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Queen covers

For decades, covers of Queen songs have been popular. In the last couple of weeks, three have been a little crazier than usual.

First, The Muppets do Bohemian Rhapsody.

Second, an epic amount of work goes into Automatic Mario playing Don’t Stop Me Now.

And finally, The Daily Show present a Tiger Woods montage (below).

Ambient Music at Disney World

The ambient music at Disney World, originally designed to just be enjoyable, soon became an integral part of the fantasy experience. But the uneven volume bothered Mr. Q, and he explains how…

… the engineers had to design and construct, on their own, one of the most complex and advanced audio systems ever built.

This from Dustin Curtis’ blog. Also the home of the ‘follow me on Twitter‘ experiment, and the recent American Airlines firing UX designer tale.