This deal keeps getting worse.
They’re his films. He can do what he wants with them. I’m actually intrigued by what he’s doing, even if I don’t actually want to watch the doctored work. The bummer is that he doesn’t make the originals available. The even bigger bummer is that technology moves quickly and devices capable of of playing the original video releases are quickly disappearing.
On the bright side, we’ll eventually see some beautiful homebrew digital versions of the original films. Perhaps they exists already.
You indeed will see them, because some awesome folks have been working on them for a while already. The Despecialized editions. The samples they have up are pretty. awesome.
My friend and colleague Mark Fonseca Rendeiro’s article about our latest trip to Afghanistan is now available if you’re interested to hear more about Small World News and the work that we do.
James Hansen, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, was arrested yesterday as part of the ongoing protests against the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
That’s what I call putting your money where your scientific mouth is.
(via Discovery News)
James Hansen is a bad ass. I attended a lecture he gave at the Bell House a few years about his book Storms of my Grandchildren. He spoke with the kind of conviction and spirit that I have only seen a few other times from scientists. His book is full of good information, read it.
New court filing reveals how the 2004 Ohio presidential election was hacked
New court filing reveals how the 2004 Ohio presidential election was hacked
A new filing in the King Lincoln Bronzeville v. Blackwell case includes a copy of the Ohio Secretary of State election production system configuration that was in use in Ohio’s 2004 presidential election when there was a sudden and unexpected shift in votes for George W. Bush.
The filing also includes the revealing deposition of the late Michael Connell. Connell served as the IT guru for the Bush family and Karl Rove. Connell ran the private IT firm GovTech that created the controversial system that transferred Ohio’s vote count late on election night 2004 to a partisan Republican server site in Chattanooga, Tennessee owned by SmarTech. That is when the vote shift happened, not predicted by the exit polls, that led to Bush’s unexpected victory. Connell died a »
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I HAVE FOUND THE GREATEST GIF OF ALL
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Easily one of the top three shots in Cosmos.
Space shuttle Atlantis is seen through the window of a Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA) during today’s launch of #STS135 via Bob Jacobs
FINAL FLIGHT The space shuttle Atlantis lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center on Friday. The flight is the 135th and final planned mission for NASA’s shuttle program; the ship carried four astronauts and 8,000 pounds of spare parts and supplies to the International Space Station at speeds reaching 15,000 miles an hour. (Photo: Morry Gash / AP via the New York Times)