Daily Photo: June 14th – For Mart?
So I ran into a FOR MART the other day which I have to remind you is not affiliated with the highly commercialized and popular WAL MART. I just thought this was not so much of a good fake!
Airplane Customer Service!
So we have all seen how the rising fuel prices are causing airline ticket prices to rise. Not only that, but airlines are charging you for your luggage and some are even taking away the horrible peanuts you never really wanted in the first place. The result is that you are paying more and getting less. Here is a parody video you will enjoy.
Police Sirens To Make You Shake!
I came across this news item about 2 weeks ago and I really didn’t know anything about this until I did a little research but apparently the Police are unhappy with their current sirens in the US. They feel that sometimes while in the process of pulling over the driver, their sirens aren’t doing a great job if the driver isn’t paying close attention to what is behind them or if they have their music too loud. I have noticed that sometimes the sirens aren’t loud enough when I have the music going, well the “Rumbler” is a new siren that is said to fix all that.
This new siren is used along with the traditional siren and helps get attention mainly because it can also be felt. The siren can be felt from 200-300 feet away through the use of high output woofers and an amplifier. The main objective is to produce low frequency sound waves, kind of like a subwoofer that ends up shaking everything. The Rumbler does turn off automatically after 10 seconds and seem to be pretty effective.
They aren’t too expensive costing around $350 a siren and was developed by the Illinois-based Federal Signal Corp. It was apparently that motorists werent responding to the traditional sirens and hopefully the addition of the Rumbler can help them to either pull over or make way for patrol cars.
I was able to pull up a video of the Rumbler in action at night. I do not know too much about who took this video or where it was taken but I was able to acquire it through a little bit of searching on Youtube.
Here is another video of the Rumbler in action that was taken by a Police Officer. This one gives you the full Rumbler experience!
Enkay On Video!
Well, its finally coming around soon and you guys get to contribute to the video making process. I have decided that I will do short videos once a week or so. The videos won’t be too long and will probably range from 1 to 4 minutes long.
To start off I wanted to do a few questions from my readers. You can ask me any type of question that you want, as long as its not too obtrusive. I always try to reply to questions and requests in email but to have them done through video might be very interesting.
If you have a question that you would like to see me answer, then just leave me a comment with your question. I will answer all questions as long as they are appropriate. I will write a few questions for myself that I think might be interesting and I will try to record them during one video session this weekend. Let me know what you guys think of this idea.
Hopefully the videos will turn out good and that you guys will like them. So, if you have any question you would like answered, let me know!
Google’s New Scrolling Ad
I noticed an interesting ad by Google on this blog. As many of you know, I use Google Adsense on this blog and lately I noticed a new ad show up on the blog once in a while. This ad is different from most because it has a scroll bar on it allowing you to scroll through the ads to pick one that interests you. I decided to blog about this because I haven’t seen any other blogs notice this so to start off here is a screenshot of the ad with the visible scroll buttons on the bottom.
What seems interesting is that how many people will actually be interested to scroll through an ad manually. I would have thought that an automatic scroll every 30 seconds or so may have been more interesting but that could get annoying if you are on a page for a longer period of time. The idea of the manual scrolling ad is a little confusing to me specially since most people will see a static ad and click on an ad if they are interested however, how many people actually are willing to browse through a scrollable ad to pick one they like. Anyway, it seems like something new that Google is going to try and lets see how it works out for publishers and Google. Have any of you seen an ad like this one elsewhere?
