I loaded a video from iMovie to YouTube. No luck. I loaded a modified version (no copyright music). iMovie swears it's pubished to YouTube. But no sign of it on YouTube almost 24h later. I think YouTube hates me.
I tried Vimeo, but even after 9hrs my humble video, less than a minute long, only a Meg, still hadn't loaded. Ho hum. So I aborted. Dr Henry Gee Senior Editor (Biological Sciences) nature@nature.com http://www.nature.com/nature See Nature's new guide to authors at www.nature.com/nature/submit
- Henry Gee
from email
That's a good point, Frank. This would/wood appear to tie in with Henry's new band, 'SofaGuru'.
- Graham Steel
i think maybe his fish have made some very powerful enemies - ones who might try to take them out with tactical nukes
- Christina Pikas
That's definately an unmistakable possibility, Christina. We're talking BIG fish however. According (at least) to Google's street view of Maison Des Girrafes, Cromer, I get this:- http://is.gd/2VwBn
- Graham Steel
You are all extremely silly people, and I love you all.
- Henry Gee
from email
It's like people going on and on about a party that we were not invited to! I watched about half of the video here: http://wave.google.com/. How email would be designed if it was invented now... You probably have heard all about it now...
- Bronwen Dekker
I think you've hit the nail on the head. Basically, I'm just sore I didn't get to go to SciFoo.
- Henry Gee
re: FRRS, there's a clue here:- http://www.norfolkrailwaysocie... Station friends make their mark Anglia Railways’ “Adopt a Station” scheme is starting to bear fruit. Following requests from adopters, litter bins will be installed as a trial at some unstaffed stations. At Halesworth a grant has been won from Suffolk County Council to install a new bench on the...
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- Graham Steel
Henry, you (we) ARE old. *dodders off mumbling into his beard*
- Bill Hooker
"I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser..." That's my favourite, but the whole thing is full of little gems like that.
- Bill Hooker
Ahoy there CISB'09 shipmates. No sign of the film as yet but I'll hopefully provide an update soon. In the meantime, here's an audio clip of the closing titles sequence, played so illustriously by Dr Gee:- http://www.divshare.com/downloa...
"I don't give a flying fig about the reproductive plumbing of Mr Cameron's economic advisers ... this is the province of Harriet Harman and that army of Labour women whose enforced recruitment into safe parliamentary seats has done so much to set back the cause of female political participation."
- Henry Gee
from Bookmarklet
What with Britain up against it financially, you'd have thought that McBroon's sock puppet would have used today's budget as an opportunity to encourage flexible and remote working, thus stimulating the regional economy, opening up employment opportunities and reducing carbon emissions in one. But no - it was all about 50% tax bands for those earning above £150k, the effect of which will earn the government a little more than £1bn when it has already borrowed 170 times that much. How chippy. How typically fucking socialist.
- Henry Gee
from Bookmarklet
How long, O Lord, how long will it be before journalists stop talking about 'ancestors' and (cough spew choke) 'missing links'?
- Henry Gee
from Bookmarklet
Mangoes, bacon and lolcats...Or alternatively how awesome Rahsheen is.
- Alex Scoble
Some choices: a) power relationships online (as seen at ScienceOnline'09), b) why Dunbar Number is not appropriate for analysis of online relationships, c) a cool new paper on circadian rhythms in harvester ants. Anything else?
- Bora Zivkovic
Mangoes I don't have an opinion on. Bacon I love. LOLcats excite me. Rahsheen is always awesome but exceeded himself with awesomeness this week. But can I really say something original about it?
- Bora Zivkovic
Hmm, twitter? I guess you could propose that all scientific publishing be done through twitter?
- j1m
Frankly, I'm sick of twitter this week - perhaps indefinitely! so anything but twitter
- Neil Saunders
If I do b) I may have to mention Twitter, at least as an aside. But I am myself sick of talking about it, and want something fresh this week. Also feel I don't have much to add to my monumentally long post from 2 wks ago about blogging vs. journalism (including science journalism) so that is on Pause as well this week.
- Bora Zivkovic
CILANTRO! And why some otherwise awesome people are big fat poopyheads because they do not understand this awesome herb.
- Steven Perez
Cilantro is interesting. I love it. But there are people who cannot stand it. Question is why: is it cultural (did not grow up with it so do not like taste when tried as adults) or is it physiological (their taste receptors are different and they taste cilantro as really awful). Will have to dig into the literature to see if there is anything about this....
- Bora Zivkovic
What do you mean by power relationships online?
- Martin Fenner
How the Web disrupts the existing power relationships (in various areas of science: academia, publishing, education, global science), usually democratizing, but sometimes replacing an old power structure with a new power structure. I am looking forward to thoughts and examples of this. Really a follow-up on my "shock value of science blogs" post: http://scienceblogs.com/clock...
- Bora Zivkovic
I would be very interested in a blog post about power relationships in Science 2.0. Especially how we can avoid to create new power structures with the same problems and dangers as the old system. I very much liked how you trie to avoid some of these mistakes when organizing the ScienceOnline meeting.
- Martin Fenner
I'll give it a try - it will be a raw draft and I hope commenters and bloggers pick it apart and add more light to the topic.
- Bora Zivkovic
Thanks Bora, I'm looking forward to this.
- Martin Fenner
Excellent, I was having trouble choosing between power relationships and harvester ants; now I don't have to. (Can I have harvester ants next week?)
- Bill Hooker
What are the power structures like if harvester ant colonies? Oh, I know, it depends on what time of day it is.
- Bob O'Hara
The recent JAMA / BMJ episode about disclosing conflicts of interests by paper authors contains material for the power relationship topic: http://blogs.wsj.com/health...
- Martin Fenner
The Google Book settlement. There is a deadline of May 5 for relevant organizations to express opposition
- Adina Levin
Pandas and their influence on culture from Lost to Adventureland to diplomacy between superpowers
- RAPatton
OK, here it is - Web and Power (in science): http://scienceblogs.com/clock... Just a beginning: observing the changes, but not yet having any idea how to prevent a replacement of old power structures by new power structures. Thoughts?
- Bora Zivkovic
There is only one person in the world with sufficient expertise to write about girrafes on unicycles! So, harvester ants next, perhaps during the week, then Dumbar Number next weekend unless something exciting comes up in the meantime....
- Bora Zivkovic
Man has "bathroom emergency" at 32,000 feet and finds the aisle blocked with the beverage cart!! In a panic, he attempts to use the business class lavatory, but is interfered with by a flight attendant. He is now charged with a felony for twisting her arm in order to make it into the bathroom. Is this really the country in which I live?
- Noah Gray
Felony, no, but he does need a smacking. Who assaults a flight attendant? Just piss on the floor instead -- as soon as you whip it out they will let you use the can anyway.
- Bill Hooker
I think his problem was more pressing than simple urination. There was a mention of Honduran food in there somewhere...
- Noah Gray
Instead of grabbing the attendant he should have told her, politely but LOUDLY, of his predicament and asked her to move aside else he shat himself in the aisle where he stood.
- Henry Gee
My way is more fun, but Henry's will keep you out of jail.
- Bill Hooker
I have found that if you pretend to have ebola with blood coming out of everywhere, they will let you use the bathroom in business/first class
- Jonathan Eisen
I should think they'd be more likely to shove you out of the nearest exit door!
- Bill Hooker
Henry is in his Podule reading manuscripts on his ancient Dell Dimension 2300 running IE7. On the other hand, I might use my Dell Inspiron 6400 runningFirefox, or ancient iMac running Safari on OS 10.3.9. Or posibly my Asus Eee. If I reject any, will people blame the system I'm using? If not, why not? They do it if I use my iPhone.
Brilliant, next time I'm rejected from Nature I will complain about the non-transparent process and demand to be rejected via an open-source browser!
- Cameron Neylon