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Wasteland © 2009 - Produced by Bombay Flying Club - Poul Madsen - Brent Foster - Line Wolf Nielsen - Henrik Kastenskov
by gregg
For almost a century Jharia coal fields have been on fire in the Indian state of Jharkhand, due to poor mining techniques.
Many of the people who live on the burning fields survive by collecting coal illegally. The coal is burned and then transported to nearby markets for very little money.
A resettlement plan has been put in place, but the area's residents are reluctant to move to safer grounds because the coal earns them their livelihood...
This story has been shot entirely with the Canon 5D Mark II by Poul Madsen and Brent Foster from Bombay Flying Club - bombayfc.com.
Journalist on the story was Line Wolf Nielsen
Sous-titres sous http://vimeo.com/4542282
Dead pixel in Google Earth – today and tomorrow
by karlcow
“Dead pixel in Google Earth” by Helmut Smits, 82 x 82 cm burned square, the size of one pixel from an altitude of 1 km.
2008
Op-Ed Columnist - Terrorism That’s Personal - NYTimes.com
by karlcow
Since 1994, Ms. Bukhari has documented 7,800 cases of women who were deliberately burned, scalded or subjected to acid attacks, just in the Islamabad area. In only 2 percent of those cases was anyone convicted.
Royal Pingdom » Billion-dollar Web acquisitions that crashed and burned
by kasi77
By the end of the nineties the Web had risen to become a huge factor in the world economy, and we were at the height of the dot-com bubble. Billion-dollar acquisitions of Web companies were not uncommon.
This article lists billion-dollar Web acquisitions that never delivered on their promise. Some companies and services dwindled away into obscurity, some were sold for significantly less money than they were bought for, and some just crashed and burned.
Many of these brands are still in use today, though they don’t have the luster they once had.
Chinese security forces swarm Tibet - Yahoo! News
by Hemanshu
Soldiers on foot and in armored carriers swarmed Tibet's capital Saturday, enforcing a strict curfew a day after protesters burned shops and cars to vent their anger against Chinese rule. In another western city, police clashed with hundreds of Buddhist monks leading a sympathy demonstration.
FAVC - FAVC Homepage
by jdrsantos
FAVC is a GUI that enables you to easily make DVDs from video files. It takes one, or more, video files and produces a dvd folder ready to be burned to a dvd disc that should play in any regular dvd player. FAVC uses several pieces of free software to acc
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2007
FreeSBIE - Free System Burned In Economy
by jdrsantos
& 3 others
FreeSBIE is a LiveCD based on the FreeBSD Operating system, or even easier, a FreeBSD-based operating system that works directly from a CD, without touching your hard drive. We also develop a simple to use and easily extendable toolkit used for the creati
Smoking Risks and High Blood Pressure
by earlblack
When you play with fire, you get burned. When you smoke, you run the risk of getting burned inside and out. Whether tobacco is smoked, chewed, or taken in by any other means, the nicotine in the tobacco raises the blood pressure.
Self-burning in Luxembourg.
by denmx
Women - strange essences. 45 years old woman from Congo with the Belgian citizenship (name unknown) burned herself as a protest against she was not authorized to open shop in Luxembourg.
TheFunded.com: The Resource for Entrepreneurs.
by cyberien
& 3 others
As a serial entrepreneur, I have come to realize over the years how important fundraising is and how difficult it can be.
First, fundraising is far too time consuming for the entrepreneur, wasting valuable time required to grow the business. Second, the fundraising process is often like speed dating with a long-term relationship at the end where you split the proceeds. Everyone puts their best face on, and it is only when the deal is done do you get to see the real value, if any. I have personally been burned, and so have many of my friends.
So, I set out a guide to help entrepreneurs find the perfect funding source for their business. Imagine if you had a comprehensive database of funding sources with practical insights from entrepreneurs who have dealt with the funds...
* Search for any fund in the world by name, and the list on the left dynamically updates, showing the top rated funds first.
* Browse for funds by "region" and "funding level" above, and the list of left will save your selection, allowing you to browse with next and previous links.
* View fund reviews, commentary, facts, and investor contact information by clicking on the fund name.
* RSS feeds of the most recent public comments from members is available to keep you up-to-date with funding source news.
* Membership is reserved for entrepreneurs by invitation only. Want a membership? Members must log-in for these benefits:
* Edit and Add funds and partners by clicking the respective links, but please make sure to include accurate information.
* Review any fund on a 1-5 scale across five performance criteria to create an overall average fund rating.
* Comment on both fund and partner performance with both public and private recommendations, and access the private commentary of others.
* Agree and Disagree instantly with the comments by just clicking on the feedback links.
* Invite other entrepreneurs to the community by clicking on the Invite Members link next to your login name above.
Funding Level Key:
* Very Small = $0.0 to $.5 MM investments
* Small = $0.5 to $1.0 MM investments
* Medium = $1.0 to $5.0 MM investments
* Large = $5.0 to $15.0 MM investments
* Very Large = $15.0 + MM investments
Read Smarter Try Audio Books
by balara
The creme de la creme of audio books ready to download to your mp3 or 4 or ipod. Can also be burned to CD. Thousands of well known books in a large variety of categories and subcategories. Be a cool cat and feed your mind while you jog, walk the dog, wait in queues, etc. How about tackling a foreign language...no joke, it's a breeze with our audio books.
"SurFace", dreaming methods
by schmul.net
A matrix of memories, fragmented thoughts, animated scribbles, poetry and narratives from a protagonist who has burned every last one of his material belongings.
index_html
by jpcaruana
(via)
This is a simple little app I coded up to play around with Core Data. I have a lot of problems keeping track of my CDs that I burn. So a couple of years ago, I coded up a little python script that scanned the contents of disks I burned and gave me an ID for it so I could just write on the disk "Disk #22" or whatever. Then, when I later needed say "Cool file" on disk 22 I would search the DB and get the ID number, then get the disk.
2006
In Defense of Television
by Vitiare
While it is very easy to fall into a mindset that says television is nothing more than an instrument of the devil that should be burned at the stake, it is only fair to state that an argument can be made that watching television could actually contribute in a positive way to a person's intelligence, creativity and overall quality of life in much the same way that reading a book could. It merely depends on what you watch and how you watch it.
Apple - Boot Camp
by naudjf
& 13 others
After the installation process is complete and your Mac has booted Windows, you’ll need the Macintosh Drivers CD you burned previously.
Nabeel's Cosmos
by nzeeshan
(via)
I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more. Narrator | Fight Club
CD Duplication vs CD Replication
by Webmaster12
CD Duplication vs CD Replication CD Duplication refers to make copies or master disk by CD burning. These days most of us have CD Burner or CD-Writer on personal computers, using that we can make multiple copies of any Audio, Video or Data CD. On the other hand, CD Replication refers to pressed CDs. In CD Replication process, a stamper is made that puts the information into the molded compact disc. It like the regular ink stampers which are used to make impressions like “Q.C. Passed” or “Paid”, it’s just similar to that. Carried by a conveyor belt, the molded compact discs have a pressing arm come down on them that stamps the information into them.
CD Duplication and Promoting Music Band After recording the demo to CD for your music band, you would need a CD Duplication firm that duplicates music CDs. A CD duplication firm can offer you a minimum quantity of 200-300 pieces for a reasonable price. It is a great opportunity for small music bands and lower-budget music projects. In case you have a higher budget and a bigger project, you can go for a long-run CD replication job. For CD replication the minimum quantity would be more than 500-600 pieces and the CDs are pressed instead of burned.
CD/DVD Duplication for Corporate World There are different uses for CD duplication and DVD duplication in the corporate environment. It could be a presentation project that needs to be duplicated and distributed, or a report that needs to be distributed. For the smaller projects choosing the CD media would be useful as most compact discs can hold up to 80 minutes of audio or 700 MB of data. A DVD media can hold up to 4.5 GB of information where the new dual-layer DVD can hold up to 8.5 GB data. So choosing DVD for larger or multiple file duplication project will be more suitable.
Top 10 dot-com flops - CNET.com
by nianox
The companies that burned through the most VC money to the least effect
Whiny Guy Feels Trapped By iTunes
by misspaige
& 2 others
You know, the increasing restrictions on the usage of songs and videos bought off of iTunes is beginning to wear on me. Apple needs to take a closer look at the original terms they offered, specifically the number of burned CDs allowed per setlist.
Woman Raped by Values - Andrew of Arabia
by Mumvy
Hoogeveen read her personal letter of thanks to Wade MacLauchlan [who] ordered all copies of the newspaper confiscated, burned, and the ashes scattered to the four corners of the earth.
