:: Perpendiculous ::

Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Hitachi announced that they've developed a technology called perpendicular storage which will enable about 10x the storage to come to comparably-sized hard drives (get ready for a 600GB iPod), and to communicate this achievement to the media/public, they've put together a flash animation in the style of Schoolhouse Rock, which implies they think the average tech intelligence of the media/public is comparable to a small child. That's ok with me.

It will be interesting to the following, non-mutually-exclusive groups:

• Fans of the original Schoolhouse Rock TV series
• Simpsons aficionados familiar with the episode featuring a parody of that series (and really, you can't call yourself an "aficionado" unless you are)
• Gen-Xers and Gen-Yers who remember the 1996 album tribute to Schoohouse Rock, featuring Biz Markie, Blind Melon, Daniel Johnston, The Lemonheads, a pre-TeaNY/Play/LES-fixture Moby, Pavement, and Skee-Lo
• Anyone dying to hear the superparamagnetic effect discussed in song

Posted by morland @ 06:27 PM

:: Comments ::

Hello, you're totally leaving out the amazing track on Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks! by the hit band Man...Or Astroman?

A great album.

Posted by: a superhero by night on April 5, 2005 11:51 PM

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