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Educational investment resource
Yesterday I wrote about FORA.tv, and today I have an free other online educational resource for those who are interested for a reason or other in the world of finance / investment: the MarketPlace Whiteboard (found it via zero hedge). Here senior editor Paddy Hirsch explains with the help of a whiteboard (hence the name)…
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FORA.tv
I discovered FORA.tv just recently, but I’m already a huge fan. If you like TV channels like Discovery or National Geographic, you will certainly find something of interest here. What’s great: it’s free with very little and unobtrusive advertisement the programs are professionally recorded / postprocessed (no volume-to-low-to-hear problems here) link to individual parts of…
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Some fun timewasters 🙂
Found this one via h-i-r.net: And the following one is from friends (these are in German, but many of them can be enjoyed even if you don’t know the language): Some of the highlights from both of the channels:
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Basic multi-media (post)processing
Having the best audio/video quality available when you publish media is very important. I’ve heard an theory (which sound logical – although that doesn’t automatically mean that it is true :-)) that if the voice quality is poor, you get more tired of listening to it, since your brain works harder during the interpretation phase…
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No codec packs please!
A recent posting by fellow blogger Claus reminded me of a frequent problem I see on computers I’m called to for “fixing”: codec packs (like K-Lite, CCCP, etc). They are usually installed so that the computer can play back all the video formats which can be found out there. All fine and dandy, right? Wrong!…
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A must see southpark video
Via ZeroHedge. Usually I find Southpark videos a little too preachy / childish, but this too funny. You can watch the full episode here. After it you can enjoy some Pink Floyd 🙂
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Great songs
Seasons in the sun – I just found out that it is an adaptation of a French song. It was one of the songs of my childhood, from a Russian vinyl disc (I’m quite sure that they didn’t pay royalties on that one :-)). And two great ones ones from Die Toten Hosen:
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You’ve come a long way baby!
In the spirit of Fatboy Slim’s Right Here / Right now Comes the following video about Yahoo Mail: Communication Evolution @ Yahoo! Video I got started on Yahoo Mail back in the day and it always served me well. Thank you! PS: Cat and dog saying Yahoo Mail
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Interesting media
Short updates from Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller fame on the pennsays YouTube channel. My only grief is that a few videos are unavailable due to “age or location restrictions”, which really seems just an oversight, since the content most probably isn’t published anywhere else (like TV) to warrant such restrictions. I tried to…
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Interesting videos
It seems that the Internet is helping more and more to find the equilibrium point between the needs of “big media” and “independent media”. In this post I would like to mention two sources of useful / interesting videos: The first would be the videos from the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference (credit goes to…