A depressed youth traverses his suburbian town as he plans to run away to New York City with an unstable drug dealer.
Watch it tonight, jul 28, at 11pm on channel 5
Photosynth demo
Blaise Aguera y Arcas leads a dazzling demo of Photosynth, software that could transform the way we look at digital images. Using still photos culled from the Web, Photosynth builds breathtaking dreamscapes and lets us navigate them.
Photosynth example – Piazza San Marco
Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food
Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food.
Jamie Oliver has been drawn to the kitchen since he was a child working in his father’s pub-restaurant. He showed not only a precocious culinary talent but also a passion for creating (and talking about) fresh, honest, delicious food. In the past decade, the shaggy-haired “Naked Chef” of late-’90s BBC2 has built a worldwide media conglomerate of TV shows, books, cookware and magazines, all based on a formula of simple, unpretentious food that invites everyone to get busy in the kitchen. And as much as his cooking is generous, so is his business model — his Fifteen Foundation, for instance, trains young chefs from challenged backgrounds to run four of his restaurants.
Now, Oliver is using his fame and charm to bring attention to the changes that Brits and Americans need to make in their lifestyles and diet. Campaigns such as Jamie’s School Dinner, Ministry of Food and Food Revolution USA combine Oliver’s culinary tools, cookbooks and television, with serious activism and community organizing — to create change on both the individual and governmental level.
Ellen Gustafson: Obesity + Hunger = 1 global food issue
Co-creator of the philanthropic FEED bags, Ellen Gustafson says hunger and obesity are two sides of the same coin. At TEDxEast, she launches The 30 Project — a way to change how we farm and eat in the next 30 years, and solve the global food inequalities behind both epidemics.
Prop 8 – The Musical” starring Jack Black, John C. Reilly, and many more…
A star-studded cast turns out for Marc Shaiman’s “Prop 8 – The Musical.”
from FOD Team, Jack Black, Craig Robinson, John C Reilly, Rashida Jones, Sarah Chalke, Shauna O’Toole, Dustin Bowser, and Brad
A second opinion on learning disorders
Developmental disorders in children are typically diagnosed by observing behavior, but Aditi Shankardass knew that we should be looking directly at their brains. She explains how a remarkable EEG device has revealed mistaken diagnoses and transformed children’s lives.
From Ships to Bits
Common carriage is an ancient idea being applied to a modern problem—internet access
IT SOUNDS like the most modern of regulatory problems. All internet services involve shipping bits of digital information from one computer to another. These bits are gathered into packets and sent as electrical signals down phone wires or cable networks (which can be pretty fast) or as pulses of light along optical fibres (which is faster still). Stringing wires or laying cables is expensive, so a company that owns a connection that runs to the side of your house—the so-called “last mile”—has tremendous power over potential rivals.
On May 6th America’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced a plan to classify the last mile of internet access as a “telecommunications service”; it is currently classified as an “information service”. Since the 1930s providers of telecommunications services in America have been obliged to agree on rates with the FCC. They cannot discriminate among customers or traffic, and they have to contribute to a fund that subsidises rural connections. The new plan promises to refrain from any price regulation; the FCC wants to ensure primarily that packets pass from point to point without preferential treatment.
Most large telecoms operators are unhappy with the plan. It will discourage innovation and investment in expensive new networks, they say, and a telephone-era solution is unfit for the internet. They are wrong on at least one count. The FCC’s decision rests on the idea of “common carriage”, a principle that is, in fact, far older than the telephone. …
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Save the Internet – Frequently Asked Questions
When we log onto the Internet, we take a lot for granted. We assume we’ll be able to access any Web site we want, whenever we want, at the fastest speed, whether it’s a corporate or mom-and-pop site. We assume that we can use any service we like — watching online video, listening to podcasts, sending instant messages — anytime we choose. What makes all these assumptions possible is Net Neutrality.
Net Neutrality is the guiding principle that preserves the free and open Internet.
Net Neutrality means that Internet service providers may not discriminate between different kinds of content and applications online. It guarantees a level playing field for all Web sites and Internet technologies.
Net Neutrality is the reason the Internet has driven economic innovation, democratic participation and free speech online. It protects the consumer’s right to use any equipment, content, application or service without interference from the network provider. With Net Neutrality, the network’s only job is to move data — not to choose which data to privilege with higher quality service.
[via savetheinternet.com/frequently-asked-questions
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USA vs England: The World Cup Game 60 Years in the Making
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/06/01/The_Glorious_World_Cup_A_Fanatics_Guide
Reflecting on the USA’s famous victory over England in the 1950 World Cup, soccer columnist Alan Black looks ahead to the two teams’ highly anticipated June 12, 2010 rematch. “If [the Americans] play with their heart like Joe Gaetjens,” says Black, “then they’re going to beat England baby!”
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The global frenzy has already begun for the historic World Cup starting on June 11 in Johannesburg, South Africa. With the frenzy comes the competition, the trash-talk, the strategy, the high hopes, the dedication, and the downright madness that accompanies the once-every-four-years tournament. The Glorious World Cup brings everything World cup, with a solid dose of humor.
For one month, billions of people are glued to TV sets, radios, and sports pages, waiting with bated breath for their teams’ advancement. There are tears of elation and sorrow. Pints are drunk. Knuckles are bruised. Noses are broken. And it’s all in the name of a universal love of the biggest game on the planet.
Alan Black and co-writer David Henry Sterry take the piss from past to present: filled with tall tales, stats, photos, hilarity, famous-player profiles, hooligans, maniacs, commentary from famous fans, a look back at the greatest World Cup Finals, and so much more. It’s the ultimate fan guide for what’s certain to be the biggest, ballsiest, most epic World Cup yet. Begin the countdown to June 11 with Black, contributor Po Bronson, and us this evening! – The Booksmith
Alan Black, as a kid, wrote his first book on the sidewalk with chalk. It was a bestseller with feet. He writes for various platforms, some low and some high. He is a columnist at www.goal.com, the web’s leading soccer site. He’s a featured blogger at www.sfgate.com, and a regular contributor to the Huffington Post. His most recent book is Kick the Balls: A Bruising Season in the Life of a Suburban Soccer Coach.