Science Library Pad

HBO documentaries on iTunes

HBO Documentary Films has a, what do we call video podcasts, a vodcast?  Anyway, has audio and video free on iTunes.

This includes the entire film Too Hot Not to Handle, about the effects of global warming on the United States, in four parts, plus an interview.  Each part is roughly 100 MB.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

interview with Laurie David

Google Visualization - the Genesis Effect?

Sometimes it is a long trail that leads to a blog posting.

from grockwel: Research Notes: Google Visualizations

Looks like Google has been developing demo visualizations, see Even More Google Photos.

which leads me to Yoz Flickring photos from the Googleplex

which looks disturbingly to me like the Genesis Effect from Star Trek II, which led me to search for some images

(from A Critical History of Computer Graphics and Animation)

And also to today's info tidbit, perhaps of use in some future Trivial Pursuit you may be playing

[The] "Genesis sequence" was the first completely computer-generated sequence in a film (created by the Lucasfilm division). It just beat Tron (1982) into release to take the honor of being the first film to use computer-generated images (CGI).

from Milestones in Film History: Greatest Visual and Special Effects, Part 3