Documentary Confirms Hogzilla's Existence (AP)

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Intel confirms existence of X86-64
Yamhill chip

Intel confirms existence of X86-64
Yamhill chip 12/24/2003 07:09 PM

Existence Engine

Existence Engine 08/23/2004 12:10 PM
Project start

We may owe our speech and our existence
to dogs

We may owe our speech and our existence
to dogs 01/16/2004 11:31 AM

In my pursuit to understand Bo better, I'm reading a book that Barak gave me called How to Speak Dog. It's really a great book about how to to communicate with your dog. Stanley Coren makes an interesting assertion about our co-evolution with dogs.

Stanley Coren

It is well established that the primitive humans who survived to become our forefathers formed an early relationship with dogs. Compare our success to that of the Neanderthals, who never got along with dogs, and who ultimately died out. Some evolutionary theorists have suggested that the survival of our ancestors had to do with the fact that our cooperative partnership with dogs made us more efficient hunters than Neanderthals². With the dog's more acute sensory systems, finding game was easier.
[...]
Here is where the serious speculation begins. These theorists suggest that since these early humans now had dogs to do the tracking, they no longer needed the facial structures that would allow them to detect faint scents. This, then, allowed our early ancestors to evolve more flexible facial features, which were capable of shaping more complex sounds. In other words, our prehistoric association with dogs, who would do the smelling for us, gave us the ability to create speech.
[...]
2. J.M. Allman, Evolving Brains. New York: Freeman, 1999.

Thanks Bo!

A robot must protect its own existence

A robot must protect its own existence 01/25/2004 03:04 PM
Jeff's Robots - five decades of toy and model robots

Microsoft: The existence of alternatives
changes everything

Microsoft: The existence of alternatives
changes everything 04/15/2004 11:48 AM
The announcement that US regulators want to prod Microsoft to share more information with its partners underlines how things have changed for the software giant. I remember the siege mentality in Silicon Valley during the first Microsoft trial. The company's browser bundle and its battle with Netscape seemed to make competing against such a dominant, cash-rich rival almost impossible. Who was going to be next? It became a cliché to talk of Silicon Valley venture capitalists asking "the Microsoft question" - how will your new technology fit into the Microsoft ecosystem, given the impossibility of fighting City Hall and taking on Redmond directly?

iPod Adds New Dimension To Existence

iPod Adds New Dimension To Existence 09/21/2004 10:50 AM
My life was instantly changed. By Dana Moran, Daily Orange (via MyAppleMenu)

"inject some interest back into his sad
existence"

"inject some interest back into his sad
existence" 06/11/2004 03:17 AM

Checking for the Existence of a User
Account

Checking for the Existence of a User
Account 06/15/2004 06:22 PM

"Existence of Israel contrary to Iranian
interests"

"Existence of Israel contrary to Iranian
interests" 11/11/2003 09:25 AM

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""Existence of Israel contrary to
Iranian interests""

""Existence of Israel contrary to
Iranian interests"" 11/11/2003 03:17 PM

Five Ways To Make Your Maicntosh
Existence A Happier One

Five Ways To Make Your Maicntosh
Existence A Happier One 02/10/2004 02:43 AM
All of us can do a few things to make our Mac experience even more sweet. (Bill Palmer via MyAppleMenu)

CNN.com - Powell on WMD existence: 'This
game is still unfolding' - Jan. 8, 2004

CNN.com - Powell on WMD existence: 'This
game is still unfolding' - Jan. 8, 2004 01/09/2004 10:10 PM
"We never really said they had Weapons of Mass Destruction, really. Can you define said?" .. Powell defends U.S. against WMD report .. CNN has a story indicating .. Iraq didn't have WMD .. Read article .. Defeatist .. on

cnn.com/2004/US/01/08/sprj.nirq.wmd.report/index.html
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Chandra Observations Confirm Existence
of Dark Energy

Chandra Observations Confirm Existence
of Dark Energy 05/19/2004 01:27 AM

their article today detainling how the
Swift Boat Liars came into existence

their article today detainling how the
Swift Boat Liars came into existence 08/20/2004 10:56 AM
How the Swift Boat anti-Kerry ads began, 30 years ago .. New York Times drives the stake in

nytimes.com/2004/08/20/politics/campaign/20swift.html?hp
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The Man With the Smallest Penis in
Existence and the Electron Microscope
Technician Who Loved Him

The Man With the Smallest Penis in
Existence and the Electron Microscope
Technician Who Loved Him 08/27/2004 01:51 PM
The Man With the Smallest Penis in Existence and the Electron Microscope Technician Who Loved Him (flash cartoon)

That other documentary

That other documentary 06/04/2004 12:12 PM
The Corporation (U.S. premiere tonight) is "a surprisingly rational and coherent attack on capitalism's most important institution," or so says The Economist. An important but flawed documentary? Or something bigger ? (imdb page | rotten tomato review collection) (wee more inside)

Logging the documentary

Logging the documentary 02/12/2004 12:51 PM

I'm happy to report that loggnig the documentary happens pretty much at live speed. I just run the tape and log as it goes. So 20 hours of tape means 20 hours of logging. Not too bad.

I created a table in Word. The first column has the timecode (0:25:41), the second the scene ("plane"), the third details ("old man looking"), the fourth comments ("nice image - bad sound"). I only use the comments for 1 out of every 5 rows, more or less. A 1 hour tape turns into about 2 pages in Word. I just run the video on the TV and type in my Word doc as it goes.

The Ramones documentary you may never
get to see

The Ramones documentary you may never
get to see 04/26/2004 11:51 AM
The Ramones documentary, End of the Century, has won critical acclaim at every festival and screening it played at. But the two nearly bankrupt filmmakers who made it are having a hard time getting sign off from the surviving Ramones.

Even when the movie was shown at Slamdance, the filmmakers had not obtained permission to use archival concert footage and music from the Ramones and other bands. They had also never gotten the Ramones to sign releases for their interviews, which took more than three years to conduct. ... The film's release has been further complicated by the filmmakers' financial situation. By the time the film was presented at Slamdance, Mr. Gramaglia and his brother, John, a producer, had amassed a debt of about $65,000 in production expenses. They owed Chinagraph, an editing house, another $150,000 and they estimated they would have to spend several hundred thousand dollars more to secure the rights to music and concert footage.

Link (Thanks, Scott!)

BBC documentary on atheism

BBC documentary on atheism 12/19/2004 03:47 PM
BBC - BBC Four Documentaries - Jonathan Miller's Brief History of Disbelief "In this first ever television history of disbelief,...

Recursive documentary

Recursive documentary 05/23/2004 06:25 AM
"The Making Of: The Documentary With This Tagline" is a recursive documentary -- a documentary about the making of itself. The trailer is a scream. Link (Thanks, Nick!)

Editing the documentary

Editing the documentary 02/10/2004 08:08 PM

I've returned from filming in Colombia and now I have 22 tapes (about 16 hours) of video to edit.

The first step is to get an idea of what you have. I fast forwarded through most of the tapes, and used my digital camera to make screenshots of the TV. I then printed out the screenshots (using Windows XP's printing wizard makes it very easy) per scene. I laid out all the scenes to have an easy way of discussing them and getting an overview. Think of it as a high-level sitemap.

Next I will have to watch all 16 hours and make a detailed log: at this timestamp, a man with donkey passes. This timestamp, the interviewee talks about X. I expect this to take 2 weeks, I'll report back. And yes, it's like a content inventory. Yey.

a distancing documentary

a distancing documentary 06/26/2004 05:42 PM
i am suffering from polarization fatigue

Why the BBS Documentary is Creative
Commons

Why the BBS Documentary is Creative
Commons 06/05/2005 11:29 PM
Great defense of CC

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Slashback: Documentary, Directory, FUD

Slashback: Documentary, Directory, FUD 04/22/2004 08:02 PM

Bob Moog documentary looks great

Bob Moog documentary looks great 04/29/2004 07:13 PM
The video clips from the new Bob Moog (inventor of the Moog synthesizer) documentary (titled "moog") are very exciting. Can't wait to see it. He says inventing things is a combination of "discovering and witnessing." (As an aside, isn't "Moog" a great name. It has that mod 60s sound that's perfect for a synthesizer. I don't think it would have been as popular had his last name been anything else.) Link

Moore Documentary Gets U.S. Distributor
(AP)

Moore Documentary Gets U.S. Distributor
(AP) 06/01/2004 08:08 PM
AP - Michael Moore's award-winning documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" has picked up a U.S. distributor and will hit theaters June 25.

"How To Make A Guerrilla Documentary"

"How To Make A Guerrilla Documentary" 07/12/2004 04:00 AM

Moore documentary gets U.S. distributor

Moore documentary gets U.S. distributor 06/02/2004 07:19 AM

What Should a Documentary Filmmaker Ask
About Offshoring?

What Should a Documentary Filmmaker Ask
About Offshoring? 04/12/2004 11:21 AM

rock and roll documentary!

rock and roll documentary! 06/28/2004 11:22 PM
support kathryn's wrens documentary. it'll be better than any major label video would be

Disagree with Moore? Do Your Own
Documentary

Disagree with Moore? Do Your Own
Documentary 06/19/2004 12:14 PM

Roger Ebert: '9/11': Just the facts?. The wise French director Godard once said, "The way to criticize a film is to make another film." That there is not a pro-Bush documentary available right now I am powerless to explain. Surely, however, the Republican National Convention will open with such a documentary, which will position Bush comfortably between Ronald Reagan and God. The Democratic convention will have a wondrous film about John Kerry. Anyone who thinks one of these documentaries is "presenting facts objectively without editorializing" should look at the other one.

Roger Wood documentary footage

Roger Wood documentary footage 09/08/2004 08:06 PM
Cory Doctorow: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Zed show has done a segment on my pal Roger Wood, the mad assemblage clockmaker.

Roger Wood creates with time in mind. Yet even though the clock can be a consistent element of his work, it's often secondary to its creation. Whether it's a curious timepiece or a unique assemblage, Wood thrives on working with an immeasurable array of findings from the tarnished and forgotten to the odd or intriquing. He is a devoted collector of usual and unusual objects with one thing in common, a history.

The source of his inspiration lies in the hundreds of curiously labelled drawers and boxes brimming with artifacts of all description that line the shelves of his Toronto studio. Wood orchestrates an arrangement from his myriad of treasures until the precise moment that it feels right. Then he quickly glues them all down so they can't escape.

Playful, wondrous timepieces emerge that take flight on cherubic wings, float and sway on fine wires, or appear frozen mid-explosion with flying springs and cogs that bounce at the touch.

Link

Documentary pulled over race fear

Documentary pulled over race fear 05/20/2004 11:41 AM
Channel 4 pulls a documentary about Bradford social workers after police warn it could increase racial tension.

Video: Documentary on the Firefly Press

Video: Documentary on the Firefly Press 08/07/2004 02:09 PM
Bleisatz - giftig, aber schön .. This Quicktime micro-documentary

elsa.photo.net/video/firefly-small.mov
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5+ hour documentary series CC'd

5+ hour documentary series CC'd 06/05/2005 11:40 PM

Jason Scott has created a five plus hour documentary series on Bulletin Board Systems. Prior to the commercial Internet local BBSes were "the net" for anyone without an Internet connection, typically only provided by major universities and research institutions. In short, BBSes are where many long time net denizens cut their electronic media teeth (including me in the mid to late 1980s) and BBS culture was an important input into today's commercial Internet culture (BBS technology however has almost entirely been superseded).

I heard awhile ago that this documentary was in production and I've been eagerly awaiting its release. I'm now thrilled to learn that 1) it has been released, 2) under a Creative Commons license, 3) under a liberal Creative Commons license (Attribution-Shar eAlike 2.0), and 4) the creator has posted a great essay on how to make a great product and why he chose to CC license his great product.

Read Jasons's essay and check out the DVD set. Proceed to enjoy, rip, share, remix and share again (and alike).

'Fahrenheit 9/11' Sets Documentary
Record (AP)

'Fahrenheit 9/11' Sets Documentary
Record (AP) 06/27/2004 02:48 PM
AP - Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" took in a whopping $21.8 million in its first three days, becoming the first documentary ever to debut as Hollywood's top weekend film.

Miramax chiefs to buy Moore documentary

Miramax chiefs to buy Moore documentary 05/13/2004 11:11 AM

Weinstein brothers buy Moore documentary

Weinstein brothers buy Moore documentary 05/28/2004 06:32 PM

The September 11, 2001, Documentary
Project

The September 11, 2001, Documentary
Project 02/05/2005 09:29 PM
The September 11, 2001, Documentary Project
http://mem ory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/911_archive/

The September 11, 2001, Documentary Project captures the heartfelt reactions, eyewitness accounts, and diverse opinions of Americans and others in the months that followed the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93. Patriotism and unity mixed with sadness, anger, and insecurity are common themes expressed in this online presentation of almost 200 audio and video interviews, 45 graphic items, and 21 written narratives. The day after the attacks, the American Folklife Center called upon the nation’s folklorists and ethnographers to collect, record, and document America’s reaction. A sampling of the material collected through this effort was used to create the September 11, 2001, Documentary Project. This collection captures the voices of a diverse ethnic, socioeconomic, and political cross-section of America during trying times and serves as a historical and cultural resource for future generations. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
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