Random Information for a Random World
The term “shell shock” was coined by the soldiers themselves. Symptoms included fatigue, tremor, confusion, nightmares and impaired sight and hearing. It was often diagnosed when a soldier was unable to function and no obvious cause could be identified. Because many of the symptoms were physical, it bore little overt resemblance to the modern diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder.
David Hoffman is a veteran film maker, photographer, and documentarian with a large array of archived content on Youtube. A fire consumed his home in 2008 which destroyed most of his archived footage. This video was an homage trying to repurpose some of that content in some meaningful way.
New Version of footage San Francisco 1906, A Trip Down Market Street, Shot on April 14, 1906, four days before the San Francisco earthquake and fire. From the front of a cable car, a motion picture camera records a trip down Market Street, San Francisco, California, from a point between 8th & 9th Streets, Eastward to the cable car turnaround at the Ferry Building.
Shortly after this was recorded one of the worst earthquakes on record hit the city:
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In 1990 I did interviews with 180 baby boomers talking about their lives during the 1960s for my television series, Making Sense of the Sixties. This is a clip of poet and educator Bill Ehrhart from one of those interviews – a very articulate Vietnam veteran who joined the military with patriotism in his heart.
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This is a classic from an MIT demo conducted in 1979.
This video shows a way to watch YouTube videos on a 40-year old Commodore Pet, at about 30 fps.
Here’s a link to the circuit simulator: https://kretsim.se
In this three-part BBC Horizon documentary physicist and science communicator Jim Al-Khalili takes the viewer on a journey exploring the most important historical developments in electricity and magnetism. This documentary discusses how the physics (and the people behind the physics) changed the world forever.
LandChad.net, a site dedicated to turning internet peasants into Internet Landlords by showing them how to setup websites, email servers, chat servers and everything in between.
Starting a website is something that can be done in a lazy afternoon and costs pocket change.
Most of the internet’s problems could be solved if more people had their own personal platforms, so the objective of this site is to guide any normal person through the process of installing a website.
Brainfuck is a minimal esoteric programming language. It provides a 30K 8-bit array that can be modified with 8 different characters.
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