Now is ((stereo))

Part­ly to annoy peo­ple, and part­ly to add an “Autraliana” feel to the site I’ve added a short looped sound bite. Ten point to any­one that can tell me what it is, and where I sam­pled if from. (You can turn the sound off, but if you can’t fig­ure out how to do that by your­self then you deserve to lis­ten to it).
In oth­er moves to waste your band­width I’ve added an ani­mat­ed gif in the top left — most­ly like­ly I’ll get real­ly sick of that in a few days and change it to a flash ani­ma­tion so I can do more inter­est­ing, less repet­i­tive things. Then again I might not.

9 thoughts on “Now is ((stereo))”

  1. I like the ani­mat­ed gif. I can’t hear the sound, though, as I don’t have a sound card. Does it say ‘not… hap­py… jan…’? If not, then it prob­a­bly should

  2. Hmm, the “not… hap­py… jan…” sound would also be a good one, but Richard has as yet not emailed it to me, so no, but a good guess.
    As for the graph­ic, I think it gains a lot by being so sim­ple. It has giv­en me some ideas of where to move the over­all style of the site. Which is good, because I’ve real­ly just been try­ing dif­fer­ent things and see­ing how they look. (Yes I know your not sup­posed to do that on a live web site, so).

  3. The sound should rememe­ber if you turned it off. With a cook­ie or some­thing.
    I think I know what the sound is, not sure where it comes from though. Def­i­nite­ly not too intru­sive which is good.

  4. It’s a man wav­ing a thick piece of card­board in the wind.
    Richard has­n’t sent me Not Hap­py Jan yet either — the swine.

  5. Hmm, I haven’t ever played with cook­ies… so I guess this would be an actu­al­ly use­ful rea­son for look­ing into them. Then again I kind of like the idea of forc­ing peo­ple to turn it off each time. Per­son­al­ly I real­ly like the sound and leave it on (which does strange things when I’m lis­ten­ing to music).
    And yes, Alan is right about what the sound is, but the ques­tion is ‘Which man?’.

  7. Aha, Opera mocks your embed­ded MP3. I down­loaded for a lis­ten any­way. If it’s not the Obvi­ous Man, then I don’t know who it is.
    Wow, “not sup­posed to do that on a live web site.” If I had a pen­ny; but you’re hard­ly, say, ANZ.com. 😉
    Inci­den­tal­ly, you can get “not hap­py Jan” from Audio­Galaxy, the world’s best ever music slur­py thing (even nicer than Nap­ster, IMHO).

  8. It is indeed Rolf Har­ris, as every­one has by now guessed. Although the imagery of Kylie play­ing the wob­ble­board is beau­ti­ful.
    Grum­bling about Audio­Galaxy which is good in the­o­ry, but with­out an ‘offi­cial’ Mac client I’m not thrilled (and what’s worse is they seem to be going out of their way to delib­er­ate­ly break the unof­fi­cial Mac client).

  9. Does any­one have access to (or sim­ply just HAVE) the “Not.…Happy.…Jan!” mp3 men­tioned above — I have tried to find it all over bnut with no suc­cess.

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