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"TOWER TO THE PEOPLE" - Nikola Tesla Documentary

posted by CoolHand on Friday June 12 2015, @10:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the paying-homage-to-masters-of-science dept.

iWantToKeepAnon writes:

Matthew Inman over at The Oatmeal announced a documentary about Nikola Tesla called Tower to the People.

You may recall that Inman started a crowd funding campaign to save Tesla's Lab. Joseph Sikorski, who donated $33,000 back in 2012, directed the film. The movie is finished, but he's seeking funds to get it distributed and raise awareness about Nikola Tesla and their science center. If you want to support the film, please back the project or share this image.

For more background on Nikola Tesla, check out this entertaining and informative Ted talk.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by CRCulver on Friday June 12 2015, @10:20PM

    by CRCulver (4390) on Friday June 12 2015, @10:20PM (#195548) Homepage
    Inman/The Oatmeal's fascination with Tesla coincided with a significant decline in his cartooning powers, where his jokes went from elaborate to half-hearted. Has his pitch for recognition of Tesla really been about appreciating the science and wanting to do some historical justice to Tesla, or has it been a cynical effort in click-baiting? In the couple of years before Inman got involved, Tesla had already become a craze in certain circles, and a savvy businessman could see that glorifying Tesla would be an easy way to win over an army of Redditors.

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday June 12 2015, @11:03PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday June 12 2015, @11:03PM (#195555) Journal
      Why would the motivation matter in this case?
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      • (Score: 3, Interesting) by CRCulver on Saturday June 13 2015, @12:31AM

        by CRCulver (4390) on Saturday June 13 2015, @12:31AM (#195577) Homepage
        Popular science initiatives carried out for profit reasons and not out of a sincere love and dedication to the science involved, tend to degenerate into vacuous infotainment things that don't leave the audience better informed. Sometimes they leave the audience worse off, because people are given the false confidence that they learned something, when in fact they continue to misunderstand the science and history involved. With a figure as prone to being exaggerated beyond his actual achievements as Tesla, that's a big risk.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday June 12 2015, @11:54PM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Friday June 12 2015, @11:54PM (#195563) Homepage Journal

    Among my reasons for disliking javascript so is not JS itself but that it is commonly implemented incorrectly, for example a hyperlink implemented in javascript does not always do all the same things that a link will do when implemented purely in HTML.

    In this case Soylent's Reply button javascript does not permit me to post a reply in a new tab.

    If I open a contextual menu by clicking a javascript link, I'd like the resulting menu to have the same items, as well as for those items to perform the same function as a contextual menu resulting from an HTML link - even if I don't use any of them. To open a contextual menu that is dramatically different from what I expect is quite jarring mentally.

    Thanks for letting me clear all that up.

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    • (Score: 2) by tibman on Saturday June 13 2015, @05:19AM

      by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Saturday June 13 2015, @05:19AM (#195659)
      The reply button isn't actually any JavaScript at all.  It is a standard HTML form.  Web 1.0 stuff.

        <form action="//soylentnews.org/comments.pl#post_comment">
          <!-- blah stuff ->
          <input name="op" value="Reply" class="button" type="submit">
        </form>

      There is also a hidden input field for sid (whatever that is). 
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      • (Score: 3, Informative) by tibman on Saturday June 13 2015, @05:22AM

        by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Saturday June 13 2015, @05:22AM (#195661)

        Sorry to reply to myself. The reason why right click doesn't bring up the normal context menu is because the Reply button is a form element (only a single part of a form) and not a hyperlink at all.

        The Reply button at the very bottom of the page is however an actual hyperlink with a context menu. You can use that for now on instead of the top Reply button. Not sure why there are two different styles of the same button on the same page?

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        • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday June 13 2015, @09:50AM

          by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday June 13 2015, @09:50AM (#195719) Journal

          Also the "Reply to this" buttons on the bottom of comments are actually links.

          Of course the real question is why browsers don't allow buttons to open in a new tab using middle-click.

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