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Tag: video
it might be that the default risk is only $300b. by comparison, the tech crash was $9t.
2007-12-05: this is hilariously funny
2008-03-16:
a newsteam ventures to one of LA’s new shantytowns made up of people who’ve lost their homes in the subprime meltdown and now live in tents, improvised shacks or RVs on abandoned land. It’s the contemporary Hooverville, and, as the Subliterate Cinephile notes, I wonder why I found out about this from the BBC and not US media.
maybe we can get all the religious nonsense off of youtube and onto this?
after 4 years of intensive collaboration, 18 leading mathematicians and computer scientists from the US and Europe have successfully mapped E8, one of the largest and most complicated structures in mathematics.
math is moving towards high energy physics style collaboration
2007-11-15:
keep in mind that this is just a theory, it has no experimental support, and it might be wrong. I think it’s got a shot, which is why I work on it, but it’s still just a developing theory. So don’t go crazy, people; but yes, it is pretty damn cool. This is an all-or-nothing kind of theory – it’s either going to be exactly right, or spectacularly wrong. I’m the first to admit this is a long shot. But it ain’t over till the LHC sings.
2008-10-14: it’s all about the E8
Although the show generally ran only 3 minutes long, it could be hard to digest. It used foul language. Frank posted it at different times each day. It was full of inside jokes that discouraged new viewers from jumping in midway through the year; for those who wanted to try to catch up, his website offered an archive, which will stay available. Ze Frank preferred to play for what he calls the proletariati.
an Australian performance artist whose works focus heavily on futurism and extending the capabilities of the human body. As such, most of his pieces are centered around his concept that the human body is obsolete.
He explained how his performances explore the body as an evolving architecture.
if you expect to die young, you take much increased risks
She gave video cameras to soldiers in Iraq and had them shoot the movie, called The War Tapes. The clips she played show soldiers driving through fields with bombs going off around them, and car bombing victims seconds after the explosions
The team behind Battlestar Galactica is providing fans with a web clipboard of special effects shots, sound effects and music tracks so they can create their own BSG videos. Executive Producer David Eick will pick the best one, and it will air on the network during an upcoming episode.
maybe it can make up for the suckage in recent episodes
aking a cogent case about how a 10% increase in engineers would create 10x the economic benefits
Gregor J. Rothfuss 