Here it is, from the mouth of a law professor – SHUT UP when the police wants to talk to you…
Never talk to the police
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The Power of “Thank You!”
The intro to Laura Trice’s TED talk calls it deceptively simple but like with all very “true facts” it appears so simple yet is often extremely hard to attain. This talk is a perfect example, just look at the ease with which Ms. Trice walks the talk at the end. I don’t know many people who can blow you away with a simple thank you like she did.
Dancing for the Election Victory
Here we have another great way to decide the election in a more reasonable fashion than it is done right now…
Don’t you think that this is way more civilized than hiring ad agencies and professional smearers to decide the election based upon the skills of these people?
The idea that people decide based upon issues I gave up when Ron Paul was outed. Sure, he was more outed by the media killing him by nor reporting about him, but then again, the populace should be interested in finding out about candidates and not wait for the press to spoon-feed them the information they think is the right for the herd to have.
The End of America – Naomi Wolf
Here is a film with and about Naomi Wolf, author of “The End of America: Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot,” I think every American should watch.
She starts out her story that, in a conversation, a friend repeatedly says “They did this in German” – “They did this in Germany” referring to the current events in the US.
In the film that intersperses her talk with footage, driving home the points she makes, she then demonstrated how the ten points common to all totalitarien regimes, can today be observed in the good old US of A.
It’s a long film, so get a beer, get some chips, lean back and enjoy – Oh well, don’t know if you can really ‘enjoy’ it, but it’s not all doom and gloom, because once you know and understand what’s going on, then and only then can you start to do something about it.
The End of America – Naomi Wolf
I noticed that this link does not go to the film any more, so here’s a YouTube video where she conveys her story in a different setting…
and here she is in an interview…
Japanese Music Video Update
Who would ever forget the Hinoi Team I told you about some time ago?
For reason of variety – not that this is any better than the Hinoi Team – I would like to pass on another find…
Watching these Japanese videos – and other Japanese TV clips on YouTube – I notice that most of the girls really look like girls, don’t they. I mean in contrast to women.
I can not imagine that these girls are really as young as they appear to (western) eyes, so I am wondering if the Japanese culture has bread its women looking so young-girl-ish. There seems to be an ideal woman type that is noticable different in different cultures. How else could you tell, on first glance, that this is a german woman, the next one is from Mexico and yet one over this girl (!) is from Thailand?
But maybe we don’t have to think too much about this as over time McDonald will make them all the same – I noticed that when hanging out at the Thai temple, that more and more young Thai girls look like the good BigMac fed American girl. Any insights…
Campaigning all together
Remember the scene in one Harry Potter film where the wizards in training are taught to face their biggest fear? The trick was to stand up to the fearsome thing and yell out “Ridiculous!” I try to teach this also to my son when he is afraid of something, for example in a dream, or if he accidentally sees something really scary on TV and any monsters follow him into his bedroom.
Now, politics, especially before an election, can be very scary – especially when you read and understand some of the things Larken Rose tries to tell us. But we can look beyond the scary part and actually see how ridiculous the whole business of campaigning is and I am glad to report that there are some out there who can still say a hearty RIDICULOUS!
Mating of the common water shrew
This is an amazing work of cinematography. I can imagine the hours on hours of observations, waiting for just the right moment to get the high speed cameras rolling.
Fascinating also to be introduced to the totally different world, a world that to our eye seems to be so peaceful, but is in reality a jungle.
You really want to see this in the highest quality as possible – I found a good version on the water shrew website.
Seinfeld/Gates v. Hodgman/Long
I have to admit that I liked and enjoyed the – unfortunately only – two Microsoft ads featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates. In case you have not seen them, here they are…
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For me, Microsoft has redeemed itself for all the bad things it has done in the past. That might sound a bit strong, but these ads are so good that I admire Microsoft that it had the guts to run them. OK, it must have been so far beyond anything the usually confused participants in this game could understand that it was mostly rejected – and the ads have been pulled.
I think that the ads have nearly a Monty-Pythonishness and only a person well trained in Douglas-Adamishness can really appreciate them. This group is rather small, so it was drowned by the masses.
Compared to the Apple ads with John Hodgman as PC and Justin Long as Mac the Microsoft ads are so totally senseless that they have broken reality – and I can’t help it, but I like surreal. Forces you to look beyond the daily seriousness. OK, the Apple ads don’t appear serious, but they are, they are adversarial in nature by trying to put down the PC. (Funny side note that the PC character became the more lovable and better known, publishing books and being interviewed by Xeni Jardin of Boing-Boing fame.)
Now lets look at the MS ads – off-the-wall, surreal and imaginative – and, I forgot, weird. What MS shows me here is that they could be just as unusual as Apple as a company, but that they have decided not to go this route because there were too few people to understand what they would have been doing. Instead they went with that what is real to most people – confusion!
So, by catering to the reality of this majority of the population, they managed to dominate the world with their software and now they can come out of the closet – and they did.
Congratulations!
Woody Allen inteviews Billy Graham
When I ran into this video of an interview of Billy Graham by Woody Allen I thought that this can be very interesting – and that turned out to be the case indeed.
From the introduction:
Woody Allen: “I don’t agree with him on a great many subjects. There are a few that we do agree on. But he is certainly the best in the world in what he does – Mr. Billy Graham!”
Billy Graham: “It’s very nice to be with you Woody, and I’d like to say that there is some things that I don’t agree with you on.”
Woody Allen: “The question is which one of us will be converted…”
But see for yourself…
and the second part…
I really liked Woody Allen’s little stab: “If you could have faith in me…”
or the little exchange…
Billy Graham: “O no, God is perfect!”
Woody Allen: “You know when I look in the mirror in the morning, it’s hard for me to believe that.”
Keith Barry on TED with some real Magic
Many years ago I watched a performance by David Copperfield on TV. We were sitting together in amazement watching Mr. Copperfield fly. It was a show he performed in Las Vegas in which he freely flew over the cuckoo’s nest – no wait – across the stage.
It was really impossible to fathom how he could do what he did with all the accepted laws of physics in full force. You could imagine strings – but then again – he flew through loops. There was just no way how all this could be possible – but still, we saw it with our own eyes. OK, not quite, there was a camera, lots of technology and a TV screen between us, but this was a life performance from a stage in Vegas and we all discounted the possibility that video tech was used to fool us.
I finally decided that the only possibility was that he was simply able to fly – and why not?
Should I be able to manage that feat now, I could imagine that I would create curiosity in form of a magic show to make some serious money (David Copperfield certainly did, and even managed the magic trick of convincing Claudia Schiffer to marry him.) Curiosity is, after all, the biggest magnet of attention, so if he would have gone around and demonstrated to everybody without a doubt that he could fly, he would have ended up in some government labs and he would have never been able to offer his island for rent for a mere 32,000 dollars a day. So, leaving it open to doubt that he could indeed fly was definitely a smart move.
But I am digressing a bit, I actually wanted to look at the possibility that something that’s not possible, IS possible – like flying! Douglas Adams gives us a simple recipe on how to learn. He teaches us that you just have to throw yourself to the ground – – and miss!
Sounds silly, but I actually believe, it’s true – honestly!
I remembered all this today when I watched another great magician who had demonstrated his abilities on the TED conference in 2004 – Keith Barry. He sampled some amazing tricks that probably keeps lots of people awake trying to figure out how he did it within the framework of accepted physics.
For me again the question was why accept the restriction of accepted physics? There are many things normal to us today that certainly appears to be magic to a person traveling on a time machine from 1500 AD. I am sure that physical laws have changed since then to allow for 400 ton chunks of metal hanging in the air for example. The first who bent and maybe broke the laws a little did it in a crude way, but they opened the floodgates for the changes.
Just take a look at what he amazes us with and tell me that this is NOT real magic…