More interesting Stuff

Watch the first two videos. The other links are so-so.



Check out this video of a mischievous Octopus.
I watched the beginning, and I was like "eh, another blurry underwater video", but the middle is really cool and serene, and the ending was like "WOAH" when things suddenly became brilliantly sharp and vibrantly colored. I think the music fits it pretty well too.

http://www.vimeo.com/10966874


This is an ad. . .And I can't believe I forgot about it while we were doing our presentations!
I think this best illustrates why you don't always want to re-touch photos too much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcbZ0v8Mpvk








A Good use for the new Apple iPad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9NP-AeKX40



A few links which I'll try and forward to the right people in our class who might find them interesting :


Both of these actually seem really important as we talk about social networking, and how much information about ourselves is floating around online - whether we know about it and want it out there or not.


"Google Street View Shoots Same Woman 43 Times"

The van with the camera that captures images for Google Street View was driving around at the same time (and about the same pace) as an English woman taking her dog out for a walk. Her husband found her on Google Street View 43 separate times.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20002799-71.html



Google and Library of Congress to Archive All Public Tweets

I'm not much of a Twitter fan. I think I want more then just 140 characters to say what it is I have to say, and its nice to add in pictures and links now and then. I'm tempted to move to Plurk, which is like twitter, Facebook, and instant messaging combined; You can post things, and your friends can comment on them, right on your page - So you can post a photo, and then watch/read your friends comments on it like a conversation.

I think that its an interesting idea to archive the public tweets, since there is a LOT of information conveyed by them - like when Obama was elected, I bet there were millions of people tweeting about his victory. A quote from within the article states

""Expect to see an emphasis on the scholarly and research implications of the acquisition. I'm no Ph.D., but it boggles my mind to think what we might be able to learn about ourselves and the world around us from this wealth of data," wrote a Library of Congress representative in a Facebook note."


What I'd like to know is how exactly they will be archived - For instance, If I have a tweet that I suddenly decide I don't want to be public, and I change the privacy settings on it, what happens? Does it get deleted from the archive? (I don't even know if you can set privacy setting for individual tweets, so it might be a moot point.)

http://money.cnn.com/2010/04/14/technology/Google_Twitter_archive/