimples in the disk surface read by a laser), the General Electric system uses holograms, effectively turning the data storage area into three dimensions. The firm says it has found a way to make smaller holograms almost 200 times more reflective, thus increasing the number which can fit on a usable disc, and so the disc has a much, much greater capacity.
The biggest problem with these disks however is that all current technology; sound systems, players, visual devices, etc… would not be capable of either reading the discs OR making the most of the improved sounds/visuals that can be recorded onto these discs and so, even if they are ready in 2 years… will the rest of the technology that utilises the discs be ready?
Until such a time as the rest of our equiptment is capable of utilising this new disc General Electric will concentrate on specialist uses such as hospitals which need to store extremely detailed brain scan data, or movie studios which want to minimize archive space.
Jetpack is a newly formed experiment in using open Web technologies to enhance the browser, with the goal of allowing anyone who can build a Web site to participate in making the Web a better place to work, communicate and play.
Think that we have reached the peak in disc capacities with blu-ray? Then think again! General Electric has revealed some spectacular news, and the word is that they have created a 500GB optical disk. Sorta makes my external hard drive look a bit bulky and old fashioned 
