I wonder if they ever call any of these girls.

See also:

• Picking Up Girls Without Speaking
• How to Get Any Girl's Phone Number (clever)

Well this one is the weakest of the pit stop features, but I liked the first three and posted this on the back of liking the others more!

The teams are all so secretive that they would never make the interesting technical discussion that we want... if you take the Sauber cutaway series for example, gearboxes would be an obvious episode to cover, but for contractual reasons they can't show us the inside of their gearbox because it comes from another team! These videos are the best that I can find, but unfortunately most F1 fans will have seen them as filler pieces during the race coverage

I do feel that I have failed in tagging and channel assignment though, can you suggest what I should have put to avoid wasting your time? The more technical ones will always be in the engineering channel, and the less technical ones will be in sports/wheels.

I did post a few which were a little bit more interesting from a technical point of view:

• http://videosift.com/video/RS27-Engine-on-the-dyno-Renault-Sport-F1
  
• http://videosift.com/video/How-to-strip-and-paint-an-F1-car-Caterham-Unchained-ep-4
  
• http://videosift.com/video/Understanding-Aerodynamics-A-brief-lesson-by-Mike-Gascoyne
  
• http://videosift.com/video/Adrian-Newey-Drives-RB6-And-Leyton-House-March-Silverstone
  

*discard

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I believed the vimeo tags, which are:

• clip
  
• film
  
• animation
  
• pitt ocha
  
• citron bien
  
• les ogres de barback
  
• 2D
  
• character design
  
• illustration
  
• musique du monde
  
• music video
  
• stop motion
  
• video
  
• art
  
• cool music video
  
• creative video
  
• drôme
  
• ardèche
  

I've taken stop motion out of the tags and description.

The pictures linked from the vimeo page are quite cool, and show some of the cells used in the overlay animation as well as some images from the film.

Sääli


(Is that right?)

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Hmm... now you've made me curious too. I have found a few interesting pages, but nothing specifically about frog vision apart from mentions that it's sensitive.

• How Stuff Works has a How frogs work article.
  
• The Whole Frog Project provides a virtual frog for high school biology students, based on MRI data, mechanical sectioning, and some software to allow visualising of the anatomical structures of the intact animal.
  
• The UW Sea grant site has a frogs page with resources for kids + teachers that has an origami frog (among other things).
  

I'm not quite as sure about the single photon claim. I found a Physicsworld.com article from September 2012 talking about using a single rod cell from a frog eye being used as an extremely sensitive detector which is able to detect a single photon, but according to the original Usenet Physics FAQ (I cite an updated version hosted at math.ucr.edu) human retinas can also respond to a single photon, but have a neural filter to block the signal unless 5 to 9 photons arrive within less than 100 ms.

References

Julie Schnapf, "How Photoreceptors Respond to Light", Scientific American, April 1987

S. Hecht, S. Schlaer and M.H. Pirenne, "Energy, Quanta and vision." Journal of the Optical Society of America, 38, 196-208 (1942)

D.A. Baylor, T.D. Lamb, K.W. Yau, "Response of retinal rods to single photons." Journal of Physiology, Lond. 288, 613-634 (1979)

Not sure if he's knocking on the door or trying to kick it down, Chun Li Lightning Kick style

You are not going blind, there is no visible marker for "blocked" at this moment.

I guess it's supposed to be displayed in line with "nsfw" and "long/short", but there's no code for it, as far as I can see.

Video tagged as nsfw+long:
<ul class="notes"><li class="yellow">long</li><li class="red">nsfw</li></ul>

Video tagged as blocked:
<ul class="notes"></ul>

Nothing there. Might be a case for the almighty @lucky760

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Tune of hers I dig is called, "Get Some"...check it out!
http://videosift.com/video/I-m-Your-Prostitute-You-Are-Going-To-Get-Some-Lykke-Li

Usually no one reads comments this far down, but I'd like for the pro-gun people to weigh in on these six specific policies, and see if maybe they still sound like reasonable policies to you guys. (Borrowing entirely from here)

1. Ban people on the terrorist watch list from legally buying guns.
   
2. Require background checks on every gun sale.
   
3. Ratify the UN Arms Treaty to tamp down on gun trafficking from the U.S. to Mexico.
   
4. Allow the public to access the FBI's database of guns used in Federal crimes.
   
5. Ban guns in bars.
   
6. Allow any business to legally bar people from bringing in firearms.
   

To add a couple of my own, how about we also set a maximum legal muzzle velocity, maximum rate of fire, and maximum magazine capacity on civilian firearms.

Some very old (and stripped down) notes I have, from a beginners course I used to teach on web graphics and image formats. (it does loose a little something in translation with the limited formatting we can use here).

GIF: (Graphics Interchange Format)
Limited to 256 colors and less.
Recommended - 72 dpi.
8-bit color planes


Originally designed by Compuserve. June 1987

It used a compression scheme called LZW.
Gif utilizes a compression method which uses a particular algorithm. This algorithm is copyrighted by Unisys. Any software which supports the format must obtain the rights to use the format but all users are free to use it.
Because of this issue..., a new format called PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is slowly infiltrating, and is expected to eventually replace the GIF.


How it compresses...

1. It compresses repeated patterns of pixels in an image.
   
2. The more repeated patterns there are in an image, the more it can be compressed. When the image is decompressed it is
   exactly the same as the original image.
   
3. Example:
   
   If the code looks like this - (@ 42-bytes)
   1 5 6 4 6 7 9 1 2 5 6 9 8 4 5 8 9 2 5 6 9 8 5 6 7 2 5 6 9 6 1 5 6 4 6 7 9 7 8 2 5 6
   
   The conversion looks for repeating strings of more than 3 numbers -
   1 5 6 4 6 7 9 1 2 5 6 9 8 4 5 8 9 2 5 6 9 8 5 6 7 2 5 6 9 6 1 5 6 4 6 7 9 7 8 2 5 6
   
   It then replaces the strings with a "token". It refers to which number it repeats and for how many characters -
   1 5 6 4 6 7 9 1 2 5 6 9 8 4 5 8 9 [9,5] 5 6 7 [9,4] 6 [1,7] 7 8 [9,3]
   
   
4. Each "token" takes 2 bytes. having eliminated several repeating characters, our code is now only 31-bytes
   

Points to note:

• GIF uses Lossless, Pattern Matching Compression
  
• It compresses repeated patterns of pixels in an image.
  
• The more repeated patterns there are in an image, the more it can be compressed.
  
• When the image is decompressed it is exactly the same as the original image
  

Summary:
When you convert images to the GIF format you first must reduce the number of colors to 256 or less, (this process looses information). The fewer the colors, the smaller the file. But when the image is compressed, no image detail is lost.

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The simpler the question, the more complex the answer:
I'll try to respectfully answer your "Why hasn't Obama changed the IRS rules in the past 4 years?" without stating my personal opinion or disagreeing with you.

Obama had 2 years of Democratic controlled congress. That's true; however, one can't stop just there. One would have to look at the bills on an individual basis; It's all on the internet!

If people paid attention to voting patterns of congress, they'd find out that many Democrats and Republicans don't always vote along their party line. This is a little more prevalent in the Democratic circle, but just within the margin of error. Please don't assume that just because a new IRS bill comes out, all Democrats are going to jump on it, thus applying anything Obama says. It just doesn't work that way!

How can a Democratic-controlled congress reject bills you say? What better site to see the marbling of party-line votes other than the official Senate website itself:
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/vote_menu_111_1.htm

Pick any bill that's "rejected" and see why it happened.

>> ^lantern53:

Doesn't Romney pay by the rules set up by Congress and the IRS? Doesn't Obama? Don't we all?
If it isn't fair, who set it up that way? Congress makes the laws. Romney has never been a member of Congress...Obama, on the other hand, has.
Why hasn't Obama changed the IRS rules in the past 4 years?