Slate recently carried an Explainer about similar events in Sri Lanka. Essentially, the explanation was: "We don't know how or why, but some animals knew that danger was coming."
The elephants in the Reuters story only picked up the humans after being directed to by their keepers, rather than doing it of their own accord. That's more plausible than the animals just picking people up and running for the hills.
As good as it is, that track (the mp3, I'm not sure who added the pictures to it) is ripped from a charity album made by a pair of doctors in aid of a cancer charity. There are a few other tracks on the 'listen' page of that site, although none of them are as good as 'London Underground'.
Try changing the sound device Quicktime is using: Edit -> Preferences -> Quicktime Preferences, then choose 'Sound Out' from the drop-down box. Then pick another device from the 'Choose a device for playback' list and close the dialogue box. Which device depends on your system.
I've had this happen a couple of times and changing the device usually fixes it. Hope that helps.
That-one-book-about-a-transport-system-between-realities I can't recall the title now.
The End of Eternity?
posted by Bart Malik 18 years ago
In "Elephants save lives before tsunami strikes"
Slate recently carried an Explainer about similar events in Sri Lanka. Essentially, the explanation was: "We don't know how or why, but some animals knew that danger was coming." The elephants in the Reuters story only picked up the humans after being directed to by their keepers, rather than doing it of their own accord. That's more plausible than the animals just picking people up and running for the hills.
posted by Bart Malik 19 years ago
In "London Underground: shoot them all with a rifle"
As good as it is, that track (the mp3, I'm not sure who added the pictures to it) is ripped from a charity album made by a pair of doctors in aid of a cancer charity. There are a few other tracks on the 'listen' page of that site, although none of them are as good as 'London Underground'.
posted by Bart Malik 19 years ago
In "The Periodic Table of Comic Books"
Well, I liked it. Pointless, but cool.
posted by Bart Malik 19 years ago
In "picture this:"
That's Yamauchi, not Ballmer, damnit.
posted by Bart Malik 19 years ago
The interview with Ballmer is a fake, apparently. It's a good one, though.
posted by Bart Malik 19 years ago
In "Curious George: QuickTime Problem"
Try changing the sound device Quicktime is using: Edit -> Preferences -> Quicktime Preferences, then choose 'Sound Out' from the drop-down box. Then pick another device from the 'Choose a device for playback' list and close the dialogue box. Which device depends on your system. I've had this happen a couple of times and changing the device usually fixes it. Hope that helps.
posted by Bart Malik 19 years ago
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