Crossing Streets In Osaka
November 11, 2005
When crossing busy streets in Osaka (and possibly in other cities around Japan) you are sometimes greeted by a musical tune that’s supposed to help the blind guide their way. This tune is way more interesting than the chirpy noises found in other places. I noticed some people were searching for it on Google and stumbled onto my page so… here it is:
I hope helping strangers like this counts as public service.
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I guess I should’ve had the smarts to know that the player won’t work in non-IE browsers. Here’s the WAV file for download.
November 11th, 2005 at 12:00
Something’s broken, I don’t hear anything. How will I know when to cross the street?
November 11th, 2005 at 19:23
Really? Hmm… can you get to this?
November 11th, 2005 at 23:44
I don’t think it’s broken in non-IE browsers, just that IE uses non-standard tags to embed multimedia. I could be wrong though. Justin?
November 12th, 2005 at 00:34
Yup. Added the link to the file instead for non-IE. And… you said it was broken, not me.