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Category Archives: things getting better
how to get rid of pennies
campaign against warlord Joseph KONY
#Kony2012
This must be the best organized VIRAL VIDEO campaign I’ve ever seen. Regular folks rallying to help the kids of Africa.
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Joseph Kony (born 1961 in Odek, Uganda) is a Ugandan guerrilla group leader, head of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a group engaged in a violent campaign to establish theocratic government based on the Ten Commandments …
… (the LRA) has abducted and forced an estimated 66,000 children to fight for them, and has also forced the internal displacement of over 2,000,000 people since its rebellion began in 1986. As a result, in 2005 Kony was indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court at the Hague, but has succeeded in evading capture since. …
Campaign webpage
animated history of aviation
… a brief history … in 3D animation.
While there are many contributions … that could not be included, this video shows many of the substantial advancements that propelled aviation to what it has become today. …
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Rick Mercer – CND online privacy
It’s been a really, really bad week for Public Safety Minister Vic Toews.
Once Rick Mercer rants, you’re done in this country.
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Not all of that is true, by the way.
But I’m happy to see the normally stupefied and inert Canadian public pay attention to this issue.
I’ve recently used the internet in totalitarian police States like China and Italy. We don’t want that here.
The right wing ‘tough on crime’ agenda does not work. They need to focus on eliminating the causes of crime.
(via Geist)
FRUSTRATED logging in to websites?
My life is 17% less frustrating since I started using LastPass.
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IT WORKS. .. But I do sometimes have problems, especially with the FILL FORMS functionality.
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Know that it has competitors, as good or better.
Kinect-Powered 3D Amusement Park
3D is crude now. But the future is 3 dimensional, I’m certain. Likely transparent holographic mid-air displays, as we’ve seen in many movies.
Here’s another baby step in that direction.
When Minority Report was released nearly a decade ago, it gave a glimpse into a future of participatory media environments and responsive technological infrastructures. We haven’t quite caught up to the yesterday’s future, but you can now simulate much of Tom Cruise’s cybernetic gymnastics at the Live Park 4D Art Factory in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.
… the giant indoor theme-park, … opened at the end of January …
Kinect-Powered Amusement Park/Virtual Museum Opens in South Korea
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US airlines must advertise TRUE fares
Good news — under the Obama administration:
A series of new airfare rules put forth by the Department of Transportation (DOT) will go into effect Jan. 26 and offer travelers better “passenger protections.”
The most visible of the new rules is a law that requires airlines to include mandatory government taxes and fees in all advertised fares. Other rules pertaining to ticket cancellation policies and baggage fees went into effect on Jan. 24. …
Luggage fees are still not included. And code-share flights not necessarily disclosed. When you buy a flight on Alaska, for example, you might find yourself on Horizon.
What happens in the States often ends up happening worldwide, the aviation industry so international.
almost everything is getting better
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.
photographs focus AFTER you click
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.
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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.”
