Defamation: The Movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utVkVQnAY64 related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust_Industry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BruBe3CGapA and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLB8DfhnJD0 – CrossTalks with Norman Finkelstein http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McyF92_LCXo – American radical: The trials of Norman Finkelstein http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30X2tYUGK_8 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUsXt8TmVfU – Noam Chomsky about Israel vs Palestine conflict worth reading/watching despite of.. other political views presented by both Finkelstein and Chomsky.

inside job – documentary about financial crisis

yet another look at financial crisis. too bad they focus on greed and lack of regulation while to dont mention directly fiat money as one of the root causes of the crisis. worth watching anyway.

[pl] braun – eugenika – w imie postepu

grzegorz braun – eugenika – w imie postepu gazwyb pisze: “Życzyłbym sobie jednak, by jej [telewizji zwanej publiczna dla zmylenia przeciwnika] kierownictwo lepiej zadbało o ostateczny kształt powstających za nasze pieniądze dzieł. Film Brauna z pewnością chluby telewizji nie przyniesie”. nie trzeba chyba lepszej reklamy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIOuqzY7u_E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHBpzwq8Cak http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSTXzhAQKVw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmp68vMdNJA via nicek.info

Linux and H/W optimizations for MySQL

good stuff: http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2011/public/schedule/detail/17111 http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/56/Linux%20and%20H_W%20optimizations%20for%20MySQL%20Presentation.pdf

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amen break Video explains the world’s most important 6-sec drum loop good copy, bad copy

The Light Bulb Conspiracy

Documentary on planned obsolescence: http://vimeo.com/41567964 some parts are in French, Spanish, German, but then again there are very helpful Norwegian subtitles. worth seeing anyway.

innodb_stats_sample_pages to save a day

i’ve run into nasty instability in mysql’s query execution plan joining few tables with 10s of millions of rows. mysql 5.1’s innodb_stats_sample_pages seem to solve the problem.