Friday, 13. April 2007

Collaborative Film-Making: The Basement Tapes And The New Wave Of Online Movie Mash-Ups


Want to see your online video mash-ups up there on the silver screen? The Basement Tapes is a collaborative documentary all about the changing face of copyright in the digital era, created by its online audience via video-sharing and remixing, an evolving online script powered by wiki-technology, and the rising new media form of the mash-up.

Collaborative Film-Making

masternewmedia.org

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Personal Madonna


A great mash-up of "Personal Jesus," one of my favorite Depeche Mode tracks, with "Like It Or Not," one of...well, one of Madonna's tracks. It's a terrific match and I vastly prefer this version to Madonna's original.

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Who are you calling chicken? T. rex's closest living relative found on the farm


Scientists have at last uncovered the closest living relative of the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex, the most feared and famous of all the dinosaurs. For the first time, researchers have managed to sequence proteins from the long-extinct creature, leading them to the discovery that many of the molecules show a remarkable similarity to those of the humble chicken.

guardian.co.uk

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Water detected on distant planet


Water has been detected for the first time in the atmosphere of a planet outside our Solar System.

The planet, known as HD 209458b, is a Jupiter-like gas giant located 150 light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus.

bbc.co.uk

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The Best Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs: PM Lab Test


Michael Patrissi, a lighting and production specialist at Popular Mechanics’ parent company Hearst Magazines, tests the color temperature and lux of a compact fluorescent light bulb.

popularmechanics.com

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Best Stuff in the World!


The Best Stuff in the World is an open, organic, polymorphous site which, depending on the user, could take on diverse forms and meanings. The site simply asks you to input your "best stuff" in the world: whether it be a song that inspires you, your favourite little Indian restaurant or the best explication of Kantian aesthetics ... it's up to you!

Best Stuff in the World!!

thebeststuffintheworld.com

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