Stairway to Heavens Backwards — Creepy

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Check out this site: http://www2.memlane.com/jmilner/stairwaybackwards.htm.

Very, very creepy.

The song is a Led Zeppelin song. In the forward direction it is about heaven but in the reverse it is about hell. Very weird. Someone comments that: “id just like to point out how ironic it all is… the song is called stairway to heaven and backwards its about hell and also if you people would just think about this stuff, zeppelin gives clues throughout the song to play it backwards. like “yes there are 2 paths you can go by” forwards is one path back is another i dunno if im just crazy or if these are really zeppelins hints to play the song backwards. if they did this all on purpose it is most certainly ingenious. dont believe? reverse the song yourself. without ever even looking at this guys interpretation of the lyrics backwards i could easily pick out the words satan, toolshed, 666, suffer, and other such gargle. when i look at his interpretation i was suprise that it was very much what i thought it sounded like too. well good day”


Or, another set of lyrics that could work are as B.L.Z. Bub pointed out: Satan, schmatan. The backward lyrics clearly refer to a man having dinner with his family in a restaurant. The man is somewhat haughty (Plant himself?), his children are misbehaving, and the service is bad. Listen closely…

“Oh waiter, yes, my plate’s empty.
Oh now the the little child’s bored, make his dad first holler and shake him.
Yeah yeah girl, beef cube, sit sit sit.
And, mortal, in with the milkshake, bring me a sub the same speed.”

The above site is a flashsite and allows you to listen to the song in forward and reverse. Make sure to listen to the reverse version before you read the lyrics — see if you can pick out the words first.

Another person on the comments for that page mentions that when Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust” is played backwards the phrase “Smoke marijuana” is heard. I haven’t had time to check this one yet…

Scott

Interesting feature of Gmail

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Say your email address is scott(at)gmail.com. This email address is fake…I wish I could have it but the username must be six letters or longer.

Anyway, say you want to create an account at Amazon.com. All you have to do is suppy amazon with the email address scott+amazon(at)gmail.com. Or for Ebay, scott+ebay(at)gmail.com. Then, create a filter within Gmail to automatically assign email sent to scott+amazon an Amazon label and scott+ebay an Ebay label. Then, if you start to get spam sent to scott+amazon, and you’ve only used scott+amazon for amazon-related things, then you know that Amazon sold your email address (or was hacked or something). This sweet feature allows you have separate aliases for different Internet services, while still retaining the ability to check all the email in one location.

Before I got Gmail I had a similar system. I had bought the domain for this site www.klettke.org and am currently paying Yahoo $10 a year (a very cheap price I think) for my own email @klettke.org email address. I could set up my own email server but lack a dedicated Internet connection for that use. The $10 per year includes one email address but an unlimited number of forwards. So, in effect, I have the same feature that is discussed above. For example, my blogging email is blog ( at ) klettke. org. This is a forward that used to forward it to my main @klettke.org account, then to my school’s IMAP account, and now to my gmail account.

Scott

So, you think that Gmail invades privacy??? I think not

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From Fury – Personal Data and You

Today I took a look at the information you’re required to supply before Yahoo, Hotmail, or Gmail will give you an email account:

Yahoo
* First Name
* Last Name
* Zip code
* Gender
* Industry
* Job Title
* Specialization
* Birth Date
[] Send me special offers from selected Yahoo! partners (checked by default)

Hotmail
* First Name
* Last Name
* Language
* Country
* State
* Zip Code
* Time Zone
* Gender
* Birth Date
* Occupation
[] which of 40 newsletters you want to receive in your inbox
[] which of 55 topics interst you, so that ‘featured offers’ from Hotmail partners can be delivered into your inbox

Gmail
* First Name
* Last Name

That’s a whole lot of data the other guys want, and they use it to target information. Yahoo admits in their privacy policy that they provide it to third party partners for marketing purposes.

Google, on the other hand, explicitly states: “We will never rent, sell or share information that personally identifies you for marketing purposes without your express permission.”

My suggestions to Google

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(Google says that they personally read each suggestion and try to respond to all of them).

2/26/2004 First suggestion:
Thanks so much for the calculator feature.

Would it be hard to add a molecular weight calculator as well? For example, if I punch in CaCl2 (or type calcium chloride) it would return the first entry as its molecular weight, and maybe even add a direct link to the appropriate chemfinder.com page as well. This would be similar to the direct link to dictionary.com.

3/05/2004 Google’s Response:
Hi Scott,

Thank you for the suggestion for adding molecular weights to the
Calculator. We really appreciate thoughtful feedback from our users, and
we’ll keep yours in mind as we work to improve Google and the Calculator.

Regards,
The Google Team

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Gmail related posts

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Here’s my collection of Gmail related posts on various places:

1.
“Imagine if you sent an email to a friend saying
‘Thanks for letting me copy that CD of yours’ “

Response:
I don’t think the RIAA or any organization could arrest you on that information. What if the CD was a collection of freeware games or something? What would they do if I said “Thanks for letting me copy your pirated Windows XP CDs and Office XP CDs. Once I get those installed on my stolen lapton I’ll be able to watch “The Lady Killers” divx file that I downloaded off kazaa and be able to type up a list of the best places to buy weed.” What could they do? Arrest me? They have no evidence, besides my words, to back it up. I could have just as easily been joking about it.

Think about how hard of a time the RIAA and MPAA are having subpoenaing ISPs to give over the IP addresses of people they have hard evidence of downloading copyrighted material.

If one is discussing something that should remain very private, use an encryption like pgp.

2.
froke wrote:
I just hope gmail doesn’t insert text ads as a signature to my emails like hotmail does. that is so annoying. made me stop using hotmail, not to mention having to clear out hundreds of spam mails every day.

go google

Aurora wrote:

Well, I’m not sure I could live with ads in the BODY of an eMail that I send and receive, but I’ll sure give it a try.

Response:
When I logged in to update my blog today (at blogger.com), I got a message saying that google (who owns blogger) is giving access to gmail to “active users of blogger.” I guess I’ve been active enough…


Since I’ve just signed up, the only email that I’ve gotten are the ones that I’ve sent to myself to see how it works. Just for fun I sent myself an email with only these words in the body: apple, mac, jobs, g4, powerpc, powerbook, osx. The text advertisements in the corner were links directing me to Apple-related websites. If google can’t find any appropriate ads, it might give “related links,” which are links from their web index that is related to your email. And, sometimes, there will be no ads at all. I’ve not found the ads distracting at all.

And, best of all, google does not add any advertisements into the body of the text of any email that you send or receive.

Some people were wondering about the format of email that is sent. So far, Google cannot send HTML emails. It can only send plain text. However, I think it can *receive* html emails. It will not display pictures, however, unless directed to.

There are a number of outstanding features that I am just beginning to figure out.

My only concern is that Konqueror (as of 3.2.2) does not yet work with gmail. I have to resort to Firefox. But in Firefox, everything works perfectly. Google does not give any advantage to users of IE.

EDIT: I just received my first HTML email and the default setting is not to show any images. They is very good for security reasons, but they can be turned on with the click of one button.

My New Gmail Address

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This is awesome!!!! 😉

There were some extra gmail invites here as of Thursday 4/22. Kingsley had mentioned how he got an invite from that site.

I had logged into Blogger to post the message below about the Back to the Future car and was greeted with this:

“As an active Blogger user, we would like to invite you to be one of the first to try out Google’s new email service, Gmail.”

I am now the proud owner of my very own Gmail account!!! Woohoo!

Here’s the screen immediately after I created my account:

Thankfully, I’ve been posting to blogger fairly regularly, entitling me to take part in the gmail beta test!

I’ll post updates on Gmail use as I go (and when I actually start to receive email at that account).

There are many misconceptions about Google’s gmail service. Rather than repeat what has already been eloquently written, I’ll direct you to Bladam’s “in-depth look” at Google’s Gmail

Back to the Future Car

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Want to own your very own Back to the Future car?

www.bttfparts.com.

Then hurry on over to Ebay. Someone is selling it here: 1982 DeLorean : Gullwing

The bidding is currently at $27,000 and there is 8 days and 2 hours remaining.

A picture of the Ebay page, because the page will become invalid approx. 30 days after the auction closes:

And, just because this is interesting, the page’s hit counter was at 206292 when I posted this. This is drastically changed… The auction that I had linked to before was closed by ebay because the seller used copyrighted images. I’ve added the copyright material underneath these images. The hit counter on the new page was: 8396

an old joke: a man repeatedly…

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Old joke: A man repeatedly rides a bike across the Mexican-U.S. border. Each time, he’s stopped by Customs and the bike is taken apart. Nothing is found. Finally, one day a Customs official offers the man immunity from prosecution if only he will tell what he’s smuggling. The man pauses for a second, shrugs and says, “Bicycles.”

Greed in Art

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Paraphrased from Foxnews compilation:

A University of Iowa student hand-sewed a work of art entitled “The American Flag.” It was made of 130 dollar bills sewn together and colored to resemble the American flag. He had constructed the piece to represent the greed that underlies the United States. His piece of art was displayed Saturday in the University of Iowa Art Building. It was then stolen between 9pm and midnight Wednesday according to the University police. The student artist, Curtis William Readel had this to say: “My whole show is about greed and how it can take over anyone, and just having this piece stolen further proves the point.”

Readel hung this statement up in place of the missing artwork:
“This extreme desire for wealth drives individuals to steal something that was laboriously assembled and then displayed to encourage awareness of greed. I find this ironic and very sad that someone would do this in the presence of such a statement.”