The Magic of Movie Editing
21 March 2007
A BBC documentary about the unappreciated art of film editing. Interviews with Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Steven Spielberg, Jodie Foster, and many more. Will it change the way you watch movies?
The Iditarod is Underway
4 March 2007
The 2007 Iditarod began Saturday (3/3)
Iditarod.com : A race over 1150 miles of the roughest, most beautiful terrain Mother Nature has to offer. She throws jagged mountain ranges, frozen river, dense forest, desolate tundra and miles of windswept coast at the mushers and their dog teams. Add to that temperatures far below zero, winds that can cause a complete loss of visibility, the hazards of overflow, long hours of darkness and treacherous climbs and side hills, and you have the Iditarod. From Anchorage, in south central Alaska, to Nome on the western Bering Sea coast, each team of 12 to 16 dogs and their musher cover over 1150 miles in 10 to 17 days.
The Iditarod Trail, now a National Historic Trail, had its beginnings as a mail and supply route from the coastal towns of Seward and Knik to the interior mining camps at Flat, Ophir, Ruby and beyond to the west coast communities of Unalakleet, Elim, Golovin, White Mountain and Nome. Mail and supplies went in. Gold came out. All via dog sled. Heroes were made, legends were born. In 1925, part of the Iditarod Trail became a life saving highway for epidemic-stricken Nome. Diphtheria threatened and serum had to be brought in; again by intrepid dog mushers and their faithful hard-driving dogs. The Iditarod is a commemoration of those yesterdays, a not-so-distant past that Alaskans honor and are proud of.
Every musher has a different tactic. Each one has a special menu for feeding and snacking the dogs. Each one has a different strategy — some run in the daylight, some run at night. Each one has a different training schedule and his own ideas on dog care, dog stamina and his own personal ability. The rules of the race lay out certain regulations which each musher must abide by. There are certain pieces of equipment each team must have — an arctic parka, a heavy sleeping bag, an ax, snowshoes, musher food, dog food and boots for each dog’s feet to protect against cutting ice and hard packed snow injuries. more…
OpenCongress.org
3 March 2007
“Bringing together official government information with news and blog coverage to give you the real story behind what’s happening in Congress.” View current bills, read about committees, issues…explore.
The Best of Technology Writing ‘06
3 March 2007
“When the Sous-Chef Is an Inkjet”
“The Rise of the Plagiosphere”
“Throwing Google at the Book”
“Sex, Fame, and PC Baangs”
“Cultural Sensitivity in Technology”
“Ups and Downs of Jetpacks”
