Aimlessly Writing in Any Direction

Today I found out that Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince of Bel Air was the voice actor for Shredder in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoons, How the gun on the original Nintendo worked, and what the British equivalent of “That’s what she said” is. That’s a lot of fun things to learn about in 30 minutes.

TodayIFoundOut.com is a place where people post articles about the random things they’ve learned so that you can read about them yourself. None of this stuff is necessary to know in life, but makes for great chit-chat with friends when you’re sitting around the table having beers.

As an internet marketer, occasionally I need to check my IP address for whatever reason, and an interesting service called Moan My IP has taken the idea to a whole new level. Visit the page, and not only will you see what IP address your computer is using, but it will also be moaned out loud by a sexy voice.

They also have a few different services such as Moan My Operating System, Moan My Time and Moan My Weather all with different voices. Turn down those speakers if you’re at work. Or turn them up

A local Denver, CO artist, Adam Greenberg made his 2010 New Years resolution to paint a watercolor picture every day of the year, which started when he painted a picture for his girlfriend on January 1st. He also created a Facebook page called Tonight’s Watercolor where he posts each painting, and now has more than 700 followers.

Adam eventually saw how popular his paintings were becoming and when people asked if they could have them, he came up with the great idea to give them away for free, in exchange for donating to the Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund. He only has today and tomorrow left to complete his resolution and has mentioned that he already has an idea of what he wants to paint on the last day of the year, but he doesn’t want to spoil the surprise so you’ll have to check his Facebook page tomorrow.

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I’m a big fan of Mike Relm, the king of creating amazing video song remixes from popular movies. I didn’t think he had any competition in what he does because he’s so good at it, but Nick Bertke, also known as Pogo has dethroned Relm, at least in my little world of favorite VJ’s.

The remix below takes vocals, sound effects and chords from the 1995 movie, A Little Princess and does it in such a fluid way, I’m absolutely amazed. Not only does the sound sound great, but the video editing is so good I can’t stop watching it.

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This is video taken from a moving high-speed train using a really fast camera (Casio Exilim fh20) to capture an amazing view of the outside. At first it looks like nothing is really happening, but watch closely and you’ll see slow movement from various people. The flickering light in the store clued me in to the movement.

There is a lot more info behind this video, so if you want to learn about how it went viral, the method and technology used, the actions, legalities and future iterations, check out the creators post at “Pointless, action-free and totally mesmerising”

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