Hooligans, The Untold Story
Documentary and English Soccer Thugs. Earwig oh, earwwig oh, earwig oh!
Running time: 59 mins.
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Queen Greatest Hits
Although I would never admit it in public, like on a website, I can’t help but sing along to this.
I’ve always been amazed by two things in showbiz: 1. how people were surprised that Liberace was gay, given that he was the most camp person on the planet; 2. that the millions of distinctly uncamp nerdy Queen fans were surprised that Freedie Mercury was gay, given that he was the second most camp person on the planet. I mean cummon – the band was called ‘Queen’.
Running time: 58 mins
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Alphaville
Jean Luc Goddard’s 1965 Science Fiction Film about ‘Alphaville’, a futuristic city on a different planet, that happens to be Paris in 1965.
I have always thought that Goddard was ‘Full of Sheet’, but for some reason this is reasonably interesting.
Running time: 1 hour 40 mins.
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A New Kind of Science – Stephen Wolfram
February 19th, 2007 Comments Off on A New Kind of Science – Stephen Wolfram | # link to | posted by david
Stephen Wolfram, a child prodigy and creator of the very successful Mathematica software application, locked himself away for several years and produced a 1000 page plus, mammoth tome – A New Kind of Science. He shunned peer review, suppressed findings from people working for him and duplicated much of the work of others either by accident or, as some have suggested, as the result of direct plagiarism. Nevertheless, there is something in what Wolfram says when he talks about a new kind of science, based upon cellular automata and emergent iterative systems, the unpredictable iteration of equations rather than equations themselves. This is an idea that is brewing in a different form in the work of others such as Stuart Kauffman and Lee Smolin.
Running time: 1 hour 27 mins.
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Iraq The Hidden Story
We live in an age of cellphone video clips and blogs, where we expect everything to be reported. The Iraq war is the exception – where things are so bad that the mainstream media dare not leave the Baghdad’s Green Zone and most of the original bloggers have fled to other countries.
Running time: 49 mins.
John Simpson, one of the UK’s best known journalists argues that what is really going on in Iraq is not reported.
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Evel Knievel
If you want to avoid seeing Ghost Rider, try this little gem.
If Elvis himself had played Evil Knievel, this would not quite have been the perfect post modern masterpiece that casting perma-tan-man George Hamilton in this role allowed.
Running time: 1 hour 23 mins.
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Milton Friedman on Limited Government
February 16th, 2007 Comments Off on Milton Friedman on Limited Government | # link to | posted by david
For all you budding libertarians out there. (BTW, my reply when people say that they are libertarians is to say: yes, but what are your politics? Since by definition, there is no ‘polis’ within the libertarian framework.) Anyway, whatever you think, Milton Friedman was pretty smart, and worth a peek. Apparently there is even a recent article about Blogging and Milton Friedman.
Running time: 29 mins
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What Makes Us Human part 1. Big Heads
February 15th, 2007 Comments Off on What Makes Us Human part 1. Big Heads | # link to | posted by david
What exactly is it that makes humans different from other animals? Presented by Armand Leroi
Running time, part 1: 47 mins.
Running time, part 2: 48 mins.
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Battleship Potemkin
Directed by Eisenstein, Battleship Potemkin regularly features in lists of top ten movies of all time.
Trivia: The famous scene where a pushchair bounces down steps was copied more recently in The Untouchables.
Running time: 1 hour 13 mins.
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