Archive for the 'Time' Category
USA: Let’s play Wall Street Bailout
A very interesting speech by Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) during the congress debate on the so-called Bailout (transcript below)…
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Movies: Berlin Calling
Hannes Stoehr’s latest movie “Berlin Calling” tells the story of electronic music composer Martin aka DJ Icarus, who tours the clubs together with his manager and girlfriend Mathilde. Just before the release of his biggest album, one of Martin’s gigs ends in a mental hospital, and from there on his whole life is upside-down.
Martin is played by famous German DJ Paul Kalkbrenner and Berlin’s techno-scene provides the set for the movie…
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USA: Bailout Driven by Fear Not Fact
Ohio congressman Dennis Kucinich suggested the $700 billion bailout package was sending America towards ‘casino socialism, where the only real product is debt.
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The Incredible Lightness of Being: Today Wall Street
I guess there is not much that need to be said on what happened today at Wall Street. We dropped in charts of the leading stock indexes / average (DJIA & NASDAQ) for documentation.
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USA: Scaring people all the way around
Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart reminds us of the similarity between G.W.Bush’s big bailout speech and his Iraq invasion speech five years ago.
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Press: Naomi Wolf on S.Palin
Naomi Wolf, who also writes for Huffington Post, has published an interesting opinion piece at AlterNet (link below). If you like her point of view or not, this is definitely worth reading…
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Bail-Out: Fallen Masters
This is definitely our last post for a while on this topic but the video is done so well that we thought you should watch it.
Basically - in essence - what some of those responsible for the crisis might believe that will happen to them in the future. Nothing, they will just carry on enjoying your money.
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Humor: The true story behind the U.S. 700 Billion Bail-out plan
Much has been said this week about the so-called USD 700 Billion bail-out plan for banks by the current U.S. administration and finally the right question was asked in congress yesterday - How did you arrive at that USD 700 billion number…
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DIY: Create a HDR time-lapsed movie
So far San Francisco based photographer Chad Richard is one of the very few who create time-lapsed HDR movies. He uses the new Nikon D700 that allows to take up to 8fps full frame images and post-processes / blend the frames into HDR images with Photomatix. Out of the about 1000 resulting HDR images he creates a 15-20 second long time-lapsed video with QuickTime…
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Video: I’m a 21st century learner
This project was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills.
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