Kamalesh Thakker

Posts tagged with "video"

Earth-Touch Wildlife Podcasts in HD

Monday, 1. June 2009, 04:45:53

I've just discovered the most AMAZING HD programming I've ever seen in my life. Earth-Touch is based in South Africa and has teams of HD videographers throughout the world uploading their footage via satellite. Cool stuff; growing up watching Wild Kingdom on the old color CRT TVs was never this good.

Watching it on a huge LED TV via Apple TV isn't too shabby either.

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Swimming with a Mola Mola in Bali

Friday, 25. April 2008, 19:30:47

nature, video

WOW!

Act Like An Otter

Sunday, 1. April 2007, 01:42:21

video

Pretend you're an otter today and hold someone's hand -- like these little cuties in Vancouver.

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Ex-Insider Says SEC Clueless

Sunday, 25. March 2007, 03:16:17

video

Jim Cramer is a business show host on CNBC and an ex-hedge fund manager on Wall Street. After his flippant discussion of stock manipulation, are you nervous yet?

Yeah, [about] Apple. It's very important to spread the rumor that both Verizon and AT&T don't like iPhone. It's also easy to spread the rumor it won't be ready... The people that write about Apple need a story...

Is SEC Commissioner Christopher Cox feeling stupid yet?

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Peregrine's Stoop

Monday, 19. February 2007, 08:03:56

nature, opera, video, browsers

Given the Opera Desktop team's announcement about their aggressive roadmp for desktop browser development having a raptor theme, you might be wondering what a stoop, while hunting, actually looks like (wherein the Peregrine Falcon experiences the largest g-forces of any large animal in the natural world -- 25 g).

Wow, scary for a poor rabbit or pigeon, but very cool for browser users...!

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TV or Not TV?

Monday, 19. February 2007, 05:44:15

tech, video

Some interesting things taking place relative to online video and "TV" as I'm sure you know; especially with online video making on-demand viewing almost ubiquitous (outside of your Tivo or ReplayTV or Moxi).

Joost just started to seed their P2P-based TV platform with clients for Windows and Mac. Video sites like Youtube and Google Video and Dailymotion are booming. Finding online video of whatever interests you is getting easy and shockingly long-tailed. I mean, you can find a clip of the not-so-silent Charlie Chaplin in his amazing 1940 film gem, The Great Dictator or a 1968 Canadian interview of the great media theorist, Marshall McLuhan or Larry Page, Google's co-founder speaking at AAAS or a human slingshot.

Cringely is making some interesting comments on how he thinks the new Apple TV hub is being positioned.

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All You Need Is...

Saturday, 17. February 2007, 20:38:55

space, video, music

If you're not sure how to finish that sentence...you missed the first-ever global satellite TV program seen in 26 countries simultaneously, back in 1967. (OK, I was little then, but still...you can relive it online here.) Certainly an interesting intersection of genius between Arthur C. Clarke and The Beatles.

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WEEEEEEEE!

Friday, 16. February 2007, 06:18:48

nature, video

That's the sound, Fuji, the girl dolphin, is making as she's doing her jumps after Churaumi Aquarium in Okinawa and Bridgestone Tire Co. gave her an artificial fin. Wow, amazing. (I wonder if health insurance covered the US$83K bill?)

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Carl Sagan Memory

Wednesday, 14. February 2007, 02:45:37

video, space

Wonderful article by Dennis at NYT about Carl Sagan, the astronomer and world citizen, and a great book released called, "The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God" by Ann Druyan, his widow. It's a compilation of Dr. Sagan's lectures given in Glasgow in 1985. He had a groundbreaking series called Cosmos that certainly changed people's lives and the way we viewed the Universe.

Here's an interview with Dr. Sagan on PBS' Charlie Rose from January 1995. (Move video marker to 39:30 mark to skip first two guests...or click on the picture above.)

There's a moving tribute on Ann's blog about remembering Carl that is quite touching.

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