Your flight has an impact. Plane Stupid’s new cinema ad, written and commissioned by creative agency Mother and made by production company Rattling Stick. Director Daniel Kleinman.
You will probably find it either daring or tasteless depending on which side of the green line you stand. The fact is that flying imposes negative externalities on the environment. If this video’s primary objective is to stimulate discussion on the problem it is a hit. However, the group that came up with it seems to be looking at the wrong solution - they want to limit commercial flying in order to reduce its impact on nature. This could hardly work. A much better way to tackle the issue is to invest heavily in research and implementation of better flight technologies that would increase efficiency and reduce emissions.
Petya kindly invited me to join a chain of posts. I put down my list in google docs about a month ago and then forgot about it. So, here they are.
1. Coffee. Does not matter if the source is an espresso machine, french press or filter coffee maker. I crave the substance and I drink at least a few cups every day.
2. The return of Fake Steve Jobs. The funniest blogger on my side of the internet is back with the familiar tagline “Dude, I invented the friggin iPhone. Have you heard of it?”
3. House MD. I count the days (42) to the premiere of season 6. I used to wake up at 4 in the morning to grab the latest episode from the torrent sites.
4. Stumbling upon a film I should have seen a long time ago but did not. The freshest one in this category is Martin Scorsese’s American Boy. The movie was actually never released to the broad public but this did not stop movie buffs to seek, watch and directly lift ideas from it. Certainly everyone reading this can recall Uma Turman snorting heroin and OD-ing in Pulp Fiction. The scene below has almost a one to one correspondence with a story told in American Boy.
I have no problem with the good directors borrow, great directors steal approach.
On another note, if you, for some freakish reason, have not seen Pulp Fiction - Get out of here right now! I will quote Marsellus Wallace about the situation your lack of curiosity for quality cinema entertainment has created.
Yeah, we cool. Two things. Don’t tell nobody about this. This shit is between me, you, and Mr. Soon-To-Be-Living-The-Rest-of-His-Short-Ass-Life-In-Agonizing-Pain Rapist here. It ain’t nobody else’s business. Two: you leave town tonight, right now. And when you’re gone, you stay gone, or you be gone. You lost all your L.A. privileges. Deal?
5. Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself. I find it extremely useful in making sense of web content. Check it out.
6. Not playing WoW any more. It is nothing less than triumph of my will power. Let’s see how long it will last…
Arstechnica has a nice piece on the world of high-speed trading.
If you look under the hood of the markets in 2009, you’ll find that the trading floor has been replaced by electronic networks; the frantic, hand-signaling traders have been replaced by computer systems; and all of moves in the trader’s dance—a thousand little tricks and techniques (some legal, some questionable, and some outright illegal) for taking regular advantage of speed, location, and information to generate profits—are executed hundreds of times per second, billions of times per day. And the whole enterprise is mainly powered by the same hardware from Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA, that Ars readers use for gaming.
I pity the fools with etrade accounts who wake up at odd hours to check on the markets. Few of them will be so late to the trades that they might actually get them right. Still, flash your skeptical smile at the next active amateur trader boasting big returns at a cocktail party.
The computational knowledge enigne built by the creators of Mathematica is now accessible for everyone. Most reviews suggest that it will be a useful tool. My first impressions support that. Stay tuned for a more thorough look in the coming days.
Daniel Lyons stops blogging on The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs. His character was a parody of Apple’s illustrious CEO. Over the last few years, the blog turned into a mandatory stop for anyone interested in Apple or the tech industry.
Fake Steve’s posts were some of the most amusing in the blogosphere. And as many satirical pieces go, they often reflected reality better than the oldtard media. I will miss him.
Oh, there is one last thing. Steve, in case you are reading this, I honor the place where your words and my eyes met.
Namaste.
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