Tag: Data
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The Rise, Lies, & Demise of Jan Hendrik Schön
I rarely ever watch documentaries on YouTube. Even rarely a science documentary. Never a documentary about…falsifying data and research?! Sounds boring right? Wrong. I just spent nearly two hours watching these. This is the story of how Jan Hendrik Schön became a Physics superstar, on the way maybe to a Nobel prize…until it all came…
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Sita Sings the Blues; or why music licensing stifles creativity
Sita Sings The Blues is a wonderful film mixing a Sanskirt ancient epic with great 1920’s music and incredible animation. Nina Paley spent 3 years doing this I think partly autobiographical animation – in parts incredibly breathtaking, laugh-out-loud funny, charming, and moving. So can you see it? I mean those 1920’s songs must be out…
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Open source imagery
I usually cover copyright issues of a different nature; ones regarding audio. But as a keen photographer and designer I love images, and know how hard it is, or was, to find open source images. One big addition to this is Flickr Commons – several big museums and collections have gotten together with Flickr to…
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dirCaster hacked to use ID3v.2
I did this ages ago before I setup this blog, but I modded/hacked/buggered around with Ryan King’s dirCaster to include ID3v.2 tags. If you don’t know what dirCaster is, well created before PodCast-A-Matic, it is a PHP script that creates an RSS feed automatically from your ID3 tags in your MP3 – so all you…