Hoop Dreams tops the list on this list of the Top 10 Sports Documentaries of All Time.
My personal favourite documentary style movie is Touching the Void. It’s the 4th highest grossing documentary of all time.
This one I’ve not yet seen.
Click PLAY or watch an Endless Summer preview on YouTube.
The world’s 3rd richest man:
… Last year my federal tax bill — the income tax I paid, as well as payroll taxes paid by me and on my behalf — was $6,938,744. That sounds like a lot of money. But what I paid was only 17.4 percent of my taxable income — and that’s actually a lower percentage than was paid by any of the other 20 people in our office. Their tax burdens ranged from 33 percent to 41 percent and averaged 36 percent. …
read more in the NY Times
Buffett pays a lower tax rate than his cleaning lady.
The mega-rich should pay higher taxes, certainly. But that’s only going to solve a tiny fraction of the American Debt problem.
… I only link to this as it’s so hilarious to hear Fox Business’s Eric Bolling ask:
… if Buffett, one of the great capitalists of all time, is “completely a socialist” …
Fox News – fair and balanced. 🙂
Right.
I’m pretty much the very best in the world in my field. 🙂
I’m finishing up Idaho Expedition Race. Flying to Vancouver Thursday for the BC Gymnastics Congress. From there back to Calgary the following week. I’ve got to stay one step ahead of the competition in my field.
… What is it I do, again?
Here’s a terrific short video showing what a week long Adventure Race is like. Top teams sleep only 2-4hrs a day on average.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
All 13 teams made it to the finish. They bike a “victory lap” (3-5hrs) up a mountain to finish at the Booze and Blues fest (PDF) in Kellogg Idaho.
… development proposal for their new Apple Campus 2 on a 175 acre area …
Apple is planning for the future. They already have an empty $1 billion data center in Maiden, NC. … Nobody knows what they are going to do with it, perhaps not even Apple.
I’m assuming the company is keeping their options open. Who knows if there will be any more new cash cows after the iPad?
In these times of economic gloom, personal financial trouble, it’s easy to think the world is going to Hell in a hand-basket.
Not so.
Last week The Millennium Project released its 2011 State Of The Future report …
Long Now Foundation – Almost everything is getting better
You have to look at the bigger picture.
I’m quite happy with my new GPS geotagging camera, despite the short battery life.
Friends report being happier than ever with their new cameras, too.
But the biggest innovation in decades may be just around the corner. This video shows how it works.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
PC MAG:
Ren Ng, the founder of Lytro, explains how a camera can capture images that are never out of focus. …
Lytro has big plans. … the Mountain View, CA-based startup said it would soon bring to market a new kind of camera that’s based on light-field photography. The result: photographs that you can focus after you take them. Simply click your mouse on the spot on the picture you want in focus, and it changes before your eyes …
the Lytro camera, assuming it debuts later this year as planned, will mark the first time the tech makes an appearance in a consumer camera …
“If you can shoot first, focus later, it’s going to be the fastest camera you’ve ever used,” Ng said in an interview with PCMag.
“Because when you press the shutter button, it takes the shot instantly. It doesn’t have to wait for the lens to move.”
I spent a number of days in Nice, France only because it was the jumping off point to catch the ferry to Corsica.
Must admit, it’s a very pleasant tourist town with much to do and see.
There are plenty of unconvincing homeless people in Nice, preying on the good natured tourists on holiday. This corner in the old town would be my spot, if I became one of them.
Everybody loves a good pie in the face.
I’m not sure even Gandhi could suppress a giggle.
Jonnie Marbles: Why I foam-pied Rupert Murdoch:
… It’s not difficult to find reasons to dislike Rupert Murdoch. His reach is one of the most insidious and toxic forces in global politics today. The phone-hacking scandal, despicable though it is, barely scratches the surface of the damage done by News International. It is a media empire built on deceit and bile, that trades vitriol for debate and thinks nothing of greasing the wheels of power until they turn in its favour. What’s more, no matter what the grievances he wreaks on those he has never met, his power and money keep him forever safely out of their reach. …
read more – Guardian
I love symbolic actions, even mildly violent ones.
The average person doesn’t know Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO of News Corporation, the world’s second-largest media conglomerate.
His biographer, Michael Wolff, knows Murdoch – Ad Week – How Bad Is News Corp.?
… He is ranked 13th most powerful person in the world in the 2010 Forbes’ The World’s Most Powerful People list. With a personal net worth of US$7.6 billion, he was ranked 117th wealthiest person in the world in March 2011. …
My most trusted source on media, On The Media, thinks he and his son will be going down for the phone hacking scandal.
Not for the scummy and illegal practices, but for the cover-up.
Glad to hear it. His Fox News is the source of more bias, misinformation and downright lies than any other major media.
He bought the Wall Street Journal in 2007, once a bastion of news excellence. They’ve been slammed for jumping on the anti-Muslim bandwagon as quickly as tabloids.
In reaction to the massacre in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik, a Christian extremist:
… Many news organizations leapt to the conclusion that the bombing and shootings were the work of a jihadist terrorist group. The Wall Street Journal laid the blame in that direction in an editorial and then scrubbed away the evidence after it turned out to be incorrect. Rupert Murdoch’s The Sun went with the headline, “Al Qaeda Massacre: Norway’s 9/11.” …
The WSJ tried to cover-up the error rather than make a correction, standard practice.
If you like bashing Murdoch and Fox as I do, read on – Guardian – Even Rupert Murdoch is afraid of Roger Ailes, the paranoid boss of Fox News.
… apparently Murdoch has nothing to do with Fox News, so long as it keeps bringing in massive profits.
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On the bright side, the much maligned NY Times paywall seems to be working. About 250,000 subscribers are paying up to $500/yr. It may yet be a business model that can keep newspapers printed on dead trees.
Now The Onion is testing a paywall. Hmmm …
Rick McCharles 