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New Orleans native Frank Relle captures stunning shots of his hometown late at night using long-exposure photography. The images show often overgrown and sometimes destroyed buildings devoid of human life.

I decided to pursue photography. I went to New York to find photography, but lost it in the bright lights and darkrooms. I came home to New Orleans and listened to Bob French’s voice on WWOZ.

photos by Frank Relle

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When YouTuber Stegmeier53 noticed a snipe crossing the street a few years ago, he stopped to take a picture. It soon became apparent that the bird was grooving to the music from his car…

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VirtualBox is our favorite virtualization program , but usually, it needs to be properly installed with Windows kernel drivers and system services. Portable VirtualBox lets you install VirtualBox on a USB drive or external hard drive and run your virtual machines anywhere.

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In science it often happens that scientists say, ‘You know, that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,’ and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn’t happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

– Carl Sagan, in a 1987 address, quoted in Jon Fripp et al., Speaking of Science, 2000

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Fanfilm producer Broad Strokes has mashed up the audio track from the latest Godzilla trailer with footage from the original 1954 Godzilla. The result is the lamenting of a very nervous Bryan Cranston laid over some black and white footage of Tokyoites fleeing for their lives and, fittingly, only a brief, largely unidentifiable cameo from the monster itself.

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You’ll be able to see the first teaser trailer for Fox’s Batman prequel show Gotham in HD tonight during the premiere of 24: Live Another Day. (Or have just seen it, depending on your time zone.) But for now, you can see the Gotham teaser trailer below. It introduces Ben McKenzie as a young James Gordon — and introduces Gordon to a much younger Bruce Wayne, on the night his parents are killed. There are also flashes of some of villains such as Riddler, the Penguin, Catwoman, and Poison Ivy, as well as what appears to be a brief shot of Jada Pinkett Smith as the new character Fish Mooney.

Watch the teaser below. (Update: Fox has released an extended version of the trailer that runs a full two minutes. We’ve got that below, too. It’s the second embed in line.)

So this series starts off with Gordon investigating the deaths of Bruce Wayne’s parents. It’s the obvious way to bring them together, of course, and therefore a logical, if very well-worn starting point for the show. What comes next will be more interesting as we see what series creator Bruno Heller has cooked up to keep our eye on a Gotham City with no Batman.

Here’s the original trailer:

Here’s the extended trailer:

We’ll have Gotham premiere info when it becomes available. EW has the teaser.

• Batman Prequel Show ‘Gotham’ Given Series Order; Trailer Premieres Tonight
• ‘Gotham’: The Riddler Cast as Pilot Episode Guest Star
• ‘Gotham’ Photo: Ben McKenzie as Commissioner Gordon
• ‘Gotham’: See Robin Lord Taylor as the Penguin
• Superhero Bits: Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Deathlok, Fantastic Four, Spider-Man
• ‘Gotham’ Photo: Sean Pertwee as Alfred Pennyworth

The post ‘Gotham’ Trailer: James Gordon Meets a Very Young Bruce Wayne [Updated] appeared first on /Film.

Fox has revealed its first full promo for the upcoming proto-Batman series, set to show the early years of the Caped Crusader.

Gotham is set during the formative years of Bruce Wayne, following the murder of his parents, and will touch upon other infamous residents of the city before their brushes with the law. The first full length story trailer for the show is sure to whet the appetites of fans left wanting more urban crimefighting in the wake of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight cinematic trilogy, and sets an appropriately gritty air for the series.

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Danish writer/artist duo Mikael Wulff and Anders Morgenthaler create comedy cartoons and graphs depicting our everyday struggles and irritations. Official-looking graphs show unofficial statistics from our daily lives that are at once unexpected and glaringly obvious.
Their satirical creations are published on Wumo, their webcomic and newspaper cartoon strip.

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According to Rollercoaster Tycoon, this is what two thousand people drowning at once looks like.

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It’s always odd to hear people say RSS is dead. The fact is, RSS is easily the most successful stealth, insurgent technology on the web. It is pervasive and is the engine for much of the Internet.

Apple uses it to syndicate computer updates. Your podcast subscriptions rely on RSS. Every Wordpress blog is RSS enabled and every major news site is broadcasting via RSS. They’re all syndicated. They all have an RSS feed. It’s the background hum of the Internet.

There are millions of feeds out there, continually connecting users to their favorite content. Just about everything online except Facebook and Twitter is available via RSS.

Even more importantly, RSS has proven to be resilient and durable regardless of what corporate interests want to do with it. Netscape invented the underlying code in the late 90’s, and then took away all documentation and support in 2001 after AOL bought them out. But even that didn’t slow the dissemination. 

And then last year, the biggest player on the Internet took its ball and went home when Google killed its Reader. Despite the fact that Google retired the most popular RSS application on the Net, it did not affect RSS in any appreciable way. All of those feeds are still available and users are still getting their content delivered exactly as they want it. What greater proof is there of the resiliency of RSS?

In fact, what might have seemed like a disaster at first is perhaps the best thing that could happen to the technology. Remember, RSS is a technology and a service; it is not a product. AOL thought they could squash this great idea, but a community of developers took the idea and ran. Then Google thought they could abandon the technology and assumed everyone would gravitate to their social networks instead.

In fact, any number of companies can go out of business, but nobody can stop anybody from publishing and reading RSS feeds. 

However, just because a technology is widely available does not guarantee success. What makes RSS truly powerful is that users still have the control. The beauty of the system is it that no one can force you to be tracked and no one can force you to watch ads. There are no security issues I am aware of and no one ever has to know what feeds you subscribe to. This may be the last area of the Internet that you can still say things like this.

Google Reader was a monopolist product built on an anti-monopolist technology. Now that they’re gone, RSS is once again anyone’s game. You’re going to see a lot more innovation and new stuff for RSS. I never know if its supposed to be a blessing or a curse to live in interesting times. But I have to believe this RSS is entering maybe the most interesting time in its long history.

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Thanks to reader Sarah for suggesting the topic of exams! Here are more educational chickens.

Jordan Weissmann explains why this chart, from Annie Lowrey’s latest look (NYT) at the lives of the American poor, is so scary:

Prices are rising on the very things that are essential for climbing out of poverty.

A college education has become a necessary passport to financial stability. It’s hard to hold a job if you’re chronically ill. Working full-time is difficult if you can’t pay somebody to watch your child. While a high-definition television is nice, it won’t permanently improve your circumstances. And psychology has told us that the stress of financial instability, of not knowing whether you’ll be able to pay your next bill or get enough hours at work, is part of what makes poverty such a horrible experience. Humans also tend to judge their experiences relative to their immediate surroundings, so the fact that the poor are materially better off than during the Carter era doesn’t offer them much personal solace.

Derek Thompson points out another important distinction:

When you look at the items in red with falling prices, they largely reflect industries whose jobs are easily off-shored and automated. The secret to cutting prices (over-generalizing only slightly here) is basically to replace American workers. If you can replace U.S. labor with foreign workers and robots, you’re paying less to make the same thing. Look back at the items toward the bottom of the graph. Our clothes come from Cambodia. Our toys come from China. Meanwhile, Korea, a world-leader in electronics and auto manufacturing, has the highest industrial robot density in the world. Cheap things aren’t made by American humans.

Now consider education, health, and childcare, the blue sectors above where prices are rising considerably faster than average. These are service industries that employ local workers. They are not, to use the economic term, “tradable.”

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This week we have five newcomers in our chart.

RoboCop is the most downloaded movie this week.

The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are BD/DVDrips unless stated otherwise.

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