Just viewed a Spike Lee Joint with a different director
called "CSA: The Confederate States Of America." It's a
mock documentary done in the style of Ken Burns which
postulates an America in which the South won the Civil War
and slavery continues into modern day.

I had a torrent of this, but you have to see the original
dvd. The director's commentary track is as good if not
better than the film itself. He shows how he used
historical reversal, photographic and other artifacts to
create the film.

• CSA: The Confederate States of America

It's definitive as near as I can tell but, after about 1/2 way,
they still haven't gott en into the Martial law issue and the
private contractors from Blackwater and other thug outfits.

All the officials at the city and state level plus some federal
get to explain their side of it in a pretty neutral manner.

On this anniversary of Katrina, The yes men appeared as
representatives of HUD at a meeting with Nagin and some others.

If you don't know who the Yes Men are, they do impersonations of
government and corporate officials and appear at functions
as "Suits" with new inventions or announcements of policy.

In the case of Katrina and as representatives of HUD, they
said that the plan to demolish usable housing would be changed
to _building_ several new health facilities. I'm hoping
to see some video of that.

• The Yes Men on dvd

Eventually HBO will release it as dvd.

I got the film on torrents which is pretty simple to do.

Bittorrent file sharing is something that is not really new
but it's better understood in the world market. By this I mean
that places like Germany are further along on doing things like
video capture.

A capture card was given to me and so I'm learning how to use that.

It's more complicated than finding the big red button that says
'record' because a certain amount of video theory has to be understood.

My goal with that is to archive a documentary from vhs
on an .avi file which can then be uploaded as a torrent.
The vhs tape is not of good quality and needs some tweaking.

Uploading files as torrents has me mystified yet.

Below is a link to a presentation from Australia on
Bittorrent.

• The Future of Bittorrent