Video: A Green Flash Over Italy

APOD: 2007 January 29 – Movie: A Green Flash Over Italy
Difficult to observe, the momentary green flash above the rising or setting sun has been documented as a phenomenon caused by the atmospheric bending or refraction of sunlight. Like a weak prism, the Earth’s atmosphere breaks white sunlight into colors, bending red colors slightly and green and blue colors through increasingly larger angles. When the sky is clear, a green flash just above the sun’s edge can sometimes be seen for a second or so, when the sun is close to a distant horizon. Still, from a site atop Mt. Autore (altitude 1,850 meters) in Italy astrophotographer Danilo Pivato captured this dramatic green flash movie. The time between frames varies from over one minute in the beginning to about one second as the flash becomes visible. Click on picture for movie. Also check out this other post about the elusive green Flash.

“Dispatches: Undercover Mosque”

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: “Dispatches: Undercover Mosque”; Update: Part 2 added; Update: Part 3 added

After seeing these hidden camera videos shot by UK Channel 4, you will understand why British Muslims are considered by the Zogby Poll to be the most radicalized in Europe and why “assimilation” is their greatest fear.

“This video has been removed at the request of copyright owner Hardcash Productions Ltd. because its content was used without permission”

Trailer Park Millionaires

Most residents make sale toast of the town
The vote:Residentschose to accept a $510 million offer from Boca Raton-based Ocean Land Investments for the 488-unit mobile home park.

The plans: Ocean Land envisions condos, townhomes, a hotel, retail and commercial space, restaurants and parks.

The process: Ocean Land must get state and local approval, including input from neighboring towns, which have said they will consider legal challenges.

The payoff: Residents split $500 million, at $31,700 a share. While the average is about $1 million a unit, some will be paid more and some less.

Residents vote to sell oceanfront town for $510M.
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LiveLeak.com – Redefining the Media

LiveLeak.com – Redefining the Media
Welcome to LiveLeak.com. Ogrish.com has been incorporated into Liveleak to ensure you get all the uncensored media you are used to along with so much more.

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If you weren’t familiar with Ogrish.com, it was the notorious web-site hosting grisly Arab TV news coverage and other gory accident & war videos. This is not for the squeamish, faint-of-heart or easily offended. Click on this picture “eaten alive” for an example of what is in store for you.

Or see a video of stoning an adulterer to death.

Or popular Chinese Torture methods.

Or 16th Century French sport of Cat Burning 

The Internet TV charts track the most popular videos from the leading internet TV sites All the best online video clips, on one page.

Eddie Vedder and Laird Hamilton in Maui

Part of a documentary of Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam visiting in Maui with Laird Hamilton, big-wave waterman extraordinaire. Thanks to Randy Marks for forwarding this video of 2 innovators. The Sundance Channel is showing this and has a link to a clip on the bottom-right of this linked page.

DVD players finally outnumber VCRs

DVD players finally outnumber VCRs
Although DVD players dropped below the magic $100 barrier some time ago, they have only just caught up with the VCR, according to Nielsen. The media tracking firm says that DVD player ownership has finally surpassed VCR ownership for the first time.

During the third quarter of 2006, 81.2 percent of all US households reported owning at least one DVD player compared to 79.2 percent for VCRs. That figure marks a 6 percent increase in DVD player ownership from the same period in 2005, while VCRs ownership fell. It’s a far cry from 1999, when Nielsen first began tracking DVD ownership. At the end of the 90s, only 6.7 percent of households owned a DVD player, compared with 88.6 percent owning VCRs.