His 2005 commencement address at Kenyon College, now as a short film [full text]:
In The Interest of Awareness
- Friday, May 17 2013 @ 12:00 pm UTC
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Re-Blogged from: Nanopolitan
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His 2005 commencement address at Kenyon College, now as a short film [full text]:
This is Water - By David Foster Wallace from The Glossary on Vimeo
Re-Blogged from: Nanopolitan
I was looking at my server-stats page and noticed I had a new referrer bringing several thousand hits to BlogDogit.com.
Normally referrer spam is a big problem for blogs and I am using several methods to help combat this phenomenon. Today I noticed I had a new referrer among the Top10 and this got my attention. I never recommend visiting a referrer based on a log entry (this after all is what the spammers are hoping you will do) but this was major "hitage" that I wanted to get to the bottom of. So donning my internet detective cap I discovered that these hits were the result of someone in a high profile forum direct-linking to one of the Philosohoraptor images hosted by BlogDogIt.com. (See the Philosohoraptor widget in masodo's musings topic.)
Once I made this discovery I went directly into Photoshop and crafted a replacement image (shown in the screen grab above.) I simply added the Hosted-By Tag at the bottom of the linked image (of course I could have replaced it with any image - but I play fair) [smiley:;)]
I would like to welcome all the new visitors brought to BlogDogIt
via the free publicity and will only say:
Go 49ers!
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http://www.49erswebzone.com/forum/nfl-draft/172861-what-unusual-reid-selection/
Domino Magnification - J. M. J. van Leeuwen
Abstract: The conditions are investigated under which a row of increasing dominoes is able to keep tumbling over. The analysis is restricted to the simplest case of frictionless dominoes that only can topple not slide. The model is scale invariant, i.e. dominoes and distance grow in size at a fixed rate, while keeping the aspect ratios of the dominoes constant. The maximal growth rate for which a domino effect exist is determined as a function of the mutual separation.
Dutch Science Quiz tests a theory — and nabs a world record in the process.
Hans Van Leeuwen of Leiden University in the Netherlands, published a paper online showing that, theoretically, dominoes could have a size ratio of up to 2:1. That's in an ideal (and probably unrealistic) situation. The team at the Dutch Science Quiz wanted to test the theory. So they built some really huge dominos (the largest is 26 feet high and weighs over 1000 pounds), the above video segment shows what happened.
Source story: physicsbuzz
Video Source: http://www.wetenschap24.nl/
Source: The Internet Archive
An engrossing film noir with Mickey Rooney, Peter Lorre, and Jeanne Cagney. Needing money for a date, Rooney borrows $20 from the cash register, starting a chain of events that includes car theft, burglary, and possibly murder. [IMDB]
Suggested By Jeff Kaplan - Archive.org Blog:
http://blog.archive.org/2010/09/21/little-known-classics-you-need-to-watch/
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Boy and Dog are back for their next adventure. In this episode a romp in the park turns disasterous as the blob monster from beneath the Earth has his own ideas about the game of fetch. Papaw directed from the camera position and Brodyn did the animation work. More fun times with Brodyn at Papaw's house. Enjoy!
[ Download the higher-rez 250px X 188px version 2.9MB ]
Don't Miss: Alien Wars - (Legomation)
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Étienne-Jules Marey, Chronophotograph of a gull in flight, 1887
STORY: Planck rumours will soon become Planck results
The sky as seen by Planck in 2010. Only, they hadn't removed the foregrounds yet.
There's a whole Milky Way galaxy in the way. Why must they make us wait so long?
F.A.Q.
The World's Smallest Movie
Published on Apr 30, 2013 IBM/YouTube
You're about to see the movie that holds the Guinness World Records™ record for the World's Smallest Stop-Motion Film (see how it was made at http://youtu.be/xA4QWwaweWA). The ability to move single atoms — the smallest particles of any element in the universe — is crucial to IBM's research in the field of atomic memory. But even nanophysicists need to have a little fun. In that spirit, IBM researchers used a scanning tunneling microscope to move thousands of carbon monoxide molecules (two atoms stacked on top of each other), all in pursuit of making a movie so small it can be seen only when you magnify it 100 million times. A movie made with atoms. Learn more about atomic memory, data storage and big data at http://www.ibm.com/madewithatoms
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Source: MyModernMet.com
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I have always enjoyed the tips and suggestion presented on the RandomReveals web site so when they suggested I have a look at this "Mindblowing Video Taken From Space Shuttle During Launch" I just knew it would be worth my while. At 8-1/2 minutes my first thought was this is a bit long for a random youtube forray but after hitting play I certainly enjoyed the ride. You should too.
Riding the Booster with enhanced sound - Submitted by michael interbartolo
As a model rocketeer from way-back I could not help but be reminded of the Estes Cineroc Super 8 Rocket Cams and was thereby motivated to see what the internet remembers about the device. My searching led me to RCGrabBag.com where they posted a restoration of a film from Estes Industries promoting the Cineroc.
Please Watch Now: Estes Cineroc Prep and Flight
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