Category: quotes

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http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/03/how-i-became-a-password-cracker/

“Even insects express anger, terror, jealousy and love by their stridulation” Charles Darwin

“where are here to help others, what the others are here for, I have no idea”

“Beauty and seduction is nature’s tool for survival. Because we will protect what we fall in love with.” Louie Schwartzberg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISmWAyQxqqs

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/ideas-commentary/exclusive-interview-with-the-artists-who-demand-better-working-conditions-at-sony-pictures-imageworks.html

One of most dangerous human’s faults is to think that everything that happens to us is Special… (Krauss)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783

Stages of sleep

Every 60-100 minutes we go through a cycle of four stages of sleep

Stage 1 is a drowsy, relaxed state between being awake and sleeping – breathing slows, muscles relax, heart rate drops

Stage 2 is slightly deeper sleep – you may feel awake and this means that, on many nights, you may be asleep and not know it

Stage 3 and Stage 4, or Deep Sleep – it is very hard to wake up from Deep Sleep because this is when there is the lowest amount of activity in your body

After Deep Sleep, we go back to Stage 2 for a few minutes, and then enter Dream Sleep – also called REM (rapid eye movement) sleep – which, as its name suggests, is when you dream

In a full sleep cycle, a person goes through all the stages of sleep from one to four, then back down through stages three and two, before entering dream sleep Source: Gregg Jacobs

(grantland.com) As I hope I’ve made clear by this point in our Oscar journey, I love awards. I cover them, I handicap them, I tweet them, I do useless math about them, I would happily volunteer to accept them if the actual winners could not attend, and I watch them. On Sunday I got really excited about the complicated, layered irony of Bon Iver winning Best New Artist at the Grammys even though I’m about 80% sure that I don’t know who he is. So when I propose the elimination of an award, please understand that it’s with a heavy heart. That said, when it comes to the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, my strong feeling is, to quote Padma Lakshmi: Please pack your knives and go.

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http://www.ishausa.org/ishakriya/

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/stand-up-while-you-read-this/

http://www.youtube.com/user/bigthink?blend=1&ob=0

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/4-ways-too-much-caffeine-keeps-you-from-realizing-your-bradberry/?trk=eml-email_feed_ecosystem_digest_01-recommended_articles-11-Unknown&midToken=AQGtqVWLIj58UA&fromEmail=fromEmail&ut=3vyvAcqSD8QEw1

http://healthyeatingandwellbeing.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-losing-weight/

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00ksh7c/10_Things_You_Need_to_Know_About_Losing_Weight/

Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Edwin Land, inventor of instant photography

http://www.visualeffectssociety.com/visual-effects-industry-bill-of-rights

The Situation Today The global visual effects industry is in transition. Because visual effects now play a central role in today’s feature films, television programming, animation, video games, commercials and virtually all forms of entertainment, they have become critically important to the entertainment industry.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-roth/the-real-wizards-of-oz-de_b_1166422.html

Visual effects are the true “movie stars” of big studio pictures — they turn today’s movies into box office hits the same way big name actors ensured the success of classic films. In fact, 46 of the 50 top worldwide Box Office films of all time were visual effects-driven. And movies and broadcast programs you wouldn’t think of as visual effects driven routinely utilize “invisible” effects to make changes to hair color, the sky, or to the background of a scene — even creating the entire backlot and sets.

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