The PowerPoint Anthology of Literature
Visual bytes for a sound bite culture. Yipes!
This was pointed out to me by my daughter. It's a good flash movie of Billy Joel's song. As I watched I realize it reminds me of the video version of Mason William's "Classical Gas" that was shown on the Smother's Brothers tv show.
Here is a link to Classical Gas.com which has " everything you ever wanted to know about that megahit 'Classical Gas'."
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John Perry Barlow has been discovered. In this posting he tells how a post on his blog became yet another forum of debate from both sides of the current political milleau. Barlow's conclusions are different that what I expected, but very much on the high road. You should read it.
This posting closes with:
If we in the anti-Bush forces continue to bray about our moral and intellectual superiority, we will almost certainly piss off the troubled folks in the middle who will decide the future of America in the next election. Unfortunately, elections these days are more about style and policy. I think we're right on the policies - though more thorough and direct engagement with the other side will be necessary to put persuasive sinew into our arguments. But our style sucks. We are too often arrogant, hyperbolic, self-righteous, vindictive, and mean-spirited. Anger, no matter how justified, is not attractive to the unconvinced.
Now would be a good time for us all to come and reason together, and I am grateful to the pro-Bush newcomers to this blog for their willingness to do just that.
Here's a link to Adrian Miles' video log. As further explanation here is the the manifesto for vogs:
vogma: a manifesto
1. a vog respects bandwidth
2. a vog is not streaming video (this is not the reinvention of television)
3. a vog uses performative video and/or audio
4. a vog is personal
5. a vog uses available technology
6. a vog experiments with writerly video and audio
7. a vog lies between writing and the televisual
8. a vog explores the proximate distance of words and moving media
9. a vog is dziga vertov with a mac and a modem
10. a vog is a video blog where video in a blog must be more than video in a blog
Also go here for a more traditional blog: VLOG
Here's a hot tub you can schlepp on top of a care, uses firewood, and seats four (intimately). I want one... no moving parts to break either.
I'd just need to figure out the fire thing since we're not supposed to have open fires at Wintergreen.
Xgrid uses zero configuration Rendezvous to discover available resources, so you never have to enter IP addresses to set up a cluster. An easy-to-use System Preference panel lets you control how your machine gets used by the network, and also tells the cluster which computer can send problems to the group for number crunching. Xgrid takes the grunt work out of splitting jobs and collecting results. Many scientists who already use command line tools in their work will immediately be able to take advantage of Xgrid and have the power of a cluster without the hassle of setup.
BigBlueBall News: 75% of Net Users Connect Sans Browser
Nielsen//NetRatings, reports that three out of every four home and work Internet users, or 76 percent of active Web surfers, access the Internet using a non-browser based Internet application. Media players, instant messengers and file sharing applications are the most popular Internet applications.