This is an interesting documentary. Entertaining, however I think a lot of it may be BS.
tagline: “What does Christianity, 911 and The Federal Reserve all have in common?”
Get info about the film, or download the torrent:
zeitgeistmovie.com
The above was released 6/25/07. This addendum was released 10/02/08:
Leave it to Shelby to blow the [electric car] world out the water with this beast. With 1000hp, top speed of 208mph and a 0-60 of only 2.5 seconds, this thing is sure to get you the company softball game quickly.
The most exciting thing to me though is they have technology which will allow it to be recharged in as little as 10 minutes. So while it has the typically short electric car range of 150-200 miles, 10 minutes isn’t really any longer than you’d spend at a gas station. Long distance travel could be possible.
Isn’t the majority of our electric produced from fossil fuels though? Why haven’t we gotten with that whole nucular thing.
Click the pics for their high rez glory, or check out Shelby’s official announcement page.
It’s funny that in Seattle they prioritize jaywalking over marijuana.. I jaywalk all the time! I moved here the week after Hempfest but I hear it’s quite the scene. If you click to the YouTube video page, they have a lot of excellent links in the sidebar.
Not sure if this ^ is true, but hemp does have the potential to screw over so many industries if it were just allowed to grow. Drug companies, chemicals, cotton, timber, etc. The ironic part is weed is already America’s #1 cash crop. (See also this about California’s #1 industry, pot)
This is fascinating stuff, especially the 2nd half. He was a little nerdier back in 2003!
Botany of Desire:
Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food
See also my earlier post featuring an interview with this man.
This is an entertaining film. I do think it’s preaching to the choir a little bit, and some of his methods are a little too antagonistic in my opinion, but an interesting watch nonetheless. I saw this film in a relatively empty theater and some people sat down directly behind us (who does that?) and one of these bitches laughed ridiculously at every other line. I didn’t find this film that hilarious, in fact I found it somewhat scary.
Another MUST SEE food industry doom-n-gloom documentary. It’s a little depressing, but there is some tunnel light in the last part. Buy organic!
edit2: here it is on Hulu.
Parts 2-9 after the jump Edit1: Here is only the first part remaining on youtube.. the pirated one got pulled. buy the dvd or see it elsewhere but watch it!
Interesting little vid on how to secure your pad with lasers for $20. Someone in the comments says that the circuit wouldn’t work and to use this one instead. I wouldn’t know, my schematic skillz are a little rusty.
More from my health/food “series”. A powerful Peter Jennings piece on the nasty side of the American food industry. These phenomenon are now also creeping into the rest of world as its growing middle class starts eating more of a Western diet.
Part 1:
(Watch parts 2-5 after the jump..)
These links have been sitting in my tabs for a while, and rather than post them individually, I’m going to drop them here together.
Cheetah joins endangered species list
Scientists Back Brain Drugs for Healthy People
Is Einstein the Last Great Genius?
Proof that Albert Einstein’s black holes do exist, claim scientists
Black hole confirmed in Milky Way
Why We Procrastinate and How to Stop
Academics invent a mathematical equation for why people procrastinate
Does a short haircut mean women have gone off sex?
Men find long, wavy locks the sexiest hair do, while short hair leaves them cold, says poll
Young women ‘have more sexual partners’ than men
Birth Control Pills Affect Women’s Taste in Men
Could Males Really Become The Weaker Sex?
Cold Sore Virus Linked To Alzheimer’s Disease: New Treatment, Or Even Vaccine Possible
World’s first flying car on the roads from next year – yours for just £130,000
This is an interesting documentary about how a healthy diet is both the prevention and cure to most modern disease, and the medical profession and pharmaceutical companies don’t want you to know it. It’s a bootleg, some guy filmed his TV screen. Find parts 2-9 here. Or better yet don’t be a pirate and go to foodmatters.tv and buy the DVD.
Similar in vein to the Michael Pollan stuff I posted the other day. He talks about modern agribusiness and lightly pleads a return to eating healthily.
I didn’t even know he smoked..
…When cannabis is legalized, I hope to see this ratio as one of the parameters printed on the pack. I hope that time isn’t too distant; the illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world….
Wow. Too bad it’ll be ignored. 6 of the top 20 questions deal with the failed Drug War..
