Can I buy a vuvuzela at my local sporting goods store? I want one.
[ thanks Brad Hales ]
[via Eric Archer]
What do I have to do to be at a performance of this group's? I'll do it.
[via Famoudou Don Moye]
[via Warholian]
[ via New Yorker ]
At the Metropolitan Police's digital forensics lab in Penge, south London, scientists have created a database that has recorded these deviations once every one and a half seconds for the last five years. Over a short period they form a unique signature of the electrical frequency at that time, which research has shown is the same in London as it is in Glasgow.
On receipt of recordings made by the police or public, the scientists are able to detect the variations in mains electricity occuring at the time the recording was made. This signature is extracted and automatically matched against their ENF database, which indicates when it was made.
The technique can also uncover covert editing - or rule it out, as in the recent murder trial - because a spliced recording will register more than one ENF match.
wow. just wow.