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We just added the Pocket Miku Vocaloid Synth by Gakken – and of course, discovered this video we have not seen before.

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NEW PRODUCT – Pocket Miku Vocaloid Synth by Gakken

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Make music, write music, and sing along with the world’s most famous virtual vocaloid pop-star in a ribbon synthesizer. Introducting the Pocket Miku by Gakken!

This 16-key NSX-39 keyboard comes with a stylus for playing and a 3.5mm/0.125″ output. There’s a vibrato option, octave control, as well as volume and vowel control for 5 different sounds: A – E – I – O – U. Using Gakken’s midi web-app you can input your own Hiragana and then control Hatusune Miku‘s tonality and delivery.

“あーだふるーと” she said to me. “AH – DA – FRU – TO”

Please Note: AAA Batteries and Micro-USB cable not included! (But we carry them in the adafruit shop so if you don’t already have one, grab em!)

Like many of our Gakken kits, the instructions are all in Japanese but the Pocket Miku is pre-assembled!

Gakken is a Japanese publishing company founded in 1946. In the 1970s, they began selling educational toys, books, magazines, and electronic kits. Their kits are known for their smart design and relative ease of use and have a large cult following both in Japan and the United States.

In stock and shipping now!

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Lowpoly Space Shiba for a thing

Tatum: "How do you say October 7, 2016 in Cajun?"

That's important. Virtual outer space is a dangerous place, especially when it's rooted in actual scientific fact, courtesy of Elite's Stellar Forge galaxy generation system. That tech cooks up the game's galaxy by accounting for the chemical composition, gravity, orbits, mass, and actual scientific phenomena we've witnessed in the real Milky Way. The Great Expedition's ex-NASA scientist, Gryffin du Verd, explained: "I find myself falling into 'mission planning mode' when I get ready to leave the stations. The frameshift drive/supercruise model in the game doesn't behave like normal orbital mechanics as you would think of with the shuttle (burn the engine on this side of planet to effect an orbit change on the other side), but the planets do have effects on your ship, slowing you down and sometimes 'slingshotting' you around the other side as Kepler's 2nd Law says it must. So, while the tasks are different, the mindset is surprisingly similar [to what I did at NASA]."

nasturbate:

i would literally go to this i want to see joe biden get on stage and just do whatever for a set like u think this is a joke but this is very real to me and id appreciate if you wouldnt make fun of the fact that i want to be a biden groupie

bizarro-sai:

nix-hound:

You might be cool. But you will never be as cool as this cat wearing a paper helmet.

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if gif is pronounced jif then why do you have to write it like “jif” to get your point across

…and if giraffe is pronounced jiraffe then welcome to English???

Giraffe is derived from a French word (girafe), itself loaned from an Arabic word (phoenetically zirāfa) with likely African roots going further back that are lost to time. Soft g from before white people were a thing.

GIF is an initialism for “Graphics Interchange Format.” The initialism itself is rootless, which arguably suggests that no rules derived from roots apply. Graphics itself is derived from Latin and Greek roots, back to graphein (to write), and Proto-Indo-European gerbh (to carve)—the same root as -graphy as a suffix. Hard g from before today’s organized Western languages had organized precursors.

A stronger and more likely reinforcement of a hard-g GIF, however, is that the only words in English that start with “gif” are all forms of “gift”, which always uses a hard g. There’s no rule for softening a leading hard consonant because a trailing t went missing.

The tendency to soften g when it’s before an i comes from two sources:

historical palatalization of /ɡ/ which took place in Late Latin, and led to a change in the pronunciation of the sound [ɡ] before the front vowels [e] and [i]. Later, other languages not descended from Latin, such as English, inherited this feature as an orthographic convention. (Wikipedia, citing Leonard Arnaud and Ralph H. Emerson)

and linguistic prescriptivism, where usage is ignored in favor of malleable guidelines converted to hard-and-fast rules, in part to create arbitrary divisions in social classes. One of many such rules (many of which are still taught, unchallenged and without context, in schools and some colleges) is that g is soft before e, i, or y. This is derived from (and loaded with exceptions because of) common usage in loanword sources:

In English orthography, the pronunciation of hard ⟨g⟩ is /ɡ/ and that of soft ⟨g⟩ is /dʒ/; in a number of French loanwords, such as rouge and genre, soft ⟨g⟩ is /ʒ/. In word roots of Greco-Latinate origin, the soft ⟨g⟩ pronunciation occurs before ⟨i e y⟩ while the hard ⟨g⟩ pronunciation occurs elsewhere. ^[2] In words of Germanic origin, and loans from other sources, the hard pronunciation may occur before ⟨i e y⟩ as well (as in get and gill). (Wikipedia, citing Emerson)

The controversy is that the GIF’s creator, Steve Wilhite, insists GIF is pronounced “jif”. That revelation itself is 28 years old, and is accompanied by the suggestion that the .gif extension is uniquely not an initialism for Graphics Interchange Format, but rather a meaningless acronym where the G stands for “jiffy”. (Now who sounds weird?)

Unfortunately, Mr. Wilhite and the CompuServe engineering team he led are not linguists, and pronunciation is defined by usage, not dictate. Just ask any Briton how they feel about American pronunciation and spelling of certain English words, and vice versa.

Nobody has explained why the format’s extension wasn’t always simply JIF if its meaning, intent, and pronunciation were all aligned with JIF—but today that would also be confusing, for while GIF predates JPEG image files, JPEG files originally used the JPEG Interchange Format. Even in modern JPEG files (which use the distinct JPEG File Interchange Format), .jif remains a legal—if forgotten—extension.

If the more logical and parallel .jif extension had caught on instead of .jpg (which is actually an acronym for the Joint Photographic Experts Group, the standard’s creator), Mr. Wilhite would have a much harder time rationalizing what is already a confusing soft g.

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RT @rundavidrun: Apparently, a sufficient number of puppies can explain any computer science concept. Here we have multithreading: http://t…

Artist Anthony Petrie makes charts and maps that pay tribute to classic movies, and we're particularly in love with his incredibly clever Jaws "Chum Chart," an imaginary nautical chart featuring the fictional Amity Island.

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And now their disappointing season makes sense.

OMG @justinbieber is a Evertonian pic.twitter.com/T8MarITahw

— THE Everton Podcast (@Followtonians) January 3, 2015

Sorry, Everton fans. You're screwed and it's out of the club's control.

Doctor Who can sometimes be a little mired in its own stock formula, which is to pit the Doctor against some relatively narrow set of science-fictional menaces—a megalomaniacal mad scientist, an army of alien monsters, or some combination thereof. 1977’s “The Robots Of Death” has both. Since the mid-1960s and up to the present, it’s been rare for the series to break away completely from that formula, which has after all proven to be what fans will reliably tune in to watch again and again in whatever new iteration. There’s value in breaking that cycle, and some of the best stories in Doctor Who’s history have been the ones that offer up something completely fresh. But it’s not the only way to go. During the first few Fourth Doctor seasons especially, the preferred way was to use the standard Doctor Who formula as a ...

Clockmaker Fritz Oswald made novelty clocks with rotating eyeballs, with one eye displaying the hours and the other displaying the minutes. They can look cute or completely deranged depending on what time it is.

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There’s good news and bad news: The bad news is that no one has managed to make Youtube comments a good place for humanity quite yet. The good news is that at least some incremental progress has been made, in the form of a new browser extension called Hide Fedora.

Ultimately it is probably still safest to avoid Youtube comments altogether for the sake of your soul, because as The Daily Dot’s demonstration of the extension shows, the assholes of the Internet extend beyond those dwelling amongst the Le Reddit Armiers. But, sadly, any little bit can help in this rocky Internet terrain, and so I am grateful for Hide Fedora — most especially its name, which gave me an excuse to sort through men-in-fedoras stock photos.

I’ll let the extension’s description explain itself to you:

Install the extension and those annoying le reddit, fedora, m’lady type of comments on YouTube should be removed.

The list gets updated regularly and you will also be able to report reddit armie users.

[...]You can also submit an appeal to a ban.

Browser extensions: Doing Youtube’s job wherever Youtube isn’t.

Now how do we go about getting a Hide Fedora extension that works on life?

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Rambo Tribble writes: Uber has lost its bid in U.S. federal court to avoid disclosing emails from Chief Executive Travis Kalanick in a California lawsuit accusing the popular ride-booking service of deceiving customers about how it shares tips with drivers. U.S. District Judge Edward Chen, in reference to U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna Ryu's ruling that the plaintiff in the lawsuit can receive emails from Kalanick and global operations chief Ryan Graves, wrote, "That Judge Ryu's order may require defendant to review approximately 21,000 documents does not represent an improper burden given the potential role of defendant's CEO and vice president of operations in defendant's challenged conduct." This comes amid mounting legal problems for Uber, including South Korea indicting Kalanick on charges he violated local licensing laws and numerous cities around the globe banning the service.

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Face Hacking

Follow-up demo of the Omote real-time facial projection mapping project by nobumichiasai featuring the creators - video embedded below:

SMAP×SMAP(FUJI-TV)  2014/12/22 ON AIR
REAL-TIME FACE TRACKING & 3D PROJECTION MAPPING
FACES ARE HACKED BY SOMEONE AND ARE GOING TO BE REWRITTEN FACE.

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After a tough week on the field and on the recruiting trail, the Sooners got some good news Saturday at the 2015 US Army All-American Bowl.

SAN ANTONIO -- The second commitment of the 2015 US Army All-American Bowl has gone down at the Alamodome, as St. Catherine's (Ont.) Canada Prep defensive tackle Neville Gallimore pledged to the Oklahoma Sooners Saturday.

The 6'3, 300-pound gridder did not participate in the game due to injury, but he did chose the Sooners over his other finalists, Ohio State and Florida State. He took official visits to all three of those schools and also tripped to Auburn and Michigan State this fall.

Landing at Oklahoma was hardly a surprise to the industry, as the Sooners had trended heavily in Gallimore's 247Sports Crystal Ball projections in recent weeks, taking a commanding lead at 64% over the Buckeyes.

Prior to his commitment, he also held offers from Auburn, California, Cincinnati, Kansas, Maryland, Miami, Michigan State, Minnesota, Mississippi State, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Oregon, Penn State, Pittsburgh, TCU, UCLA, Wake Forest, and Wisconsin, among others.

He's ranked as the No. 68 player nationally, the No. 10 defensive tackle, and the No. 1 player in Ontario, according to the 247Sports Composite rankings.

Possessing one of the most explosive first steps of any prospect in the class, Gallimore has an impressive overall skill set because he can use his hands, is active, and can hold up at the point of attack.

He's also the highest-rated commit in the Oklahoma class, which sits at 18 pledges and was ranked No. 18 nationally and No. 2 in the Big 12, according to the 247Sports Composite team rankings, prior to Gallimore's decision.