Google Tech Talks
December, 12 2007
ABSTRACT
Shawn Frayne, a 28 year old inventor based in Mountain View, will talk about his wind belt. This is a power generation device, that is low cost and consists of a membrane that resonates like a guitar string, with a pair of magnets that oscillate between coils.
There was a story recently in Popular Mechanics - watch the video at:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4224763.
html?series=37
Speaker: Shawn Frayne
Shawn is the inventor of the core wind generator technology on which Humdinger is founded. Previous to his involvement with Humdinger, Shawn successfully matured two technologies, in the fields of "green" packaging and water disinfection, from concepts into developed products in pre-production. He established a strong intellectual property base surrounding those technologies and in early 2006 sold substantial rights to a Fortune 500 company. He is presently involved with refining the manufacturing processes of those products in facilities that have been built overseas.
He is also part of an on-going effort established four years ago at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop low-cost technologies by which entrepreneurs in Haiti can transform agricultural wastes into saleable cooking fuel.
Shawn has six pending U.S. patents. He has his Bachelor of Science in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
FACT: There aren't enough resources on this planet to sustain continued human growth and increasing quality of life.
FACT: If we want to avoid catastrophic war, suffering, and global shortages of energy, we need to start looking to space seriously for solutions.
Space Based Solar Power is the first step.
Music - "Pulse" by Yoko Kanno
www.energyfromspace.org
The program used to make this was indeed windows movie maker. Use it only as a last resort, though, because it sucks.
Big thanks for all comments and ratings, except those who are like "wtf wrong lyrics". I happen to god damned know that the lyrics are wrong and it is even kind of the point.
Other than that, y'all have a nice life.
~Gervis
NOTE (December 31, 2008) I looked at the number of views on this video this morning and man... IT'S OVER 9000!
(The above is a dragonball reference. If you did not understand, go buy all the books. Or else.)
Allowing Iran's president to deliver Channel 4's Alternative Christmas Message will cause "international offence", the UK government has said.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was shown telling viewers of the British TV channel "the general will of nations" was for a return to "human values".
The decision angered some MPs, who branded him a "dangerous fanatic" with anti-Semitic and anti-gay views.
Channel 4 said it had offered viewers an "alternative world view".
The speech, in Farsi with English subtitles, was the channel's 16th alternative message and was shown after a brief introduction to Mr Ahmadinejad contextualising his views.
In it, Mr Ahmadinejad congratulated the people of Britain on the anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ. He said that problems in society were rooted in the rejection of the message of the prophets of God, including Jesus.
And he criticised the "indifference of some governments and powers" towards the teachings of "the divine prophets".
However, a Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokeswoman said: "President Ahmadinejad has during his time in office made a series of appalling anti-Semitic statements.
"The British media are rightly free to make their own editorial choices, but this invitation will cause offence and bemusement not just at home but amongst friendly countries abroad."
Labour MP Louise Ellman, chairwoman of the Labour Jewish Movement, said: "I condemn Channel 4's decision to give an unchallenged platform to a dangerous fanatic who denies the Holocaust, while preparing for another, and claims homosexuality does not exist while his regime hangs gay young men from cranes in the street.
"Who will deliver next year's alternative Christmas message? Will it be David Irving or Robert Mugabe?"
Conservative MP Mark Pritchard, a member of the Commons all-party media group, said: "Channel 4 has given a platform to a man who wants to annihilate Israel and continues to persecute Christians at Christmas time.
"This raises serious questions about whether Channel 4 should receive an increased public subsidy for their programmes."
Israeli Ambassador Ron Prosor said: "In Iran, converts to Christianity face the death penalty.
"It is perverse that this despot is allowed to speculate on the views of Jesus, while his government leads Christ's followers to the gallows."
He said Channel 4's decision to broadcast the message was a "scandal and a national embarrassment" and in "its search for ratings and shock factor, Channel 4 had lost its ethical way".
Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell joined the attack, calling the president a "criminal despot, who ranks with Robert Mugabe, Omar al-Bashir of Sudan and the Burmese military junta as one of the world's most bloody tyrants".
'Enormously influential'
But Channel 4 defended its decision to broadcast the message.
Head of news and current affairs Dorothy Byrne said: "As the leader of one of the most powerful states in the Middle East, President Ahmadinejad's views are enormously influential.
"As we approach a critical time in international relations, we are offering our viewers an insight into an alternative world view."
A spokesman added: "Channel 4's role is to allow viewers to hear directly from people of world importance with sufficient context to enable them to make up their own minds."
He said the channel had not asked for increased public funding, rather an indirect subsidy to overcome a funding shortfall caused by the digital switchover.
Channel 4's first alternative message was delivered by gay icon Quentin Crisp in 1993.
Others to have given the broadcast include French actress Brigitte Bardot, former X Factor judge Sharon Osbourne and TV chef Jamie Oliver.
Last year's message was given by Sergeant Major Andrew Stockton, a British soldier who lost an arm fighting in Afghanistan.
Unlike previous years, the president's message was broadcast at night and not at the same time as the Queen's speech.
A funny alternative Spiderman 3 trailer.
Directed by Paul Greer.
NEW - Watch the Alternative Indy IV Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewNmik2CnaM
Coming soon - Star Wars: The Alternative Version
The Coalition for October Debate Alternatives (CODA) hosted a debate on Monday, Oct. 6, open to all third party candidates for president as well as the major party nominees.
The candidates who confirmed attendance include Brad Lyttle of the U.S. Pacifist Party, Charles Jay of the Boston Tea Party, Gloria LaRiva of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, Frank McEnulty of the New American Independent Party, Darrell Castle of the Constitution Party and Brian Moore of the Socialist Party. Bruce Barry, professor of sociology and professor of management at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt, is the debates moderator.
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An enterprising London firm is offering to gift-wrap men's presents so badly that their wives and girlfriends will assume their partner has done it all by themselves. (Dec. 19)
http://www.jakeludington.com/xbox/20080103_can_i_use_a_usb_w
ireless_adapter_with_my_xbox_360.html
Video demo of Ethernet over power line alternative to using the Xbox 360 Wireless Network adapter. This eliminates the need to rewire your house with Ethernet cable while providing a more reliable connection for online game play and streaming video to your Xbox 360. While the GameNet solution from Corinex is shown in the video demo, any of its competitors rated for 200 Mbps will also work.
For more alternatives to the offical Xbox 360 Wireless Network Adapter, see the article linked above
Italo-Western, Italy 1966
Original Title: Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo
(a.k.a. Zwei glorreiche Halunken)
Directed by Sergio Leone
Produced by Alberto Grimaldi
Music by Ennio Morricone
Starring Clint Eastwood, Lee van Cleef, Eli Wallach, Mario Brega & Frank Brana
(Fan Trailer, made by Nick Donelly)
Meet Dorothy Stoneman. After graduating from Harvard, Dorothy Stoneman joined the civil rights movement and lived in Harlem for 20 years. Seeing abandoned buildings, homeless people and idle youths moved her to start YouthBuild to create a positive future
