The Mandelbear's Musings

This ad by an Indian jewellery company featuring a trans woman, is a thing of beauty. The BBC news article, India jewellery ad starring trans model wins hearts News, says

The one-minute-40-second video charts the story of transition of a trans woman - an awkward teenager with facial hair and self-doubt who transforms into a beautiful confident bride.

With 22-year-old Meera Singhania Rehani in the lead, the video by Kerala-based jewellery house Bhima depicts the love and acceptance that the protagonist receives from her family - each milestone in her life is celebrated through the gold jewellery they gift her.

Just... go watch it:

(Bhima Jewellery. "Pure as love" - YouTube link in case the embed doesn't work for you.)

This isn't a Songs for Saturday. It's important, it's political, it's inspiring, and you ought to go watch A Message to All Police Officers From Occupy Wall Street, delivered in an extremely powerful speech by an LAPD officer.

Hat tip to pocketnaomi

I don't have all of the OryCon concert online yet -- I'm still waiting for audio to replace what my fat fingers missed. But the video of about half the concert is up on YouTube, and the audio from our songs in the KinderFilk concert is up on Tempered-Glass.info.

The best, I think, is the video of Mina's Song by Zander Nyrond. Unless you're in a tearing hurry, watch the introduction too.

I'll let you know when the rest of the audio makes it up.

Should Google Go Nuclear? Clean, cheap, nuclear power (no, really)

Video of a talk by Robert Bussard (yes, that Bussard, as in Bussard Ramjet) about inertial electrostatic fusion. Links to papers, in pdf, at EMC2 Fusion.

(From EE Times, June 4, 2007. Dead trees have their uses.)