Douglas Trumbull – Director of films Silent Running & Brainstorm. Architect of the visual effects for Blade Runner. Also inventor of the ‘slit scanning’ technique for Kubricks 2001 eyeball/stargate sequence [youtube]lVxoTjR5OTE[/youtube]
Year: 2023
To anyone who is paying attention, things look doomed. Fortunately for American capitalism, nobody is paying attention. They never have. Source: alternet.org As an Anglo European white guy from a very long line of white guys, I want to thank all the brown, black, yellow and red people for a […]
Source: https://tvnz.co.nz/technology-news/slinky-answer-oil-leak-3608555 As oil giant BP pledges billions of dollars to clean up the Gulf oil spill, two Kiwi entrepreneurs think they may have the answer with their home grown invention. According to United States government estimates, up to four million barrels of oil have spewed into the ocean since […]
The author makes the case for another “Tunguska” explosion near Tapanui. – Ed https://totalizm.nazwa.pl/tapanui.htm
Did the US drop tactical nuclear weapons on Iraq/Afghanistan – You bet! UK, July 4 (Pal Telegraph, by Peter Eyre) – You may find this story hard to believe and at the same time challenge as to why anyone would use such weapons having no regard for other humans that […]
… or A history of the Internet The history of the Internet By Melih Bilgil Motiongraphics Documentary with PICOL icons 2009 The history of the Internet History of the Internet from Melih Bilgil on Vimeo.
Source: abc.net.au So much of the analysis of how we respond to climate change assumes that economic growth and emissions reduction are compatible goals. But is this wishful thinking? To question maximising economic growth as an organising principle of society seems close to economic heresy. Enter Tim Jackson, a professor […]
Source: floridaoilspilllaw.com [youtube]X1mI-DJII1U[/youtube] Rush Transcript Excerpt Susan Shaw, Marine Toxicologist: If I can tell you what happens — because i was in the oil — to people… Shrimpers throwing their nets into water… [then] water from the nets splashed on his skin. … [He experienced a] headache that lasted 3 […]