So I was taking a break from my midterm and looking at Gizmodo today, and as I scrolled down the page I was surprised to see none other than Winston Noel, my long time friend, recent Best Man, and up-and-coming actor extraordinaire.
Just remember, you saw him here on 214 Studios first!
The crew at CollegeHumor have outdone themselves with their latest short, The Matrix Runs on Windows. The concept is pretty self-explanatory: the movie The Matrix if the construct was run on Windows XP. It’s incredible that content shot for the web is reaching the quality of the movies that it spoofs. Seriously, how good does this look?
Boasting the highest strength of any material ever discovered, as well as a host of other properties, carbon nanotubes have been a hot topic in nanotechnology for a while now. But researchers last month discovered a new form of carbon tubes. Being bigger than traditional carbon nanotubes, this new material falls under the category of colossal carbon tubes (CCTs), but with diameters on the order of tens of microns, they are still very tiny.
What makes these new CCTs interesting compared with carbon nanotubes or other carbon fibers is their spongy nature which not only makes them light, but strong and tough, too. [read more…]
Yes, it’s true. I am now officially a professional wedding videographer. I shot a wedding at Old Trail Golf Club in Crozet, Virginia near Charlottesville.
My wedding photographer, Jack Looney, knew I had some video experience so he referred a bride to me. She was looking for something simple and affordable, and it doesn’t get any more affordable than a graduate student.
I was very glad that Jack and my other wedding photographer, Dan Addison, were there to help me out a bit and keep me company. I was especially appreciative of their company since I was in the throes of a near-death-experience-like-illness. [read more…]
Got to my local polling place right at 6 AM when voting was scheduled to start. I waited in line for about 6 or 7 minutes for the doors to open (by which time the line stretched half way around the block), and was finished in a little less than an hour.
Via hilzoy, a video of eary voters in Atlanta waiting in line for eight to ten hours!
I think it says something that people are willing to wait in line that long to vote, but what about the people who are not, or cannot afford to do so? How many voters will be disenfrachized by this “time-tax”?
How important are subjects like science and math in education compared to the arts?
It’s a question that comes up pretty often, especially when the arts programs are getting cut to meet a budget or to fit in more preparation for state tests. And on the surface, it is easy to understand why some subjects are deemed more important than others.
But are they really? Or more appropriately, can they be important in different ways? Or reinforce each other? [read more…]
Without being smarmy about it or unfurling gotcha questions, ABC News anchor Charles Gibson demonstrated that he knows volumes more about national security and foreign policy than does Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
And on Palin’s response to Gibson’s question of what she thinks about the Bush Doctrine,
Palin attempts to fake it for 25 seconds with a swirl of generalities before Gibson, showing all the gentleness of a remedial social studies teacher, interjects… [read more…]
