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HELLO my geeky, radio, shortwave, internet, audio, gadget, computer and electronics friends!!!

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Hello my friends in geekdom,

This was really crazy but I stumbled over this article:

http://www.archive.org/details/ird059

and it really “freaked me out” (because I’ve heard these sounds before.  A lot of it!  In some very interesting musical contexts).  I’ve never known about this, but there is this thing called “Numbers Stations” that are broadcast on shortwave radio as a way to communicate to international spies and stuff.  Thankfully, somebody has collected and posted some of this stuff to the Internet. I listened to some of the samples and I recognized sounds that were used in various recordings of music that I enjoy such as obscure stuff like ChromaKey, Brian Eno, etc.. As we all know my taste in music is poop anyway, but I’m curious if any of it sounds familiar to any of you? I just thought this was interesting, and I know I have super geeky friends out there that would find this “neato” as well.

Radio Operator

I hope for comments here. You don’t need to be a member to comment on the article.  I wont Spam you or track you down on Facebook (as I refuse to have one).

I want any opinions on it for example:  “yeah! know all about this”, or “Chad why don’t you find something to do”, or “… of course i knew this you idiot”.

NOTE: you may not use any of the above comments.

Cheers and stuff,

Chad

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For Japan, in all seriousness and concern…

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You all know how I love disaster movies and horrific visualizations of mass destruction… I have been combing the internet news sites for the best and longest most complete footage of the Japan tsunami (lets face it, videos of a tsunami are much more interesting than videos of earthquakes). I think I may have found it, courtesy of (barf) CNN. This is just creepy. I like to mute it and watch it in silence mostly.

The sad part is, it’s from CNN, which means you’ll probably have to watch a stupid ad about some butt medicine, a penis enlargement technique, or some anti herpes pill. Then the player wont load the video at all. But if you can watch this, it WAS the first live footage and it’s worth the effort! God save Japan! For the love of humanity!