A really cool fake documentary from the future, where the economic balance of the world has shifted, and North America finds itself on the other end of consumer capitalism. Several segments are online. The trailer is at the bottom. Digital Janitor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_ZeDtorKcA Baby Makers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVH7TQ5gqj0 Digital Spam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J21WdMbTYx4
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"The idea that a young child could have psychopathic tendencies remains controversial among psychologists. Laurence Steinberg, a psychologist at Temple University, has argued that psychopathy, like other personality disorders, is almost impossible to diagnose accurately in children, or even in teenagers — both because their brains are still developing and because normal behavior at these ages can be misinterpreted as psychopathic. Others fear that even if such a diagnosis can be made accurately, the social cost of branding a young child a psychopath is simply too high. (The disorder has historically been considered untreatable.) John Edens, a clinical psychologist at Texas A&M University, has cautioned against spending money on research to identify children at risk of psychopathy. “This isn’t like autism, where the child and parents will find support,” Edens observes. “Even if accurate, it’s a ruinous diagnosis. No one is sympathetic to the mother of a psychopath.” http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/magazine/can-you-call-a-9-year-old-a-psychopath.html?pagewanted=1&_r=3&ref=general&src=me& He's been busy since the end of Pink Floyd. "Mechanical things are just... brilliant," says Nick, gently tapping on a Ferrari that falls closely to hand. "You can fettle and tune and take them apart - but in my case I usually have to get someone else to put them back together again. Then the little adjustments you make turn into tangible things like faster laps and higher top speeds. I'm very grateful to have a passion for cars." http://www.topgear.com/uk/photos/nick-mason-car-collection-2012-05-04 Google Books has a wealth of old magazines uploaded that you can read for free, whenever. It's amazing, curious and sometimes disturbing to see into the past this way. Here's the May 12, 1947 issue. http://books.google.ca/books?id=ZEgEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA42&pg=PA7#v=onepage&q&f=false Slow, weird, mechanical cars are way more interesting than supermega hypermachines. "Tired of speeding tickets? Try trading your new Porsche Turbo for a 53-year-old Volvo 544. Your 0-100 km/h time will go from four seconds to about 30 (give or take), and top speed will be slashed from 300 to about 145 (depending on wind conditions and other factors)." http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-drive/car-life/cheney/it-takes-skill-to-squeeze-speed-from-a-slow-poke/article2406407/singlepage/#articlecontent There's a new Ninja Turtles movie coming out. It's not this, but it should be this. "The Sagan Series is an educational project working in the hopes of promoting scientific literacy in the general population. Created by @ReidGower http://twitter.com/reidgower"
Get ready. This was nominated for an Oscar in 1971 and is totally thrilling. It never becomes boring, bringing anyone and everyone into the amazing, exhilarating, funny and sometimes poignant world of motorcycles and the people who ride them. "On Any Sunday" (1971) "A lot more art goes into a film like "On Any Sunday" that might be apparent. It's tremendously hard to get the footage, first of all; a surfer on a wave operates within a relatively small area, but a two-mile motorcycle race requires thousands of feet of footage from several cameras to be adequately covered. Brown has somehow accomplished this (with some financial backing from Steve McQueen, who turns up in the movie a couple of times). What's better, having done it he doesn't tell us about it." --Roger Ebert "The Internet is often described as a festering pit of electronic hate, but in the same way your gut is a festering pit of bacteria -- the vast majority are harmless, and you're actually better off for having them around. Ninety percent of people might be assholes, but we're all assholes about different things. So when one group declares themselves the voice of the majority, they get stomped like a goomba in Mario's biker bar." http://www.cracked.com/blog/how-archies-gay-friend-proved-internet-can-do-good/ |
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