“A Canadian filmaker travels to the north Pacific Ocean to discover a world of unknown plastic pollution.” Well, that’s what the video says at least, truth be told this videos’ message is much more important because this concrete issue has been so neglected till recently. There’s actually a shitload of waste, floating and sinking in the middle of the Pacific, and cleaning it up is nothing short of impossible. Had no idea that plasti dissolves so fast (due mainly to the sun and the salt in the water), had no idea that abundantly eating fish is, in a way, also eating my own trash. Length | 12: 49
[Man-made]Seth Godin’s Tribes (great presentation on video…I really can’t describe in words how much I feel exactly, EXACTLY(!!!!!!!!!!!!!) like Seth on this one:). Of all the futurists, he is easily the most pragmatic one!)
WEEKLY TRIBUTE A small tribute to PBwiki. I’ve tried a couple of online wiki’s, and this one’s price-performance (for personal use, cost-zero!) is by far the best I’ve seen and used thus far. The interface is incredibly slick and easy to use and is a big time-saver. They also put strong emphasis on back-up (which you can also manually download onto your pc) and guarantee that loss of data will not occur on their watch (how much that can be trusted is of course up to you). What’s also pretty sweet is the ability to invite guests and have them look only at a particular page of your wiki and not the whole thing (so personal info and to-do lists of celebrity hotties are safe from prying eyes). Other cool features: RSS (comes in handy if/when many users update pages), downloading pages as .pdf’s, interface flexibility…
My personal thought is that every single company (even a one-man band) MUST have a personal wiki (or anything that allows fluid and user-friendly knowledge-transfer that will be put to good use) to handle the abundance of info they deal with.
One of those things that simply make my life so much easier and better! Simply a must:) For more on IT that I think is really practical and useful, click here.
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Thanks to this video a whole lot of people now know about the Large hadron collider(and if you pay close attention to the lyrics you even know what it does) and the whole is-the-world-coming-to-and-end affair’s gone so far that the LHC has practically become our bastard love child of some sort…Think of it this way: when the people at the LHC declared they have to close it down till spring 2009 due to equipment failure, everybody instantly spread the online word as if we were talking about the iPhone’s next widget or sth. When’s the last time you were this updated on your local particle physics facility?
Now comes this video, only this time the topic is astrobiology. Surprisingly cool, actually!
See a pattern?:)…
Sure the LHC videos’s got more than 3 million views due to huge publicity spawned by panic, and this video currently isn’t even near the 6 figure number, but it’s apparent that with presenting difficult topics in a fun and easy-to-understand way you can’t go wrong (yeah, somebody give me a Nobel prize right now!).
MY PREDICTION:
before the LHC boom fades away we’ll see a couple more of these rapping-about-science videos (not that difficult a prediction really, but as far as I know I’m the first to make it:P)
the “Astrobiology 2008″ video will become a mild hit, comparison to the LHC videos will be inevitable, as it will be with all future videos of this sort
if enough memorable clever and fun educational videos are made, people will start talking about implementing similar methods into our school systems for better teaching/learning results (which hopefully will occur regardless of everything I’ve said so far!)
So whattcha waiting for? Got a freakishly mind-blowing thing to share with the world what we don’t already know about? Well, get movin’ and make a song out of it. As long as it’s got rhymes, we’ll love you for it:)
[IT] Gmail slows and then won’t send(…or how I clumsily picked the wrong email address for an email, realized my mistake and corrected it to the right one – or so I thought – before clicking “send” (!), but still wound up sending the email to the first email (sorry again @junkies) because during all this time Gmail was “Still working…”…AAAArrrggghhh !*%@!)
WEEKLY TRIBUTE It’s exam time and most of us are in a rush. Lousy weather here in Ljubljana comes mighty handy for a change! I’ve been busy as fuck these last couple of days and most of my friends feel it too:-/…sorry guys, will make it up to you!
A small tribute to spending these exam days as wisely and productively as possible!
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