A Film about Film

A Kodak factory documentary on the film-making process from back in 1958. It’s in German, but subtitled in English. Pretty neat, even if you’re not a photographer.
Kodak film – High band width

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Technology marches on

A nifty series of photos from the Chicago Tribune featuring cutting-edge futuristic technology that had to wait a while before it made the impact the inventors hoped.
High-tech once upon a time — chicagotribune.com

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3D Jitter

Some examples of a clever technique adapting antique stereoscopes for onscreen view:
cursivebuildings

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Pilate voted “Present”

The Obama campaign has been astroturfing the “Pilate was a Governor, Jesus was a community organizer” line for a couple weeks now. I’m not a Biblical scholar, but 12 years in a Christan school left me with enough residual knowledge to know that it was historically nonsensical, as well as just plain dumb. Here’s a [...]

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Remember

Remember
Originally uploaded by bcostin
A photo from NASA showing smoke and dust billowing from Ground Zero. And some appropriate words from James Lileks:
“The world will not end. It will roll around in its orbit until Sol expires of famine or indigestion. In the end we’re all ash anyway – but even as ash, we matter. The [...]

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Energy independence or moonshine?

Rand Simberg, my favorite blogger for things space and science related, points out the flaws in counting on an “Apollo Program for energy” as a serious solution.
But my favorite is when I hear people call for a “Manhattan Project for energy”. We already had one of those about 65 years ago, and it found a [...]

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Tunguska, 100 years later

The Tunguska Event was 100 years ago today, in 1908. A rock fell from the sky, exploded in midair, and devastated a huge swath of Siberia with a 5-megaton blast. Had it hit a populated area it could have been a catastrophe.
It could happen again, with little or no warning, at any time. Unfortunately, despite [...]

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Cedar Rapids vs New Orleans

I was thinking along these same lines myself. So, any rumors about Iowans resorting to cannibalism yet?

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President Lincoln, call your office.

Some Hawaiian activists who miss their former monarchy are making a nuisance of themselves.

Let’s just hope they don’t give those Texian holdouts any ideas. Remember the Alamo!

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Today we’ll be reading from Pelosi 4:22

Speaker Pelosi’s favorite Earth Day Biblical passage has drawn some attention:
Biblical Scholars Challenge Pelosis Scripture Quote — 04/23/2008
I suspect her verse appears right after Ezekiel 25:17, or maybe somewhere before Armaments 2:21.
It’s easy enough to check these things using free online concordances, if accuracy is important to you. Of course there’s really no need to [...]

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