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Mel Brooks on Manhattan during the depression and borscht

spoco2 (http://www.videosift.com/member/spoco2) — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:51:34 -0700

(23 votes - 7 comments - 430 views)
Mel Brooks on the brilliant Australian talk show 'Enough Rope with Andrew Denton'.

From Little things Big Things grow: Help make history!

spoco2 (http://www.videosift.com/member/spoco2) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:47:32 -0700

(11 votes - 0 comments - 231 views)
Short version: Help this reworking of Paul Kelly's classic 'From Little Things Big Things Grow' become number 1 in Australia and make it known that we care about reconciliation. (In regards to what is known as the Stolen Generation in Australia)

Go Here to buy the track for $1.69 (I have :) )

Long version from the youtube video:

"GetUp brings you The GetUp Mob's "From little things, big things grow" - some of the nation's best-known performers have come together to create a song that harnesses the momentum of February's apology to make sure 'sorry' is only the first step towards Indigenous equality.

Track Information:
Song featuring Paul Kelly, Kev Carmody, Urthboy, Missy Higgins, Mia Dyson, Radical Son, Jane Tyrell, Dan Sultan, Joel Wenitong and Ozi Batla. Film Clip featuring John Butler, Leah Purcell, Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Ernie Dingo, Anthony Mundine and Matty Bowen.

Purchasing this track will cost $1.69 but we encourage you to donate as much as you feel appropriate.

All profits will go to GetUp's Reconciliation Fund and the following charity organisations: * Link Up * Mums and Bubs Program in Townsville. * Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience"

Making of the Computer Graphics for Star Wars (1977)

spoco2 (http://www.videosift.com/member/spoco2) — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:06:39 -0700

(27 votes - 5 comments - 709 views)
You want old school computer graphics? You think you did it tough on a commodore 64 or ZX Spectrum? Check out how long and painstaking the process was to create the trench run graphics as seen in Star Wars.

From the youtube video:
"(1977) The computer graphics for the first Star Wars film were created by Larry Cuba in the 1970s at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) (at the time known as the Circle Graphics Habitat) at the University of Illinois at Chicago." Site link to current lab : http://www.evl.uic.edu

You Suck At Photoshop: D0nn1e's Special Place

spoco2 (http://www.videosift.com/member/spoco2) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:14:17 -0700

(17 votes - 7 comments - 513 views)
Donnie may be gone, but he's not forgotten... sn4tchbuckl3r won't forget him.

Here is the page he's made for Donnie. (Yes, it's an official followup)

And here is the tribute page with user contributions.

Former Scientologist Jason Beghe on what's wrong with it

spoco2 (http://www.videosift.com/member/spoco2) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:26:20 -0700

(25 votes - 14 comments - 609 views)
Actor, and former Scientologist, Jason Beghe (you'll know him, he's an 'oh, that guy') speaks out on the lies of Scientology.

NSFW due to language.

Translation of terms:
Clear: A condition in which a person is free of the unwanted influence of engrams, unwanted emotions or painful traumas which are not readily available to the awareness of present time.

Engrams: A faithful recording of a moment of pain and unconsciousness. It is stored in the stimulus-response mechanism of (the reactive mind). It is not a memory.

OT: Operating Thetan. The state of Operating Thetan is a spiritual state above Clear. L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, defined it as "knowing and willing cause over life, thought, matter, energy, space and time (MEST)." There are a number of levels of OT, up to 8 I believe.

Theta Trap: Any place which attracts people.

Hugh Laurie: Folk Song with no Answers

spoco2 (http://www.videosift.com/member/spoco2) — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:59:45 -0700

(120 votes - 17 comments - 3352 views)
The many talented Mr Laurie on Parkinson.

What Hillary Clinton is REALLY doing on the phone at 3am

spoco2 (http://www.videosift.com/member/spoco2) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:42:41 -0700

(15 votes - 6 comments - 397 views)
Come on, you all knew it....

3D animated graphics using just Microsoft Excel!

spoco2 (http://www.videosift.com/member/spoco2) — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:44:05 -0800

(28 votes - 3 comments - 1109 views)
From here. Yes, it actually creates an animated, rotating graphic (that you can configure through a simple worksheet) within the normal cells of an Excel worksheet (well, two actually).

And if you want to see that this is real... download the excel files, open them (ensure you enable macros) and then use ALT-F8 to see it running on your own version of excel! :)

The REAL Awakenings-Oliver Sacks, L-Dopa, Sleeping Sickness

spoco2 (http://www.videosift.com/member/spoco2) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:39:10 -0800

(16 votes - 0 comments - 1005 views)
In 1966, Oliver Sacks began working as a consulting neurologist at Beth Abraham Hospital (now Beth Abraham Health Services), a chronic care facility in the Bronx. It was here that he first encountered a group of patients, many of whom had spent decades unable to initiate movement due to the devastating effects of the 1920s sleeping sickness, encephalitis lethargica.[source]

In 1969 Sacks tried using a then new Parkinson's drug, L-dopa, with amazing results, returning these people to the 'land of the living' after they'd been in a horrendous frozen state for decades. Unfortunately the vast majority of these returned to their frozen state after the negative effects of L-Dopa (ticks,spasms etc.) began to outweigh the benefits.

The Academy Award nominated film with Robin Williams and Robert De Niro is what brought this amazing true tale to many people's knowledge.

There was a documentary made in the 70s about it, but it hasn't been publicly shown outside of small showings to predominantly medical people. Finally someone has actually posted some footage that shows the REAL patients that you will know if you love the movie as much as I, Leonard, Rose etc. Amazing to see how close they stayed to reality in that movie when it came to portraying these people.

The Business of Being Born

spoco2 (http://www.videosift.com/member/spoco2) — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:04:33 -0800

(21 votes - 8 comments - 902 views)
I SO need this DVD (it comes out in May). From the website "Birth: it’s a miracle. A rite of passage. A natural part of life. But more than anything, birth is a business."

In the US (where this movie is made), but also increasingly in other countries like here in Australia, women are being encouraged to not see a natural birth as being their best option.

It makes me SO angry to see women deprived of this empowering moment in their lives... and is the reason my wife is currently studying to be a midwife.