Hat tip to NPR.
Two guys talk on their phones in a preview of Key & Peele, premiering on Comedy Central on January 3
Another ukulele tribute to my favorite band of all time and space :)
Tried a two camera setup just for fun.
Canon T3i with Tamron SP AF-17-50mm F/2.8 XR Di II VC and RODE VideoMic Pro. +0dB on the VideoMic Pro, 1 tick above zero on the camera. Clearer audio taken on an M-audio Nova, running through an M-audio Fast Track Pro, recorded into Logic Pro.
Manual focus, shutter speed 60, F/2.8, ISO whatever it wanted to be. Audio post processing done in Final Cut Pro X.
I tried sharing directly to YouTube right from FCPX, but my first try ended up nothing but a title, black screen and audio. Finally exported manually out of Compressor, then uploaded to YouTube.
As requested, a detailed walkthrough for "Dream On" on ukulele.
Quoted for truth.
In honor of this year’s “eat healthier” resolution, my teenage son and I drove over to a local bakery in the first week of January. On the shop’s window, someone had painted the word…
SOPA/PIPA and government truth squads. Ain't that a corker.
Guest Post by Alec Rawls As Congress considers vastly expanding the power of copyright holders to shut down fair use of their intellectual property, this is a good time to remember the other act……
#copyrightfail
Believe it or not, to legally watch that famous Martin Luther King “I Have a Dream” speech — arguably one of the most hallowed moments in American history — costs $10 thanks to the twisted state of …
Inconvenient truths.
Start with a 1940 photo Jump to a 2004 photo Don’t show the 1950 photo, which shows that most of the melt occurred during the
Happy 119th Anniversary of the 1893 Hawaiian Revolution!
Imua!
LETTERS OF FORMAL DIPLOMATIC RECOGNITION (DE JURE) OF THE REPUBLIC OF HAWAII, RECEIVED FROM AUGUST 1894 THROUGH JANUARY 1895. These letters were signed by Emperors, Kings, Queens, Princes, and Preside…
For your consideration…
Pay no attention to the data manipulation behind the curtain…
GISS has invented some new corrections to heat the Arctic. Until a few weeks ago, Reykjavik, Iceland looked like the graph below, with the 1930s and 1940s
An interesting thing about taxes – ostensibly, they're used to destroy industries, but perversely they create an incentive for government to stimulate the very thing they're trying to destroy. For example, cigarette taxes are supposed to make smoking less attractive, ideally destroying the entire cigarette industry. But a government who wants revenue (as all governments do), will find that in order to maximize its revenue, it has to encourage smoking.
Applying this observation to progressive taxes in general leads to the following conclusion – taxing the rich, and sparing the poor leads to a government that perversely wants to encourage a wealth gap. When the government depends on revenue from the ultra-rich, they will naturally focus on making the ultra-rich even richer, particularly when that's easier than taking a poor person and making them ultra-rich.
By the same rationale, a government which has a broad based flat tax will be more inclined to improve the wealth of everyone, rather than simply the ultra-rich.
You cannot have a democracy and a race-based government.
Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled that Palestinians will not be able to acquire Israeli citizenship through marriage.
When observations don't match predictions.
A few days ago I had a very pleasant meeting with Andrew Bolt. He was visiting Israel and we met for an hour in my office. During the discussion, I mentioned that the writers of the recent IPCC report…
Another thing for natural climate change deniers to deny :)
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No, you are not a special little snowflake.
Are you a verbal learner or a visual learner? Chances are, you’ve pegged yourself or your children as either one or the other and rely on study techniques that suit your individual learning needs. How…