-
This is why you tie around the belay loop AND the harness.
Category: Of Interest
Those miscellaneous things that just must be published.
Beep beep..around the earth it goes..
This satellite tracking program gives the impression that we have so much junk floating around the earth that it is amazing we can launch a shuttle or rocket without knocking something down.
A blogger’s mother has passed
Alice of 10,000 Monkies and a Camera lost her mother in a car accident yesterday. Give her some good words.
I find it interesting how blogging creates connections between arbitary people. Without blogging, these arbitary people conceivably would never know of one another yet through the Internet we learn their faces, their secrets, their worries, their joys and we feel connected. So when a blogger suffers a loss of life or a hardship, other bloggers feel it too. Our world is smaller than ever and that is good.
Trash is public domain
If you are a celebrity, make sure you shred your nude photographs (work safe) before throwing them in the trash and hiring someone to remove your trash for you.
Picture of United States Population Density
Time Magazine has put together a picture showing US population density. 80% of the US live in metropolitian areas. Notice the great emptiness in Nevada. Can you say, "nuclear test site?" I knew you could.
In other charts, we have the cancer survival rates. Basically lists a bunch of cancers and shows the percentage of people that have survived 5, 10, 15 and 20 years with the diagnosis.
Now if we could create a chart that shows population density, cancer survival rates by region, and incidents of cancer by region, I think I could decide where to move.
Videoblogging for money
Here is a little hint of what is to come. Google has announced that it will pay videographers $5 for every 1000 times their video is viewed on Google Video. This is not YouTube! This is Google’s answer to Revver which appends an advertisement to the end of user’s videos then pays the video maker 50% of the ad revenue every time it is clicked. Popular shows like Ze Frank’s The Show use Revver for revenue. He also sells candy. The Mentos guys made a bundle on Revver.
Grobe and Voltz, for instance, pocketed $35,000, their share of the ad revenue paid to them by Revver, for their first Coke-and-Mentos video back in July. Now, the pair could earn big bucks from Google if the latest video is a hit. The two are also hosting a video-making contest sponsored by Coca-Cola, which paid them an undisclosed amount. [Source]
I have been dying to try video publishing but I don’t feel I have the time (Ze Frank spends 6 hours creating his show of roughly 3 minutes; Rocketboom uses a staff and an entire day to produce a 3 to 8 minute show) or the tools (I really think a Mac makes video editing easier) to do it right. Maybe I should do it for the money instead of fun!
See also a similar articlea similar article now located on Tech Consumer (thanks Bob Caswell) and C|Net discussing Revver.
links for 2006-10-30
$5000 by tomorrow
I just saw that Blingo is guaranteeing a $5000 winner by Halloween..um.. that’s tomorrow. Current prizes:
- Brand New Ford Mustang!
or $20,000 cash, your choice- $5,000 cash
- 42-Inch Plasma TV
or $2,500 cash, your choice- $1,000 cash
- $500 cash
- $50 Amazon.com Gift Certificate *
- $25 Amazon.com Gift Certificate *
- $10 iTunes Gift Certificate or Fandango Movie Ticket, your choice. The movie certificate is good for one adult admission at one of the many participating theaters across the country (find one near you).
* Amazon.com is not a sponsor of this promotion. Amazon, Amazon.com, and the Amazon.com logo are registered trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Amazon.com gift certificates are issued by A2Z Gift Certificates, Inc. and are redeemable only at www.amazon.com
. See www.amazon.com/gclegal for terms and conditions of use of Amazon.com gift certificates.
I also see that someone recently won the $500 prize.
Can’t snuff the Firefly
The series ended abruptly with no closure. Through fan support Serenity the movie was spawned to bring closure. It did poorly in the box office with $38 million in ticket sales not clearing the $39 million production budget. Why?! DVD sales helped. The fans begged for more. Whedon has declared Firefly over. Now Universal sues to fan to stop promoting Firefly/Serenity. So, now the fans are billing Universal for time spent promoting the movie.
See also and also. Expect a take down notice on this so if you like it download it with keepvid. Of course, there is a wikipedia entry.
links for 2006-10-28
-
(tags: toread)
-
(tags: wordpress newsletter)
Stupid Lawyers DMCA Comedy Central Clips on Youtube
Colbert joked about needing a check for $700million since roughly a third of all movies on YouTube were from the Colbert Report at the time of YouTube’s $1.6billion sale to Google. "Jon Stewart and Daily Show Executive Producer even encouraged viewers to watch the show on the Internet."
I received a couple of emails from YouTube this afternoon (see below) notifying me that a third party (probably attorneys for Comedy Central) had made a DMCA request to take down Colbert Report and Daily Show clips. [Source]
When will the lawyers and the RIAA et al realise that the distribution of clips on mediums like YouTube only create benefit and popularity for the program, artist, album and so forth. Can old dogs like Senator Stevens just not learn these new tricks.
Irritating Game
This game (click the British flag for English) has two balls and two paddles. As you move your mouse left and right the short paddle moves horizontally while the long paddle rocks left to right. The goal is to keep the ball on the long paddle from rolling off while not letting the bouncing ball past the small paddle. Very challenging!
links for 2006-10-27
-
(tags: toread)
Don’t believe ANYTHING on the Internet
Fake picture — Real pciture The fake site might be work safe as long as you don’t want to see the photo without the blur. If you don’t want to click the links, the fake picture shows Donald Duck "accidentally" pulling down Christina Aguilera’s top to reveal a pierced nipple on her right breast.
Faker’s site is not work safe! Includes nudity.
Just remember, use Snopes and other resources to confirm information. Photoshop in the hands of a skilled artist can make almost anything look real. Learn to laugh.
Today’s Irony
Nearly one million bank workers in India are on strike…wait it for it…because they don’t want their jobs outsourced!
The unions are against outsourcing of bank work and a government proposal to merge 27 state-run banks to compete in the global economy. [Source]
This tidbit brought to us by Knoxviews and Michael Silence.
