Archive for the 'Media' Category
Ten Plotlines You’ll Find in Science Fiction — Over and Over Again
December 28th, 2011This topic needs a far weirder treatment than the khaki-clad nine-to-fivers at io9 are capable of providing. Maybe Brainsturbator will do this properly someday. For an unabridged version, see Secret Sun. Via: io9: Science fiction is a genre of limitless possibilities, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t a few ideas writers keep coming back to […]
Documentary About the Failure of McDonald’s in Bolivia
December 26th, 2011I’m lovin’ it. Via: Global Post: It’s the country that turned its back on McDonald’s. The fast food giant added the traditional llajwa sauce to its classic patties, but still Bolivians weren’t conviced. So after five years, McDonald’s closed its eight branches and left the country in 2002. Now a new documentary, “¿Por qué quebró […]
Member of Family Closely Linked to Eugenics Movement Makes Film Promoting, Among Other Things, Free Energy Technology from Aliens
November 10th, 2011Update: Impressions After Seeing the Film I saw Thrive and, on balance, I definitely recommend it. With regard to eugenics, my concern about Foster Gamble seems to have been a case of guilt by association. The film actually mentions eugenics. While it would have been nice to see some kind of disclosure about his family’s […]
Major Manufacturers Have Ceased Production of New Motion Picture Film Cameras
October 16th, 2011Via: Salon: We might as well call it: Cinema as we knew it is dead. An article at the moviemaking technology website Creative Cow reports that the three major manufacturers of motion picture film cameras — Aaton, ARRI and Panavision — have all ceased production of new cameras within the last year, and will only […]
Geek Fight Club
October 5th, 2011Uppercut from California is a place. on Vimeo.
Researchers Develop fMRI-Based Model to Reconstruct Moving Images that People Are Seeing
September 23rd, 2011Many articles that I’ve read about this don’t mention the little detail that this is based on data obtained through the use of fMRI. This MIT Technology Review piece deals with that right up front. In case you don’t know, fMRI is not a technology that we’re going to be walking around with anytime soon. […]
Ghosts with Shit Jobs
September 13th, 2011I wish it wasn’t just a trailer. Via: ghostswithshitjobs.com:
Conspiracy of Silence
September 13th, 2011Via: YouTube: Related: The Franklin Cover-up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska by John W. DeCamp
Blind
September 6th, 2011Via: blind-film.net:
Biological ‘Computer’ Destroys Cancer Cells: Diagnostic Network Incorporated Into Human Cells
September 3rd, 2011This is interesting, especially if you liked the film, I Am Legend. Via: Science Daily: Researchers led by ETH professor Yaakov Benenson and MIT professor Ron Weiss have successfully incorporated a diagnostic biological “computer” network in human cells. This network recognizes certain cancer cells using logic combinations of five cancer-specific molecular factors, triggering cancer cells […]
