RasterWeb!

I do not remember where I first heard about the “ringtone that adults can’t hear” but I figured I’d look it up, as my hearing is pretty poor (what?) and I wanted to test this whole thing out.

Luckily it didn’t take much to find someone with a recipe, in this case, it was JimXugle’s comment on Digg which goes like this:

open Audacity…

Generate > Tone

Waveform: Sine
Frequency: 18000.00
Amplitude: 1.00

*generate tone*

So I fired up Audacity and started to experiment.

I started with 18000 Hertz, and I could not hear anything. I then started at the low-end instead, and I could hear 12000 Hertz, and 13000 Hertz, but 14000 Hertz? No good…

Fascinating!

I’ve been using LinkedIn a bit lately, and this is what I discovered.

Obviously I am living in the wrong place…

If you need me this weekend, you might not find me, as I’m going camping.

I just have to finish printing out some maps, and putting coordinates into the Garmin eTrex, and charging the video iPod, and syncing my Nokia 7610, and clearing the SD cards so I can shoot video, and find my iRiver so I can record audio, and…

From Yahoo! Local & Maps Blog: We Now Support Microformats… Hooray! (Thanks Niall!)

Flickr and Upcoming.org have been kicking the out the Microformats jam for a while now, so it’s good to see more of Yahoo! follow suit. In their own words:

We believe in giving you more control over your data and the user experience on Yahoo! Local.

That’s more “Web 2.0” than anything I’ve seen from Google lately… (Spreadsheets? Give me a break…)

How not to welcome potential customers to your site:

Accessibility be damned! In other words: If you haven’t updated Flash (which needs be done roughly every 45 days) then we don’t want you getting any information from us. Go away.

Is this the way to greet potential customers, the people who might consider hiring your company?