Just … wow.

Make sure you watch it full screen.

(Thanks to Mr Gruber for the link)

The BBC’s Richard Black at The International Whaling Commission’s (IWC) annual meeting. The (admittedly tenuous) link to technology is the mention of the The Cove, a soon to be released movie about the habitual killing of dolphins in Japan. The movie was filmed using all sorts of high tech gadgets and techniques and is a film I am looking forward to seeing.

Whether it will have any political impact is much less clear than the obvious emotional impact it is projected to have. Mr Black interviewed the outgoing IWC chairman, Dr William Hogarth (the audio clip embedded in the linked page). The most controversial thing he said:

I’ll probably get in trouble for making this statement but I am properly convinced right now that there would be less whales killed if we didn’t have the commercial morratorium [on whale hunting].