Video | Trailer – Carbon Nation

A documentary that apparently plays on a kind of reverse psychology card and instead of emphasizing the bad focuses on what to do to make it good. Release date unknown for the moment (or I just couldn’t find it), but will definitely give it a view when it comes out. They’ve managed to get some influential individuals for interviews,  which hopefully means this isn’t yet another example of generic film-making.  Just not sure if the title holds up to the premise of the documentary – since they mention how the subject matter affects the whole planet I’d probably go with something a bit more grand scheme-ish than ‘nation’, but that’s just me being anal about petty details again:)

Trailer here.

(via: Treehugger)

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Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate posts)

USEFUL STUFF

• [Nano] Faster, Cheaper DNA Sequencing
• [Future] ‘Pre-crime’ detector shows promise (Minority Report, take two!)
• [Nature] An Arctic Sea “Foaming” with Methane: What Now? (the most disturbing thing I’ve read in a while!!! More here)
• [Man-made] Scientists Develop Plastic-Producing Bacteria
• [Astronomy] TED Talks – Peter Diamandis: Taking the next giant leap in space
• [Psychology] [Politics] Massively-Multiplayer Decepticon (yeah, and elephants can fly in mid-air air:P)

ENTERTAINMENT

• The Evolution of Mobile Phones 1985 – Today
• Record-Breaking Tower Tilts More Than Pisa
• Test your color IQ (I got an 8 out of a 100)
• The mating habits of the water shrew
• Rubik’s Mirror Blocks: The Cube Taken To New Dimensions of Trickiness
• The Great Dog Escape (you’ve gotta see it to believe it…and turn off the annoying music:P)

WEEKLY TRIBUTE

A small tribute to Google. As much as they’ve been receiving some bad PR lately, they’re my personal choice of email, calendar, news aggregator, homepage, freeware 3D modeling, and I better stop before I sound like a really bad salesperson!

Also, they’ve

• recently celebrated their 10′th birthday
• unveiled the open-source mobile OS Android, which will hopefully be a match to the iPhone’s V.I.P.-ish politics!!!
• launched Google Moderator, Project 10^100, an energy modeling plug-in for SketchUp, and are constantly improving and inventing
• begun lobbying to open up unused broadcast spectrum, which we’ll probably hear more of in the near future
• seriously started considering of deploying their supercomputers out to sea or finding alternatives to lower their costs
• and are pretty much in-our-face whenever we use the net. Free of charge!

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(via: all the usual and unusual blogs and sites that I’ve got in Google Reader)

Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate posts)

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] ‘Shake-up’ for internet proposed
• [IT] Google Faces Off With Compete, Alexa, Comscore, Quantcast (And Soon Firefox) (dunno about you but I’m kinda starting to feel the dark side here, and Google’s new, khm, innocent-looking little ‘g’ favicon is starting to look and feel more and more like a silly front for the master of world domination of online information that is , khm, well “G”oogle)
• [Eco] Greenhouse Gases: Where Do They Come From? (it’s just one picture, but I just couldn’t take my eyes off of it…)
• [Economy] Important info about energy saver light bulbs! (or the stupidity/cunningness of a newly passed energy bill in the USA…when China’s got you by the balls you can’t just say “I’m sorry”, can you now)
• [Sociology] [Psychology] The Top 10 TED Talks
• [Man-made] [Psychology] “It’ll never work!” (a list of some of humanity’s biggest invetions and a bigger and in some cases, surprising list of non-believers who were apparently full of sh*t)

ENTERTAINMENT

• The 5 Creepiest Advertising Techniques of the (Near) Future (these guys are usually a laughing riot, but why I put this in the “fun” section is honestly beyond me!!!)
• Shaq Uses Freestyle Rap To Rip On Kobe For Losing NBA Finals (these two idiots should get married already)
• Schwarzenegger vs. Stallone ( this is some heavy sh*t…I’m dead serious!:) )
  
• What is obscene these days? (or how it’s OK to watch porn with midgets peeing on each other while stroking a donkey, but if they light a joint, well that’s (still) a no-no)
• Ten Million Pixel Comcast Display Wows Viewers With Un-throttled Ultra HD Video
• Realistic Hollywood Sex Scene

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
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George Denis Patrick Carlin ( May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008 )

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The following is compiled from different people who could put in writing what I felt on that sad Monday morning much better that I could:

The world is just a little less intelligent this morning. The biggest spokesperson for common sense, the person who taught me the real value of truth, far beyond what my parents taught me, has passed away.
Mr. Carlin was the screaming voice telling me to question authority, informing me that everyone is full of shit and to not trust anyone, cause we can’t even trust ourselves.Thank you George, for all these years of making me think and laugh at the same time.
I guess all that I can say now is, “Adios, Motherfucker.”

Your death was untimely, and would still be untimely even if you would live to be 142, on life-support, in a vegetative state and with a limp dick. I never even realized it up until now, but you were one of the few living heroes I had. And now you’re gone. You’re still my hero, tho! Fuck Joe Pesci, I’m praying to George Carlin!!

…will try and skip Sundays;)