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  • Letting your average 8th grader run wild with designing their pages was not a good idea. 90% of the pages on there are absolutely unbearable … Strobing checkerboard backgrounds with yellow text and ten videos playing at once …

    Wired Top Stories 2010

  • Strobing synths and techno beats (and a Kanye West collaboration on the song "Punch Drunk Love") prompt Common, long pigeonholed as a "socially conscious" rapper, to exhibit his inner Lothario.

    DATEBOOK | Dec. 5-1 2008

  • He has passed the time hatching some really insane grandiose plans - he's gonna organize all the Bulbs, see, get him a power base in Berlin, he's already hep to the Strobing Tactic, all you do is develop the knack (Yogic, almost) of shutting off and on at a rate close to the human brain's alpha rhythm, and you can actually trigger an epileptic fit!

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • Letting your average 8th grader run wild with designing their pages was not a good idea. 90% of the pages on there are absolutely unbearable … Strobing checkerboard backgrounds with yellow text and ten videos playing at once …

    Wired Top Stories Eliot Van Buskirk 2010

  • He has passed the time hatching some really insane grandiose plans-he's gonna organise all the Bulbs, see, get him a poower base in Berlin, he's already hep to the Strobing Tactic, all you do is develop a knack of shutting off and on at a rate close to the human brain's alpha rhythm, and you can actually trigger an epileptic fit!

    The Tao of Mac 2009

  • White Light Strobing, from the powerful yet twinkling pop of "Come Over in Your Silver Car" to the melodic and ethereal wash of "Paris to New York" (download both below).

    Spin Magazine Online - 2008

  • "I don't think it [White Light Strobing] really sounds like K's stuff," he says of the seminal label.

    Spin Magazine Online - 2008

  • There are feveral inns, and two very good ones, belonging to two coufins, both of the name of Strobing; one the burgomafter, where I lodge, and the other the poftmafter.

    Travels Through Germany: Containing Observations on Customs, Manners ... 1768

  • Both Lappert and Strobing were Jewish as well as New Yorkers, they were brought together at a news conference in Manhattan in 1946 by the Jewish War Veterans, and later reenacted their experience at a pageant at Madison Square Garden which related the contributions of Jews in America’s wars.

    The Times' News Judgment In Its Obits Of June 7th 2007

  • Larson Electronics Announces New Precision Controlled Strobing and Dimmable

    PRWeb - Daily News Feed 2010

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