An act of US Congress in 1964 declared bourbon to be "America's Native Spirit," i.e. America's official drink.
`Bourbon whisky', `rye whisky', `wheat whisky', `malt whisky', or `rye malt whisky' is whisky produced at not exceeding 160 deg. proof from a fermented mash of not less than 51 percent corn, rye, wheat, malted barley, or malted rye grain, respectively, and stored at not more than 125 deg. proof in charred new oak containers; and also includes mixtures of such whiskies of the same type.
Distilled spirits in which at least 51% of the sugar in the wash comes from corn and the distillate is aged in charred oak barrels.
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Monday, December 29, 2008
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Monday, December 22, 2008
Friday, December 19, 2008
Space Shuttles For Sale
In the market for a used space shuttle? You're in luck. If, that is, you happen to have a spare $42 million—and are a U.S. educational institution, federal agency, state or municipality.
NASA yesterday released info about its shuttles' post-retirement plans and put out feelers to gauge interest from potential buyers. (The shuttle program is currently scheduled to end in 2010.) The agency estimates it will cost $42 million to detoxify the fuel systems and conduct other "safing" measures, prep the orbiter for indoor display and transport it by air to its final destination. NASA says it may cost more to reach far-flung locations requiring a long-distance haul "over public roadways which may require removal of light posts and traffic signals or transport by barge over water." The shuttles, after all, have a 78-foot wingspan, about as broad as 11 Hummers.
NASA has just three shuttles, Atlantis, Endeavour and Discovery, in its fleet. And, according to the space agency, one of those orbiters is likely bound for the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., leaving only two up for grabs.
For those organizations looking for a piece of the action but financially strapped, NASA offers a lower-priced option: six to 10 decommissioned shuttle engines will also be made available at the low, low price of $400,000 to $800,000 each—plus shipping and handling.
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Thursday, December 18, 2008
Fucked Up? Flow Chart
Well, maybe this flow chart will help you next time you screw up major. Good luck!
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Googlechondriac
Googlechondraic
-verb Slang
1) Fear that symptoms of an aliment relate to a greater disease by self researching symptoms through Google search and online Dr.com type sites.
2) Much like a hypochondriac, the googlechondriac will assume the worst of their health after researching acute health symptoms.
Example:
"Jim is not sick, he just believes everything he reads on those doctor sites, another googlechondriac. "
Monday, December 15, 2008
Everything You Need to Know About Auto Tune
Auto-Tune is a proprietary audio processor created by Antares Audio Technologies that uses a phase vocoder to correct pitch in vocal and instrumental performances. It is used to disguise inaccuracies and mistakes and has allowed many artists to produce more precisely tuned recordings.
Auto-Tune is available as a plug-in for professional audio multi-tracking suites used in a studio setting and as a stand-alone, rack mount unit for live performance processing. Auto-tune has become standard equipment in professional recording studios.
Auto-Tune was initially created by Andy Hildebrand. Hildebrand realized the work he did on seismic data exploration was applicable to detecting pitch.
While Auto-Tune is a specific product, auto-tune is frequently used in the media as a blanket term to describe any audio processing with a similar effect, perhaps because it was the first product allowing pitch correction in real time.
See Auto Tune software in action in this hilarius clip.
Auto-Tune was used to prominent effect on Cher's Believe, recorded in 1998. When first interviewed about this, the sound engineers claimed they had used a vocoder, in what Sound on Sound perceives as an attempt to preserve a trade secret. The software came to attention in dancehall reggae music from its use on Tanto Metro & Devonte's song “Give it to Her” and Beenie Man & Ms. Thing’s song “Dude.” R&B singer T-Pain has been credited with revitalizing the technique in contemporary popular music by making active use of it in his songs, a style that has since gone on to be imitated by numerous other R&B, Hip-hop (including emcees Kanye West and Lil' Wayne, and R&B singer Akon, most notably), and other pop-music artists.
According to the Boston Herald, "Country stars Reba McEntire, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw have all confessed to using Auto-Tune in performance, claiming it is a safety net that guarantees ticket buyers a good performance." It is also used prominently on much recent Ethiopian popular music.
From Wikipedia
We at here at Zombie Obscurity have mixed opinions about this device. We've been trying to score a vocoder for a while, maybe we'll try to scrape us a copy of this software on torrent or somthing. One thing is for sure, you don't half to have a great singing voice to be a great vocalist anymore.
Auto-Tune Demo:
http://www.antarestech.com/download/demoform.php
G-Snap:
http://www.gvst.co.uk/gsnap.htm
T-Pain Auto-Tune Vocal effect settings:
Key - C
Scale - Major
Retune - 0
Tracking - 75
Rate - 0.1
Variation - 0
Onset Delay - 0
Onset Rate - 0
Pitch - 0
Amplitude - 30
Formant - 100
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Friday, December 12, 2008
The Booze Bra
Well You know what they say, alcohol has a way of making everything better... or at least a little blurry.
From About
-Everybody looks better after a few beers, and the Wine Rack -- a $30, booze-dispensing sports bra -- takes that to a whole new level.This would be a great way to drink in the theater, on a plane or at a sporting event -pending you are a woman. Zombie Obscurity gives this whack product it's Golden Zombie seal of approval. Cheers!
This stylish apparatus, perfect for holiday over indulgences, holds a bottle-and-a-half of wine, while increasing a woman's breast size by two cup sizes.
While some women complain that beer goes straight to their hips, that won't happen here unless you buy the matching underwear.
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Thursday, December 11, 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Kop Busters Foil Crooked Cops
Who polices the police? Well that is a hard question to answer... Currently it seems like no one, but some groups are forming to do just that. Kop Busters, headed by ex narcotics agent Barry Cooper has launched an online show that baits crooked narcotics investigators to raid fake drug houses.
This second clip is great, the narcotics task force realizes they been had here.
"We've been setup"
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Thursday, December 4, 2008
2700 Year Old Weed
Egyptians were hip, Two pounds of weed hip. Scientist unearthed quite a stash from a grave in the Gobi dessert.
From Discovery
Nearly two pounds of still-green plant material found in a 2,700-year-old grave in the Gobi Desert has just been identified as the world's oldest marijuana stash, according to a paper in the latest issue of the Journal of Experimental Botany.
A barrage of tests proves the marijuana possessed potent psychoactive properties and casts doubt on the theory that the ancients only grew the plant for hemp in order to make clothing, rope and other objects.
They apparently were getting high too.
We're guessing it's probably bammer.
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Token Madness!!!!
It's that time of the year in Santa Cruz when the Boardwalk arcade is offering there Token Madness deal. The Boardwalk's annual offer of buy 20 bucks worth of tokens get 20 bucks of token free has started. So if you live in the greatest surf / skate mecca of the contiguous 48 and happen to be an arcade junkie, you need to get down there and swoop on the deal!
The Arcade is open year round, and is great during the winter when the tourist have retreated back to their homes over the hill. The Zombie Obscurity Team's favorite machine down there is the Galaga Machine of course, the new Indiana Jones pinball is the shit also. Let us not forget our favorit aspect of the arcade, OPEN CONTAINERS WELCOME!
Giddy Up!
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
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