h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

"The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented.

"Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of Bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create deposits."

Sir Josiah Stampm, Director of the Bank of England 1928-41



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_1dhgwtAGQ&feature=PlayList&p=DECF789EBF5E23DC&index=0&playnext=1

Mar should have posted this here, but I'll do it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb3iPP-tHdA

Packs Of Robots Will Hunt Uncooperative Humans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmVaLp8icoU&feature=player_embedded



Steve Wright of Leeds Metropolitan University is an expert on police and military technologies, and last year correctly predicted this pack-hunting mode of operation would happen. “The giveaway here is the phrase ’a non-cooperative human subject’,” he told me:

“What we have here are the beginnings of something designed to enable robots to hunt down humans like a pack of dogs. Once the software is perfected we can reasonably anticipate that they will become autonomous and become armed.

We can also expect such systems to be equipped with human detection and tracking devices including sensors which detect human breath and the radio waves associated with a human heart beat. These are technologies already developed.”

Another commentator often in the news for his views on military robot autonomy is Noel Sharkey, an AI and robotics engineer at the University of Sheffield. He says he can understand why the military want such technology, but also worries it will be used irresponsibly.

“This is a clear step towards one of the main goals of the US Army’s Future Combat Systems project, which aims to make a single soldier the nexus for a large scale robot attack. Independently, ground and aerial robots have been tested together and once the bits are joined, there will be a robot force under command of a single soldier with potentially dire consequences for innocents around the corner.”

The Prince's Rainforests Project awareness campaign video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&v=boEDMVNAPk4

anhaga should have posted this one here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMNrVEi54yA

http://mindcrap.com/media/755/Body_Invaders/

Parasitic wasps invade caterpillar and take over it's brain!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT4aRzF4HII

Ignore the video - that's not important - It's the music. I know I recognise it but I can't think where I've heard it.

HELP!!!

For intellectual stimulus though, watch this.

http://fora.tv/2009/02/04/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson_The_Pluto_Files#%20

Credit to Anhaga for pointing me in this direction
U215480

It's not something out of Orf's carmina burana made poppy, is it?

Don't watch the video!!!

Okay, clive, it's a remix of Carl Orff's Fortuna Imperetrix Mundi (Fortune, Empress of the World) the second part of Carmina Burana. I don't know who's remix it is.

Ah is it?

I mean I'm sure I've seen it in a context somewhere else (on a tv show or an opening credits somewhere) and it's really bugging me that I recognise it* but can't think why.

*that specific remix too.

Crikey, I have to watch my margins:

Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra: Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi, No 2: Fortune Plango Vulnera (I mourn the wounds of Fortune)

that's the bit I think it is.

I think it's it, but I'm going back to Tyson.

brian and eileen's wedding music video:


http://vimeo.com/1531870?pg=embed&sec=

2009 Great Arcata to Ferndale Kinetic Sculpture Race, parts 1 and 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VndHSEyYYOg&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGF_pbYuNSQ&feature=channel_page

It's old and it's long, but it's Screaming Lord Byron:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXvAaNcXNzI

An extraordinary animation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9mxOe52BPs

The images is a painstaking animation of a contemporary portrait, and the poem is well read.

I am surprised more work has not been done to animate paintings, this is by no means perfect, but it's a taster for what could be done.

" ... what could be done."

Interesting, it reminded me of one of my favorites, which won a well-deserved short animation Academy Award for Joan C. Gratz:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J-ypC8M35o

Holy Moley, that's superb. Awesome. Thank you for that. I'm slightly stunned by it.

And here's another: an animation of the Bayeaux tapestry. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDaB-NNyM8o

Very nice. I did not realize they used storyboards for things like the Norman invasion of England. But a storyboard always helps, people know what to do ...