cheers guys, well done.

i briefly felt the need to sift 500 more videos just to see a tiny, psychedelic Bob Dylan logo with @dag serenading me doing his best impression of the man in some sort of high-pitched, coke-fuelled, nasal Australian accent.

Gotta admit, I feel bad for mocking her nasally voice now. Because she's going to make a full album. She'll get over her tears because this could, maybe, jumpstart a career. Because of all the people who mock her. Think about that.


BTW, that $2000 figure was just what her family contributed to the production costs in order to keep the rights to the song (source). Smart move, since the song is selling on iTunes now. They could have paid nothing and let Ark keep the rights to everything. The video cost way more than that to make. Some producer somewhere thinks the dead-pan nasal-voice thing is going to be big. And god help us, he could be right.

>> ^sirex:

geeky, saliva heavy nasally voice; check !
"People need to realize that somewhere towards the end of Vista and into Windows 7 Microsoft has taken their crappy old software and made it work extremely well" -- I assume by this you mean "now when things crash the desktop is reloaded quickly".


I'm sorry you're screwing yourself out of a good PC experience. Best of luck.


In Kind,
Person That Doesn't Install Every Program Possible From Every Site They Visit Using Legacy Hardware From 1994


P.S.- When a program crashes nowadays you're pretty much guaranteed that they caused the error. Strangely enough Windows (and Mac OS) both refresh their desktops when leaving a program--funny; I wonder why.
P.S.S.- If I come across as a, "geeky, saliva heavy nasally voice" and I am a geek; but, you come across as a, "mouth breather". No hard feelings, right?

/Sorry, I have to do that, it's written into my DNA sequences.

geeky, saliva heavy nasally voice; check !

"People need to realize that somewhere towards the end of Vista and into Windows 7 Microsoft has taken their crappy old software and made it work extremely well" -- I assume by this you mean "now when things crash the desktop is reloaded quickly".

well sir, my vagina is always pleased to bring pain and joy to your many, many orifices.
In reply to this comment by GeeSussFreeK:
I actually choked on my drink and nearly did a nasal take on that, lol.

In reply to this comment by peggedbea:
i pretty much exclusively let only nerds into my vagina. but i've never wanted to put so many nerds in my vagina at once. i want to put anonymous in my vagina. i want them to live there and take it all down from inside me. then i want to give birth to the revolt. but they won't have to wear those stupid guy fawkes masks when they come out, they will wear their beautiful beautiful faces.

I actually choked on my drink and nearly did a nasal take on that, lol.

In reply to this comment by peggedbea:
i pretty much exclusively let only nerds into my vagina. but i've never wanted to put so many nerds in my vagina at once. i want to put anonymous in my vagina. i want them to live there and take it all down from inside me. then i want to give birth to the revolt. but they won't have to wear those stupid guy fawkes masks when they come out, they will wear their beautiful beautiful faces.

Anyone know where you can find that version of the audio book? I checked out one audio book version and it was just unlistenable due to the reader. I could live with someone besides Sagan reading it, but this guy was unbelievably irritating. Just non-stop nasal whining, like Wallace Shawn without the charisma.

Odd that both of the main actors (Galecki in particular) have slightly deeper, less nasal-y voices here. I guess at some point along the line the decision was made that they should speak with more stereotypical "nerd" voices.

Cant something be done about his voice? Aren't there any voice filters they can use on it to get rid of the nasal whine?

>> ^Xax:

Did he change his voice because he thought he might have the police knocking on his door or something? Or does he just have a really lame voice?


He's a chemist...chances are he sounds nasally

" To be honest, I ain't seen the end, either"

so you sifted something you have no clue of what is actually visually depicted in your up load ?

myself I watched it about ten times now,. But my feelings on the matter dont change. I witnessed a mans last minute, thats why I watched it over and over, not the rivers of blood through the nasal cavity.

>> ^dannym3141:
I think i missed the point.
A guy takes out an over elaborate thermos, opens it, stirs some coffee, closes it, walks away.
What's cool about it?


hahaha, thats basically it, but it looks like a lense for a camera.

Why thats so cool only tarded gadget geeks could explain through a series of nasally squeals.

@cybrbeast:

I think you're mixing up the meaning of dominance. The paper you quoted use dominance in the context of which side of the brain has more activity as measured by EEG. Whereas in the vast majority of cases in neuroscience dominance refers to which side of the brain contains the language centers: Wernicke's and Broca's areas in the case of language dominance, and of course motor dominance in terms of handidness.

Anyways, thanks for the link. I have to say though, the paper you provided had a pretty poor experiment design. Ie: It had a small sample size, no control group, and some significant confounding factors (some of which are mentioned in the discussion) which is probably why the paper was published in s small journal like "Brain and Cognition". Seriously, biased experimenters asking all the questions WTF. In any case, it's interesting to see some evidence even if the evidence (in the paper you linked) is rather weak and quite old. It'd be nice to see a recent systematic review on the topic. Also, EEG readings are quite crude and it'd be interesting if someone can do some fmri studies and see exactly what parts of the brain are activated instead of the incredibly vague localisation to each hemisphere.

>> ^cybrbeast:
>> ^mentality:
The brain doesn't alternate dominance between the two halves or else you'd wake up one day left-handed and another day right handed. As Raaagh said, it'd be nice to see the study as this sounds like another case of the media and journalists coming up with false conclusions by mis-interpreting scientific data.
mentality, that's a baseless assumption that's completely wrong.
From: Asymmetrical Hemispheric Activation and Emotion - The Effects of Unilateral Forced Nostril Breathing
"Changes in nostril breathing efficiency, known as the nasal cycle, were first described by Kayser (1895) and have been well documented since (Keuning, 1968). The relative engorgement of nasal mucosa in each nostril changes over a period ranging from 25 to more than 200 min, resulting in a rhythmic shift of nasal dominance from left to right. Werntz et al. (1983) demonstrated a lateralized rhythm of cerebral hemispheric activation that is associated with the nasal cycle. The relative EEG activity in the left and right hemispheres shifts back and forth with a periodicity comparable to the nasal cycle. The phases of the cerebral and nasal rhythms are tightly coupled and there is a correlation of the dominant nostril with increased EEG activity in the contralateral hemisphere. In two-thirds of the subjects, the cerebral rhythm was an actual shift in dominance between the hemispheres. In the rest of the subjects, the relative changes were comparable but one hemisphere remained dominant throughout."
Also:
"Werntz, Bickford, and Shannahoff-Khalsa (1987) showed that this relationshop between increased air flow in one nostril and actication in the contralateral hemisphere is maintained during unilateral forced nostril breathing (UFNB). When either nostril was blocked so that subjects were forced to breath through the other, there was a shift toward relatively greater EEG activity in the hemisphere contralateral to the open nostril. When forced breathing was changed to the other nostril, the relative EEG activity between the hemispheres shifted as well."
which is why they used the tissues in QI.
Finally
"When the right nostril was dominant, subject performed relatively better on verbal tasks for which the left hemisphere is specialized and during left nostril dominance subjects performed relatively better on spatial tasks for which the right hemisphere is specialized."
I'll have to try that on my next exam

>> ^mentality:
The brain doesn't alternate dominance between the two halves or else you'd wake up one day left-handed and another day right handed. As Raaagh said, it'd be nice to see the study as this sounds like another case of the media and journalists coming up with false conclusions by mis-interpreting scientific data.

mentality, that's a baseless assumption that's completely wrong.

From: Asymmetrical Hemispheric Activation and Emotion - The Effects of Unilateral Forced Nostril Breathing
"Changes in nostril breathing efficiency, known as the nasal cycle, were first described by Kayser (1895) and have been well documented since (Keuning, 1968). The relative engorgement of nasal mucosa in each nostril changes over a period ranging from 25 to more than 200 min, resulting in a rhythmic shift of nasal dominance from left to right. Werntz et al. (1983) demonstrated a lateralized rhythm of cerebral hemispheric activation that is associated with the nasal cycle. The relative EEG activity in the left and right hemispheres shifts back and forth with a periodicity comparable to the nasal cycle. The phases of the cerebral and nasal rhythms are tightly coupled and there is a correlation of the dominant nostril with increased EEG activity in the contralateral hemisphere. In two-thirds of the subjects, the cerebral rhythm was an actual shift in dominance between the hemispheres. In the rest of the subjects, the relative changes were comparable but one hemisphere remained dominant throughout."

Also:
"Werntz, Bickford, and Shannahoff-Khalsa (1987) showed that this relationshop between increased air flow in one nostril and actication in the contralateral hemisphere is maintained during unilateral forced nostril breathing (UFNB). When either nostril was blocked so that subjects were forced to breath through the other, there was a shift toward relatively greater EEG activity in the hemisphere contralateral to the open nostril. When forced breathing was changed to the other nostril, the relative EEG activity between the hemispheres shifted as well."

which is why they used the tissues in QI.

Finally
"When the right nostril was dominant, subject performed relatively better on verbal tasks for which the left hemisphere is specialized and during left nostril dominance subjects performed relatively better on spatial tasks for which the right hemisphere is specialized."

I'll have to try that on my next exam

I always hated Klaus' nasally cranium and that hair (or lack thereof) is very funny. "I'm not only a singer in the Hair Band For Men, but I'm also a client." That one guy's got a great cop mustache.