Delicious LiveJournal Links for 2-24-2010

[andrewducker]

• Action movies are the best kind of movie: Mathematical proof
  (tags: movies mathematics chaos)
• YouTube removes original "Rickroll" video due to terms of use violation
  (tags: youtube rickroll funny EpicFail copyright music)
• On Writing Long When Attempting to Write Short - an editor talks about short stories.
  (tags: writing scifi stories short_story)
• People who think they're moral are more prone to rationalising their immoral actions
  (tags: psychology morality)

Comments

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

That youtube link triggers a code-injection warning.

[andrewducker]

At what point? I can open the neowin site without any warnings at all.

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

The page starts to open, then my security software comes up with a message that Google Chrome is trying to inject code. Odd, because I'm using IE.

[andrewducker]

Interesting. Could you give me the exact message? I wonder if Google is trying to do something with Google Frame and YouTube.

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

[andrewducker]

Looks like Google Frame is trying to run:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome_Frame

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

Does anybody actually use Google Wave?

[andrewducker]

It's actually really useful if you want to create a living document. You can have the conversation, edit it into shape and it's there to point other people at later.

But that's only handy if you need to have a conversation _about_ something that you want to be available later. I'd love to be able to use it in the office, but that's not going to happen any time soon :->

[broin.livejournal.com]

Yes, lots. Really useful for collaborative writing, especially when you need to insert chats or editorial comments into the text.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

What's the "1/f fluctuation"?

[andrewducker]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1/f_noise

[simont]

I found that, but it still wasn't clear what property of a film they were comparing to it. They said "shot rhythm", which would make me think the obvious guess was that if you split the film up into individual shots you'd find that shots of a given length occurred in inverse proportion to that length (though it's unclear whether that would be counting by number or by total length, which makes quite a difference!) – but that's got relatively little to do with 1/f noise that I can see.

[andrewducker]

Sadly, I can't find any detail which explains what they're actually going on about. Especially as Google searches for 1/f are less than entirely useful.

[luckylove.livejournal.com]

The Rickroll video is back. Apparentely the removal was a mistake.