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WW II vets welcomed by airport passengers

davidw — Sun, 12 May 2013 15:36:42 +0000

I was in National Airport in DC yesterday and came upon this scene. The vets are being welcomed by passengers waiting for planes and by people who came especially for the event. It’s a trip sponsored by the Honor Flight Network, a non-profit that brings vets to DC for free to see the memorials and sights. It was a genuinely heartwarming scene. For all the books I’ve read about WW II and the movies I’ve seen, I still can’t imagine what it took to serve.

BTW, Honor Flight’s page — HonorFlight.org — warns us not to be confused by HonorFlight.com. That’ll teach you: If you’re a .org, grab the .com for another $15/year.

The medium is the message is the transmitter is the receiver

davidw — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:16:43 +0000

Al Jazeera asked me to contribute a one-minute video for an episode of Listening Post about how McLuhan looks in the Age of the Internet. They ultimately rejected it. I can see why; it’s pretty geeky. Also, it’s not very interesting.

So, what the heck, here it is:

Noise from Jonathan Spencer

davidw — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:21:10 +0000

Jonathan Spencer [twitter:JonnyVeeArgh] creates informative visualizations for the BBC (“The Beeb”), but as he takes the train (or as the Brits say, a “lorry”) into work (“lift”), he works on his own videos (“bangers”). Here’s his latest (“the penny dropped”), which is about his continuing theme (“ringo”), noise (“warm beer”):

NOISE V014L H264 from Jonathan Spencer on Vimeo.

Click to go to the Vimeo page that explains the order producing the chaos.

The Lick

davidw — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:50:59 +0000

(Hat tip to Chris Lydon.)

James Boyle on three frames for copyright

davidw — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:00:06 +0000

The crowd as flipbook

davidw — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 14:15:59 +0000

500 people in Israel, 1,500 photographs:

In the race of questions this video provokes, the why beats the how. So much work for 1:50 minutes of cool. But, so cool!

Comedy or not?

davidw — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 19:13:28 +0000

At the risk of becoming just slightly obsessed with the awfulness of Airport 1975, here’s the honest-to-grid trailer for it, indistinguishable from parodies of it:

Simply for purposes of comparison (SPOILER: better cast, better acting, even funnier):

Tog + 17 years = Corning

davidw — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:48:44 +0000

Corning has put out a video vision of a future in which we spend most of our day running our fingers over glass interfaces. Very nice. Very slick. Very reminiscent of Bruce Tognazzini’s 1994 Starfire video envisioning of how we might live with documents.

Seasons greetings from space and the future

davidw — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 15:47:35 +0000

[Zombie pointer via BoingBoing]

Animal vids

davidw — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:23:30 +0000

Great set of user-chosen top animal videos of the year over at the Wired blog.

It makes you realize how inadequate our categories are for understanding animals. For example, is the gibbon “playing”? There’s no way we can answer that question, because if the gibbon could speak, we couldn’t understand it.

But the videos are durn cute!

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