Daily Archive for August 20th, 2009

Nerdin’ Out, vol. 5424532098574295803

DID YOU KNOW:
-when cockroaches eat through paper, they chomp right through; when silverfish eat through paper, they graze and slowly take away layers of pulp.
-audio on original lacquer discs:digital reformatting::sine waves:lots of individual points… kind of like pixels vs. vectors
-lots of ethnographic research has been recorded on WAX CYLINDERS
-nitrate negatives and acetate discs are autocatalytic and as they begin to self destruct, they keep destroying themselves in their own storage chambers!

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