Radiohead Secretly Hid an Old App in the Anniversary Edition of OK Computer“Old” is a very relative term when talking about computer history. By the looks of it, however, Radiohead hid a computer program on the tape that comes with the 2. OK Computer, and making it work feels like time travel. That’s because you’ll need an . Well, that’s being a little bit dramatic. Some Redditors realized that the first track on the cassette was the bleepy startup sound for the ZX Spectrum and wondered if the blippy noise at the end of the tape might also be Spectrum- related. Since the Paleolithic home computer used audio cassettes to run software, the idea that the bleeps and blips were actually code was a smart one. The fact that Jonny Greenwood, Radiohead’s lead guitarist and keyboard player, owned a Spectrum ZX and learned to code Sinclair BASIC, the computer’s operating system, sheds even more light on the fun Easter egg. Radiohead even used a Spectrum ZX to create some of the sounds in “Let Down” on the original OK Computer release. But back to the silly computer program. After failing to pump the raw audio through a Spectrum ZX emulator, Redditor Maciej Korsan applied a 3. Hz low pass filter to the noise and tried again. Magically, the Spectrum ZX fired up an adorable little program called “Radiohead.” First came the band members’ names and a date, December 1. OK Computer’s original release date: Followed by one last very endearing line: Then it’s just noise—bright colors, random letters and symbols, and more bright colors. According to You. Tuber Ooo. SLAJEREKoo. O, there’s at least one more Easter egg hidden inside the main Easter egg: “Also, inside the code there’s a hidden, black text on a black background: “congratulations.. We should get out more.”Here’s a video of the full program, courtesy of Ooo. Statistical Techniques By the looks of it, however, Radiohead hid a computer program on the tape that comes with the. SLAJEREKoo. O: It’s unclear when Radiohead made this cute little computer program. If it was indeed in December 1. Aphex Twin (a. k. Richard James) secretly hid a demonic- looking face in one of the tracks on his 1. Windowlicker. The demon face is most likely Richard James himself, doing his sinister smile, and it took two years after the release for anybody to find the image. As with Radiohead’s new Easter egg, neither Aphex Twin nor its record label advertised the hidden message. According to a 2. Wired, an electronic musician calling himself Chaos was “playing around with Win. Amp one evening when he spotted the diabolical face.” Without going into too much detail, James apparently hid the images in this song and others using the Mac- based synthesizer Meta. Synth. If you really want to geek out about it, here’s a great blog post about “the Aphex face” that includes phrases like “logarithmic frequency scale.”If all this leaves you wondering about the future of vinyl and cassette tapes and CDs, that’s a good thing. Radiohead has always gone to brilliantly creative lengths when it comes to making and distributing their albums. The band let customers pay whatever they wanted, including one cent, to download its 2. In Rainbows. Then, they turned around and sold the same fans a tricked out vinyl/CD box set for $8. The boxed edition of OKNOTOK, the OK Computer 2. It includes the remastered album on three vinyl records, along with some drawings, a book of lyrics, some of Thom Yorke’s “scrawled notes,” a sketchbook of “preparatory work,” and, of course, that C9. Spectrum ZX computer program on it. Is it all worth it? That depends on how big a Radiohead fan you are. Stephen Colbert Visits President Trump's (Alleged) Pee Tape Hotel Room. Stephen Colbert took viewers to a Moscow hotel room on his show last night. But it wasn’t just any Moscow hotel room. It was the room where President Trump allegedly had two sex workers urinate on the bed as a sign of disrespect to Barack Obama, who had previously stayed in the same room. And the segment is pretty nerve- racking. By now you’ve probably heard about the alleged Trump pee tape that was filmed by Russian spies in the Presidential Suite of the Ritz Carlton in Moscow. President Trump himself has insisted it’s not real, pointing out in his defense that he’s “very much a germaphobe.” But as 2. Other bizarre stories in the so- called Trump Dossier, first published by Buzzfeed, have since been confirmed. Colbert is the first American TV personality to film the room since Trump allegedly made it rain in 2. And without spoiling too much, I’ll just say that the bed is the least interesting thing about the whole segment. Not only does Colbert give viewers a glimpse at the perspective from sitting in the bed (you’re looking right at the Kremlin) he pulls a stunt that seems to get him in legitimate trouble with hotel security. Again, I won’t spoil to much, but let’s just say the idea that there’s hidden surveillance going on in that room is more or less confirmed. That doesn’t mean the pee tape is real, but given just how bizarre everything in Trump’s orbit has been this year, it’s getting harder and harder to call the idea absurd.
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