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HOME Project
Nov 18th
HOME is a 90-minute documentary about climate change by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. The main message is that humanity has less than a decade to change our ways of living. Unlike Inconvenient Truth, it’s a bit light on data, focusing instead on gathering attention and emotional impact. Nevertheless, it’s a really great piece on where humanity is going. The documentary is free on youtube.
Even if you don’t really warm up to the idea of climate change, this film is loaded with magnificent landscapes from all over the world so it won’t be a waste of time even if you don’t believe in anything. Some of the scenes look so surreal that I can’t help but wonder if they’re CG, but they’re all real.
As for myself, I agree that our current ways are unsustainable, but giving up meat to eat grain or rolling back the economy to the stone age isn’t the answer. Not that the film explicitly suggests that and it’s also light in the suggestions department, but the overall tone seems to imply it. I think switching to non-fossil energy (such as nuclear or geothermal) and population control are the real ways for humanity to go forward. That, and we go to space as soon as possible.
By the way, if you fall asleep while watching this, don’t worry it’s normal. Just wake up and resume watching from where you left off. :-)
Showing Camera Manufacturer EXIF on WordPress
Nov 9th
For a while I was wondering why the EXIF section of my theme shows only the camera model and not the manufacturer. For example, a “Nikon E5200″ shows up only as “E5200″. Then I found out that WordPress itself somehow imports only the model number into the database and not the maker. Considering my modest programming knowledge I knew this wasn’t going to be easy.
But I really wanted that manufacturer to show up. More >
