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Metadata is wonderful. It helps us know what are songs are, what bitrate our videos are, and the titles of both video and audio, as well as other things which I cannot name right now. But metadata can also be used against someone and something company. I was converting the Racers 2 music to put on my mp3 player the other day (since they are just .wav files after all). And what I found in the metadata of every last one of them was very suprising. I, and many other people, would assume that the music in LR2 are the original music files. And by original, I mean straight from the editing program into the game. But I've found out that they are not. How? From the metadata. (That was unnecessary. I've already said that, plus you should have picked that up by now. ) If you load any piece of music from LR2 into an audio editor (I use Audacity for every audio job I do) and export it to another file type, you will find three fields that are not normally in metadata: Year, Copyright, and Software. The menu.1 file was created on 5/30/01 @ 14:50:09 and the copyright is, of course, Attention to Detail Ltd. But the Software field is what caught me. The software used to create the music tracks is called WaveConvertPro. A quick search of this progam led me here: http://www.sonicspot...convertpro.html The real site is still up, but there is no program page or download for it because of the type of program it is. The site says that WaveConvertPro "is a sophisticated batch audio-file conversion and enhancement utility. The software can be used to convert between file formats and apply Waves Native plug-ins to achieve more accurate, delicate and natural sound. Apply EQ, reverb, compression, gating, bass enhancement and much more to get the best sounding results. WaveConvert Pro also allows you to dramatically improve the quality of audio files while making conversions." It goes on to say that the program supports AIFF, ASF, MP3, RA and WAV files. Pretty nice program, don't you think? Audacity can do all that plus more, and for free. But if you keep reading, you will see that the program costs $300, $100 as an upgrade from WaveConvert. And the only requirements for it is that you run Windows 95, 98, or NT4. Well, is that it? No. The program has a demo, but it "disables the "Convert" function and displays a nag dialog on start-up.". What does all this mean? It means that the music from LR2 was converted to the final format using this $300 program that runs on Win95/98/NT4. Granted, ATD could have used this program for it's other games, but if they bought this program just for LR2 (and maybe DR. I keep hearing the music from it is the same format as LR2, but I can't get my hands on the raw files, mainly because I don't own the game, and I can't find download links anywhere), that was a waste of their money. And that is how metadata can reveal a lot of info on one company.

http://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon This is purgatory. The Catholics were right, plain and simple. It exists and the Internet is living in it. THE INFINITE MONKEY THEOREM GIVEN LIFE AND IT'S HORRIBLY GLORIOUS. This "Social experiment" involves some coding, an emulator, a Twitch livestream, and everyone's sanity as the Internet goes forth to complete Pokemon Red by inputting controls via chat. Sounds like a fun time, right? Well, it's not that simple. There's about a 20-second lag between text and input, meaning that "a" you entered may release your starter. OH WAIT THAT HAPPENED. PLUS, this hellish ordeal attracted the attention of MILLIONS, and currently has 60,000 ACTIVE VIEWERS, able to say "down" as many times as they want. This stream has gathered a lot of attention, from Reddit (obviously) to Tumblr, with groups fully devoted to the tropes and incidents of RoboRed and giving life to many frequently used things (like the Helix Fossil). It's a madhouse. AND WE'RE FIVE DAYS IN. Stay away from this stream if you value your sanity. In fact, don't even read this post, just report it, shred the evidence. Gouge your eyes out. Burn the servers, KILL THE INTERNET. ALL FOR THE GLORY OF THE HELIX FOSSIL, PRAISE BE TO HIM FOREVER AND EVER UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A START UPDATE: It appears that now there's a vote to see which direction the player will move in. Seeing as we've been in Silph Co. for almost a day, this COULD mean progress. UPDATE 2: The Road So Far. Click the link below VVV

Then what I've got to show you makes even LEGO Friends look sophisticated! WARNING! THIS BLOG POST MAY HAVE SIDE-EFFECTS ON THE READER, SUCH AS EMBARRASSMENT, RAGE, LIFE-LONG SCARS, OR ACTIONS YOU MAY REGRET LATER ON. You have been warned. 2 days ago, rioforce was trying to find a set number so he could try to build a set that is in the big collection of bricks he bought the other month. He found it, but also found a brick that had the same number as the set. Nothing unusual, it happens all the time. However, the brick he came across was absolutely nothing like the UFO he was looking for. What you have just seen is brick #6975, Scala Toilet Seat & Lid. Produced only in 1997 and released only the the Salmon color, it thankfully was released in one set, and one set only. And what that set? LEGO Scala 3242, known simply as Bathroom. [insert comment about glass house/invisible walls/a bathroom in the middle of a field/lack of privacy here] And you thought dressing up Olivia to look like all the other Friends was horrid. :P