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We Are Clueless

I've grown to despise CK advertising. It's so tritely faux hip and is sooooo out of touch with today's youth and culture. It's as if they are advertising to an imaginary audience that they wishfully believe can somehow be converted into brand loyalists. They conjure this image of tragic stragglers on their way to becoming adults. Nihilistic drug fueled and lost. It's so far from reality. They are clueless. They are clueless as to who they think they are marketing to. They are clueless as to who they want as their customers. And they are clueless as to who their customers actually are. And that is why they produce for their marketing -- ironically through no post-modern twist of parody or intent on their part -- an image of Cluelessness.

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Quantum mechanics is a realm of weirdness: electrons being linked to each other even though the vastness of the universe might separate them, things being in two places at once, and, of course, knowledge precluding knowledge. This last is the standard bearer of quantum oddity: measuring the momentum of an object precludes precise knowledge of where that object is. But I think I have found something that is stranger than them all. Researchers have suggested that it might be possible to make measurements that trick a photon into thinking it is, in fact, a crowd of photons. Read the comments on this post #126;3/bzzQzEo7e7Y/another-example-of-the-weirdness-of-quantum-mechanics.ars

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I Am a Good Person/I Am a Bad Person

Film Reviews: Taking the "personal film" to an extreme, Canadian auteur Ingrid Veninger's "I Am a Good Person/I Am a Bad Person" is so sketchily drawn and obscure, it may be only the helmer herself who knows exactly what's up, leaving even sympathetic observers out in the emotional cold. Veninger's microbudget third feature will have difficulty mustering even minimal returns, given its anemic narrative and offhanded regard for its audience. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117946308?categoryid=31&cs=1&cmpid=RSS|News|LatestNews

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Headshot (Fon tok kuen fah)

Film Reviews: A Bangkok assassin's life turns upside down -- literally -- in "Headshot," a brooding Thai noir whose protagonist's vision is inverted when a bullet hits his brain. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117946253?categoryid=2863&cs=1&cmpid=RSS|News|LatestNews

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FIRST PERSON | Mark Cousins on His Epic "Story of Film"

EDITORS NOTE: "The Story of Film: An Odyssey" is filmmaker Mark Cousins' 15 hour documentary that chronicles the artistry of cinema. It is currently screening - for free - at the Toronto International Film Festival. It is screening in five 3-hour segments Monday through Friday at 10am, and then again in two larger chunks Saturday and Sunday. Cousins offered his thoughts on taking on such an ambitious project in the ... http://fb.indiewire.com/~r/indieWIRENews/~3/Hpwfzn_beRc/

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Physicists Confirm Existence of New Particle

Physicists working at Fermilab's particle accelerator have confirmed the observation of an entirely new particle -- the the Xi-sub-b baryon. http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/RBcHMIanAe4/

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Underground Experiment Fails to Find Dark Matter

A sensitive Italian experiment has found no sign of dark matter in 100 days of searching for the invisible material that is believed to account for 80 percent of the mass of the cosmos. But even in the absence of a discovery, data collected by the XENON100 experiment may shed light on fundamental physics. http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/pvIH8z66Mzk/

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HBO preems 'Cinema Verite'

Vpage: Reality TV's first family gets biopic -- Paramount turned itself into a time capsule from the 1970s to bring back the Louds of "An American Family" fame. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118035348?categoryid=4140&cs=1&cmpid=RSS|News|LatestNews

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Theory: Large Hadron Collider Could Be Used As Time Machine

There's a lot of theories out there about the Large Hadron Collider-- but time travel? Professor Thomas Weiler and graduate fellow Chui Man Ho are suggesting it's a possibility, and doesn't defy the laws of physics. However, they're very clear to point out that this is just a theory, and it would only involve particles, not human beings. "Our theory is a long shot," Weiler, who is a physics professor at Vanderbilt University, admitted to the school's research news department, "but it doesn't violate any laws of physics or experimental constraints." Read More... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/17/large-hadron-collider-time-machine_n_836834.html

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Experimental filmmaking that countered Hollywood

Screenings around L.A. of San Francisco-area alternative movies from 1945-2000 will honor the influential film scene. From the late 1940s through the present day, a certain well-known California city has been the epicenter of intrepid, innovative filmmaking that has dazzled viewers and shredded... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mediaredef/~3/3q4V7np7oIw/la-et-san-francisco-film-20110113,0,1947779.story

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Theorists seek dark matter in hot neutron stars

Dark matter is an enigma wrapped in a conundrum. We have lots of gravitational evidence for the presence of dark matter. In fact, the evidence is from so many different types of observations, and is all so consistent, that very few astronomers or cosmologists appear to doubt that some type of dark matter exists. That is the enigma: it is very likely to exist, but we know very little of the specific details about what exactly exists.

Going further than that has been a problem. The very nature of dark matter, which makes cosmologists so certain of its existence, means it has the very properties that make it so damn hard to find by any means other than gravitysomething of a conundrum, really. A recent paper that looks at how dark matter might be detectable in neutron stars inadvertently makes this problem very clear.

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she told me things no one else wood

snailbooty posted a photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/snailbooty/5018427022/

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are we mimicking or are we the mimicked?

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Lars von Trier's New Film Is a Long Way From Dogma

There was a period of time in the 90s when Dogma 95 was all the rage. Started by Lars von Trier and a group of apostle filmmakers, Dogme was a set list of rules for creating a film, like Thou shalt not use anything to light a scene but that light which is in a scene and Thou shalt use shaky handheld camerawork for all your film so the audience gets nauseous. They even had a Vow of Chastity! But Dogme begot Mumblecore, and so now von Trier is showing his displeasure with a complete scrapping of his former dogmatisim. And how apropo that his newest movie -- filled with flashy special effects and unnatural lighting -- is called Antichrist?Read the rest of Lars von Triers New Film Is a Long Way From Dogma

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Tool to Deceive and Slaughter

Perpetual online auction, internet connection, custom programming and hardware, acrylic cube.

Combining Robert Morris’ Box With the Sound of Its Own Making with Baudrillard’s writing on the art auction this sculpture exists in eternal transactional flux....