Beanbag
31st October 2003, 06:24 AM
I went to the site listed in last week's commentary to take a look at the resonance key:
http://www.electronichealing.co.uk/products/energy.htm
and instead had a great time reading the ads for the Disk Doctor (no, has nothing to do with hard drive maintenance), Water Enhancer, and the Wellness Card. I suppose to a naive mind one could imagine "resonant" patterns being impressed on a CD-R, or some such hogwash, but really, how many of these things does this company actually sell? How many folks out there are --STUPID-- enough to buy a magic CD that cures all if you wear it?
It might be interesting to buy one of each and plug them into a drive to see what's actually on the disk. Maybe it's a clue to what happened to all those Barry Manilow's Greatest Hits CD's, or perhaps someone figured out what to do with those millions of AOL disks.
The profit margin has to be obscene. I can buy CR-R's for less than 10 cents each, and that's retail. The credit-card size costs more, say about 50 cents.
What happens if you play them back at a higher speed, using the speed shift utilities in most sound editing packages? I have this memory of the old Cheech and Chong routine, where the guy played Black Sabbath at 78 speed, and saw God.
Regards;
Beanbag
(who thought he'd seen it all with the local kids in Boquillas selling white rocks dyed purple with food coloring to the touristas for 25 cents each, and yeah, I bought one to support the local industry).
http://www.electronichealing.co.uk/products/energy.htm
and instead had a great time reading the ads for the Disk Doctor (no, has nothing to do with hard drive maintenance), Water Enhancer, and the Wellness Card. I suppose to a naive mind one could imagine "resonant" patterns being impressed on a CD-R, or some such hogwash, but really, how many of these things does this company actually sell? How many folks out there are --STUPID-- enough to buy a magic CD that cures all if you wear it?
It might be interesting to buy one of each and plug them into a drive to see what's actually on the disk. Maybe it's a clue to what happened to all those Barry Manilow's Greatest Hits CD's, or perhaps someone figured out what to do with those millions of AOL disks.
The profit margin has to be obscene. I can buy CR-R's for less than 10 cents each, and that's retail. The credit-card size costs more, say about 50 cents.
What happens if you play them back at a higher speed, using the speed shift utilities in most sound editing packages? I have this memory of the old Cheech and Chong routine, where the guy played Black Sabbath at 78 speed, and saw God.
Regards;
Beanbag
(who thought he'd seen it all with the local kids in Boquillas selling white rocks dyed purple with food coloring to the touristas for 25 cents each, and yeah, I bought one to support the local industry).