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Lamp

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aye, confirmed dead - on bbc news live now

feel sorry for her parents
 

GimmlyThe3rd

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Ah no, her dad was just riding and milking on her success and trying to be a singer.

There was another bird, a singer with a smack addict dad, forgot her name ...
 

caLLous

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‪Skittles "Newlyweds"‬‏ - YouTube

Is everyone else seeing these extra characters on all Youtube links (might be other video sites too) on here or is it just me? Apparently, x202a and x202c are LEFT-TO-RIGHT EMBEDDING and POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING respectively.
 

Huntingtons

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also, the tesla coil synth:
‪Singing Tesla Coil at Duckon 2007‬‏ - YouTube

youtube said:
This is a solid-state Tesla coil. The primary runs at its resonant frequency in the 41 KHz range, and is modulated from the control unit in order to generate the tones you hear.

So just to explain a little further, yes, it is the actual high voltage sparks that are making the noise. Every cycle of the music is a burst of sparks at 41 KHz, triggered by digital circuitry at the end of a "long" piece of fiber optics.

What's not immediately obvious in this video is how loud this is. Many people were covering their ears, dogs were barking. In the sections where the crowd is cheering and the coils is starting and stopping, you can hear the the crowd is drowned out by the coil when it's firing.

This Tesla coil was built and is owned by Steve Ward. Steve is a EE student at U of I Urbana-Champaign. He and Jeff have been going to Teslathons, which is where they met.

It's been suggested that a good name for this coil would be the "Zeusaphone". "Thoremin" has also been mentioned, though personally I think we need Theramin type inputs for that.

To answer a few questions I've received, YES, someone did yell "Play Freebird!" after the first round of music.
 

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Huntingtons

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i love that video, even without sub titles. I dunno - maybe its coz the tune is catchy :D
 

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My computer chair died yesterday. After years of faithful service there was a massive CRACK and something that holds one side of the seat on, broke off. A moment of silence if you would, for a hero of a chair. -salute-
 

MYstIC G

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Was it the first time you'd sat on it? ;)
 

MYstIC G

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Nicely avoiding the question there I see ;)
 

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