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The Marie Curie Actions program is funding science research in Europe:

The Marie Curie Actions provide research training, career development and mobility schemes allowing researchers to be truly mobile both internationally and between commercial and non-commercial sectors. There are opportunities for researchers at any career stage and of any nationality.

To explain their position, they have produced this video called CHEMICAL PARTY:

Also, if you haven’t seen it, here is an awesome ad for the Eppendorf EpMotion Pipetting Robot. This video was shot at Crissy Field:

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We saw this via reddit a few days ago and haven’t stopped laughing since.

At first, you see a highway, with lanes painted on it, and drivers are even attempting to stay in the lanes! Pretty tame for India you think.. no animals in the road, no randomly stopped vehicles, no one going the wrong way… and then….

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Tagged: india , motorcycle

We’ve been subscribing to KenFlix for 23 days and loving it! Here’s what we watched:

• Juno - better than I expected.
• Saawariya - the first ten minutes were so bad we turned it off.
• Once - we saw it in the theater and liked it. still good, but this movie is best watched once.
• Sopranos - Season 5 disc 4. They all blur together. I can’t watch any more of these for a while.
• No Country For Old Men - Good, but far too violent to watch with Jess and the parents.
• Someone to Eat Cheese With - Much better than I was expecting.
• Planet Earth on Bluray - We got this to test Bob’s sweet new home theater system. The encoding quality was disappointing. The places where you can usually hide quantization noise (foliage, high-freq areas) were encoded very poorly. It was sad to see panning shots across the forest exhibit so many compression artifacts. These guys need to use an encoder tuned to such scenes. Note: don’t ask a video codec engineer to review encoding quality of Bluray discs unless you want to get an earful..
• Be Kind Rewind - Slowish, neat plot but could have been much better.
• Congorama - Whoa. Unexpectedly, my favorite KenFlix so far!
• War - dunno. Only Bob watched it.
• Wave Twisters - Great, but Bob hadn’t seen it, and the DVD wouldn’t play. Oh well.
• Futurama: Beast with a Billion Backs - Disappointing. We had such high hopes!
• Eastern Promises - Very intense. Good, but good thing Jess didn’t see this one.
• Stray Dog - Japanese noir. Kurosawa is always good.
  

Bob & Jess, anything to add? Did I forget any?

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Tagged: 4star , bernal , kenflix

Beaker is one of my favorite muppets. Just watch this video, and you’ll agree!

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We are on the second day of our KenFlix subscription, and loving it! I was wondering if KenFlix was limited to just one movie per day, or if you could get a movie, watch it, and then immediately walk back to Four Star Video and get a new one. I told the folks at 4star we were going to have a KenFlix weekend where we would see how many movies we could watch in two days, and all three people working behind the counter said that was a perfectly great idea. Ridiculous!

So anyway:
(11 hours open per day) * (30 days per month) / (2 hours per movie) = 165 movies a month!

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Sam made this trippy video feedback clip by pointing a 1982 RCA video camera at a 1987 Sony trinitron. Playing with Sam’s video feedback rig is super fun.. you can mess with the zoom and focus of the camera and the color settings of the tv to interactively manipulate the video.

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Four Star Video has launched a subscription plan called KenFlix, and it appears NetFlix is about to lose the important Bernal Heights demographic.

The deal: $20/month for unlimited rentals, one out at a time.
Advantages of KenFlix: No waiting for DVDs to arrive in the mail. Video nerds can get 30 rentals a month if they go to 4star every day..
Disadvantages of KenFlix: 4star DVDs usually play in my player, unlike Netflix discs, which usually start to skip about half way through. This means whenever we pick a bad movie, we’ll actually have to watch the whole thing.

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Here is how I compiled FlowPlayer on Hardy:

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We don’t have a tandoor, so when we have a craving for fresh-baked naan, we have to improvise. Here is some video showing how we made naan using a pizza stone in our regular oven.

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The next step is to build a tandoor in the backyard.

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We went to the Holi festival in Sunnyvale today! Lots of fun :)

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Happy Holi!

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We went to see modeselektor last night at Mighty! It was super-packed.. a huge crowd for a Wednesday:

The Camo Bus was rockin outside… I love the fact that no one complains that there is an absolutely thunderous soundsystem set up on the street :)

Here is a short video of modeselektor being introduced. The Mighty soundsystem absolutely crushes the little microphone in my camera, so this video is kind of pointless but still fun. What you can’t hear in the video is an insane amount of soul-destroying bass:

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because I’m pretty sure I could learn a few things from these guys.

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Tagged: mice surfing

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Tagged: dance , prison

Check out this sunset timelapse that Mike shot using CHDK. Paragliders streak across the sky like lasers!

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It might have looked like this! (This was a school project by bhilmers)

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Wow, I really wanna see this! It’s going to be at the Lumiere on 3/28. More videos over here and more beats over here:

• DJTEE
• IAMISEE
• Peter Miser

Who wants to go?

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YouTubeFilter is a simple tool that scrapes the MetaFilter RSS feed and embeds the YouTube videos inline. I wrote it to make it easier to find cool videos to watch on my Wii.

Unfortunately, the Wii runs out memory when loading YouTubeFilter! And of course, Firefox bugs on the mac prevent some of the embedded videos from showing up unless you resize the window just right. Stupid firefox.

The code is checked into SourceForge. I use Beautiful Soup for parsing the RSS. Someone please help me make it work on the wii!

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Tagged: BeautifulSoup , opensource , python , youtube , YouTubeFilter

Stefan Sagmeister, one of my favorite print designers, is going to be giving a talk at Stanford tomorrow. It’ll be in Pigott Hall (Bldg 260, Room 113) at 8pm. Here’s more on him

Stefan Sagmeister is one of the most influential graphic designers in the world working today. Since 1993 Sagmeister Inc., has focused on all things printed, including posters, brochures, books, and graphics and packaging for music clients…He’s created iconic album covers for Lou Reed, the Talking Heads, and the Rolling Stones…

Also, here’s a talk that he did at TED in 2004 that I recently watched while on the train. It’s called “Yes, design can make you happy.” I don’t know if design always makes me happy but this talk definitely did!

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Found while searching for something South Park related:

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These spherical videos are stunning! It’s like Motion-QTVR. (via)

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Remember that Soulja Boy video that May posted? Well, here is Richard Stallman (yes, RICHARD STALLMAN) doing the Soulja Boy dance. His entourage is wearing labcoats, and he is holding a laptop. In a more perfect universe, it would be required that all music videos feature RMS.

via via

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I love this video. Jimmy Wales announces at the iCommons party that Wikipedia will become licensed under a Creative Commons ShareAlike license. The crowd, who has not been paying attention until now, goes nuts. Lawrence Lessig gets on the mic and and announces the third greatest thing to ever happen in his life.

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A Thanksgiving Pie, made with the apples from our apple tree:

A Thanksgiving Prayer, by William S. Burroughs:

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