2009'da en çok tıklanan youtube videoları

What You Watched and Searched for on YouTube in 2009

This year has been the biggest yet for online video, and for the first time we're sharing our official Most Watched lists and some of the fastest-rising search terms on YouTube. Some moments were big (President Obama's inauguration), some small (a Minnesota wedding party erupts into dance), some expected ("New Moon"), some surprising (Susan Boyle) — but all of them inspired, entertained and connected millions of people around the world via YouTube.

For these lists, we looked at view counts of YouTube's most popular videos this year (in some instances we aggregated views across multiple versions of the same video):

Most Watched YouTube videos (Global):
1. Susan Boyle - Britain's Got Talent (120+ million views)
2. David After Dentist (37+ million views)
3. JK Wedding Entrance Dance (33+ million views)
4. New Moon Movie Trailer (31+ million views)
5. Evian Roller Babies (27+ million views)

Most Watched music videos on YouTube (Global)*:
1. Pitbull "I Know You Want Me" (82+ million views)
2. Miley Cyrus "The Climb" (64+ million views)
3. Miley Cyrus "Party in the U.S.A." (54+ million views)
4. The Lonely Island "I'm On a Boat" (48+ million views)
5. Keri Hilson "Knock You Down" (35+ million views)

Hz. Yusuf'la yataktaki Meryem Ana kızdırdı

St. Matthew Anglikan Kilisesi'nin dağıttığı, Meryem Ana'yı Hz. Yusuf'la yatakta çıplak gösteren afişler, Yeni Zelanda'daki muhafazakâr Hıristiyanların tepkisini çekti.

Kilisenin önüne asılan afişin üstü saatler geçmeden boyayla karalandı. Afişte aynı yatakta uzanmış, üzgün, hatta biraz tatminsiz bakışlarla resmedilmiş Yusuf’un yanında cennete doğru bakan Meryem Ana yer alıyor. Üstteyse “Zavallı Yusuf. Tanrı’nın izinden gitmek zor iştir” yazıyor. Kilisenin başrahibi Archdeacon Glynn Cardy, afişin İsa hakkındaki klişelere meydan okuma anlamını taşıdığını, ilahi güçle hamile kalan Meryem Ana hakkındaki İncil yorumlarına karşı çıktığını belirtiyor. Afişin bu yorumlara meydan okuyarak Noel öncesi inançsızları kiliseye döndürmek için yapıldığını söyleyen Cardy, “Amacımız gökyüzünde var olan ve Meryem Ana’yı bir şekilde hamile bırakan erkek Tanrı inancını hicvetmekti” diyor.

Auckland piskoposluk bölgesi afişi ‘saygısız’ ve ‘incitici’ olarak nitelendirirken kiliseye şikâyet kadar tebrik telefonu da geldiği söyleniyor.

Semi-nude Mary and Joseph spark outrage in New Zealand

Anglican church defends Christmas billboard campaign showing couple in bed together

A billboard showing Mary and Jospeh under the bedsheets has outraged some New Zealanders. Photograph: www.stmatthews.org.nz

A New Zealand church has sparked outrage by erecting a billboard depicting Mary and Joseph lying semi-nude beneath the sheets.

In an unorthodox take on the Christmas tale, the billboard depicts a forlorn Joseph and Mary looking to the sky with a caption which reads: "Poor Joseph. God is a hard act to follow."

The St Matthew-in-the-City church said it wanted to inspire people to talk about the Christmas story.

But within five hours of the billboard going up in downtown Auckland a man was standing on his car roof painting over the raunchy image.

Archdeacon Glynn Cardy said the church meant to challenge a fundamentalist interpretation of Christ's birth.

"What we're trying to do is to get people to think more about what Christmas is all about. Is it about a spiritual male God sending down sperm so a child would be born, or is it about the power of love in our midst as seen in Jesus?"

Cardy said one person had threatened to tear down the billboard but that of the 20 odd emails and phone calls he had received "about 50% said they loved it, and about 50% said it was terribly offensive".

The Catholic church joined those on the attack, accusing the Anglican church of disrespect.

"It's flying in the face of our 2,000-year-old beliefs," a Catholic church spokesman, Lyndsay Freer, said.

The conservative Family First organisation said the Anglican church could debate the Bible story away from the public eye. "To confront children and families with the concept as a street billboard is completely irresponsible and unnecessary," Family First's national director, Bob McCoskrie, said.

A complaint has been lodged with New Zealand's advertising watchdog, the Advertising Authority, but Cardy was unrepentant.

"I don't see why one person's protest should deny other people the enjoyment of the billboard."

Semizotu [Purslane]

Semizotu [Purslane], originally uploaded by shutterbug_iconium.

The other day I bought a little purslane at the market. It brought back the childhood memories. When I was a kid in my hometown [http://www.flickr.com/photos/shutterbug_iconium/3671877173/] this plant would just grow naturally. We would never try to make any efforts for the growth of this plant we call "semizotu" in Turkish. There would be so many of them among the pepper,tomatoes and cucumbers my mother used to raise so we would treat it like some couch grass and uproot them. In the days of the trappings of modern life we pay for every simple thing:(
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Şu semizotuna,yerelmasına,tereye,ekşikulağa,rokaya para vermek. Insan geriye dönüp baktığında yahu bunlar bahçemizde öylesine çok yetişir öylesine bol olurdu ki bunlara para vereceğin aklına gelir miydi o gün.Modern yaşam,şehir hayatı....üretimden soyutlanmış,köylerini terk etmiş,genetiği değiştirilmiş ürünleri tartışan bir ülke.Semizotu bizim bahçemizde öylesine bol olur,kendiliğinden biterdi.Bazen öyle çok olurdu ki domatesin biberin yetişmesine engel olur biz de onlara ayrıkotu muamelesi yapar kökünden söker atardık.Geçen gün bir arkadaşıma yahu sen nasıl "pıransa" (biz öyle derdik köyde) gömülür hiç bilir misin? diye sordum öyle aval aval bakınca yahu ne çok yaşadık biz diye düşündüm. Televizyonda tek kanalın olduğu,telefonun köyümüze gelişini dün gibi hatırladığım,adı dağ olan ama kendisi tepeden büyük olmayan "Karadağ"da üzerliklerin arasında oynanan saklambaçlar...Ne internet,ne telefon ne de TV vardi doğru düzgün ama biz gene de sıkılmazdık. Şimdiki çocuklar sanal alemde oyun karakterleri büyütüp yetiştirip satıyorlar değil mi?Muhtemeldir ki onlar da çocuklarına "yahu biz neydik çocukken" diyecekler ama neyse...

Welcome to Dongmakgol (2005)

Welcome to Dongmakgol (2005)

Image via Wikipedia

At another time,at another place we would have more fun..., 20 December 2009

* This comment may contain spoilers *

Dongmakgol is an amazingly verdant,pristine village where a US navy pilot Neil Smith(Steve Taschler) crash-lands when his plane gets caught in a surreal butterfly storm.The village which is totally incognizant of the Korean conflict warmly welcomes the foreigner. Since no villager except the village teacher can speak any English they just try to communicate with him in their own language. At one moment the teacher asks hims "How are you?" but when Smith answers him "How do you think I am? I feel like sh*t?" so the teacher gets disillusioned with the answer because the normal correct American answer should "I am fine, and you?" :) The village looks like a calm and serene place where time stands still. The villagers have no knowledge of all the fancy trappings of modern life,technology or merely guns and weapons. Their life goes on simply and placidly till two groups of Korean soldiers (North Korean and South Korean)ends way up there. The North Korean soldiers, Rhee Soo-hwa (Jeong Jae-yeong), Chang Young-hee (Lim Ha-ryong)and the two South Korean soldiers Pyo Hyun-chul (Shin Ha-kyun) and Moon Sang-sang (Seo Jae-kyung)destroy the storage of the village in their armed clash.Apparently one of them just throws the hand grenade assuming that it's been just a "dud". The two groups of soldiers are now bound to work together in the fields to fill the storage of the village and they will actually rub off on each other somehow. The movie sounds like a surreal piece of flick sometimes. For instance, at one moment they kill one of the wild boars in a transcendent work-together. At another moment the corns blown out of the stockpile of the village falls down on the village like a pop-corn. There are some interesting characters in the movie too even if they may sound and look stereotyped sometimes they are sweet and rich characters--like the village chief and the crazy girl Yeo-il (Kang Hye-jeong.) Welcome to Dongmakgol may sound like a "platitudinous" movie for some. It may even sound "cheesy" at some points but it's indeed one sweet anti-war movie!

Oğlu ölürken o Twitter'a mesaj yazdı

Oğlunun havuzda öldüğünü görünce sağlık ekiplerini çağırmaktansa sosyal paylaşım sitesi Twitter'a mesaj gönderen anne eleştirilerin hedefi oldu.

İlişkili fotoğrafları göster

Shellie Ross'un, oğlu evlerinin havuzunda boğulurken sosyal paylaşım sitesi Twitter'da mesaj yazması tepki çekti.

30'lu yaşlarda olan Ross, iki yaşındaki oğlu Bryson'ın yüzüstü bir şekilde havuzda yüzdüğünü görünce Twitter'a mesaj gönderdi. Ross sağlık ekipleri oğlunu kurtarmaya çalışırken Twitter'a "Lütfen hiç etmemiş gibi dua edin, iki yaşındaki oğlum havuza düştü" yazdı.

Beş saat sonra Bryson'ın boğularak öldüğü açıklandı. Ross bu sefer de "Kıymetli oğlumu hatırlıyorum" yazdı. Bununla da yetinmeyen Ross, siteye oğlunun fotoğraflarını yükledi. İşte o zaman öfkeli kullanıcıların hedefi oldu.

Mom Shellie Ross' Tweet About Son's Death Sparks Debate Over Use of Twitter During Tragedy

Mommy Bloggers Defend Ross' Tweet, Saying Online Community Is a Support System

By EMILY FRIEDMAN

Dec. 16, 2009 —

Amid tweets about the weather and her pets, mommy blogger Shellie Ross shocked many of her 5,000 followers with a message on Twitter they weren't expecting to read.

"Fog is rolling in thick scared the birds back in the coop," Ross tweeted at 5:22 p.m. on Monday.

At 5:23 p.m., her son called 911 to report that his brother, 2-year-old Bryson, was floating unconscious in the pool. Records show that the Brevard County Fire-Rescue paramedics arrived at Ross' Mirrett Island, Fla., home at 5:38 p.m.

And 34 minutes later, at 6:12 p.m., Ross tweeted again. "Please pray like never before, my 2 yr old fell in the pool."

Nearly five hours later, after her son had been pronounced dead, Ross tweeted again.

"Remembering my million dollar baby," she wrote. Ross included a photo of Bryson in the post, time-stamped at 11:08 p.m. A few minutes later, she posted another photo of her son.

The Brevard County Sheriff's office told ABCNews.com that Ross' 11-year-old son called 911 after they discovered the toddler's body floating the pool. According to Public Information Officer Lt. Bruce Barnett, the mother and older son had been cleaning out a chicken coop while the toddler was playing in the backyard.

Ross had asked her older son to turn off a hose inside the pool enclosure, and the gate behind him evidently did not close properly, said Barnett.

"When [Ross] finished cleaning she went inside and was looking for the 2-year-old, who she thought was with her 11-year-old, and wasn't able to find him and started to panic," he said. "That's when she found him floating."

Barnett said that Ross estimated her son was in the pool for "maybe five minutes," and performed CPR on her son for the duration of the nine-minute 911 call.

Another officer working on the case told ABCNews.com that they are aware of the mother's Twitter account and are looking into it, but declined to say more, citing the open case.

Reached by telephone at her Florida home, Ross told ABCNews.com, "Nobody has a right to question" why she tweeted.

"I didn't tweet-by-tweet the accident," she added.

Shellie Ross Criticized by Some For Tweeting Son's Death

Ross' public announcement of her son's death prompted both sympathy and anger from fellow bloggers and Twitter users, many of whom were so taken aback by the shocking announcement that they questioned the validity of her tweet.

Madison McGraw was one of the bloggers who reached out via Twitter to several news organizations asking them to verify the boy's death so she would know it wasn't a hoax. "Hope no one is sending donations w/o verifying," McGraw tweeted.

In response to her critics, Ross said, "Anybody who is attacking me on Twitter is a small-minded a**hole who deserves to rot in hell."

"People who are attacking me are just trying to drive attention to their blogs," she added.

Lisa Neal Gualtieri, an adjunct clinical professor of the health communication program at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston and an expert in social media and public health, said that for some, social networks become their "entire support networks."

"Many people become closer to the people who they use Facebook and Twitter with than they do with their friends and neighbors," said Gualtieri. "And many people even use social media as their primary way of connecting with their friends."

"But, it's hard to understand under the circumstances how somebody could, in such a devastating situation, sit at their computer or phone and type," she said. "It's not so much that she used Twitter to reach out or that she was doing a very ordinary activity at such an extraordinary time."

Ross, who tweeted under the moniker "Military_mom," was a prominent mommy blogger on the site Momdot.com. Her friends there had already begun organizing a central place for cards and donations to be sent just minutes after she sent the first tweet announcing the death.

The furor over Ross' tweets has been felt even by those who were critical of her.

McGraw told ABCNews.com that she is receiving threats on her Twitter account by other bloggers who are saying she should be "beat up" for questioning Ross' story.

"The first thing I thought when I saw the tweet was that it was very sad," said McGraw. "But then I thought, 'Who would tweet that her son just drowned?' I couldn't believe it."

"I looked at news stations and couldn't find anything and I hoped it wasn't just another scam," she said. "I asked for verification, and boy did that get me in trouble."

McGraw said that as a former paramedic who has three children of her own, she found it shocking that a mother who had just lost a child could be composed enough to tweet about the incident.

"I've seen people react [to a death], but they're screaming their heads off, crying and they don't know what to do," she said. "They're not on Twitter. I've never seen that before and I was just shocked."

"I think she was very entrenched in Twitter," said McGraw. "And I think maybe her whole life seemed to revolve around social media and now this is a great lesson for all of us."

Ross sent a tweet to McGraw Tuesday morning asking where her heart is.

Mom Bloggers Defend Use of Twitter During Tragedy

Trisha Haas, another mom blogger who founded the site Momdot.com where Ross was an administrator and worked on the public relations team, said that it was not unusual for Ross to want her online community of friends to know what was going on.

"She twitters a lot and was very good close friends with people in the [blogging] community," said Haas, who also knows Ross personally offline.

Asked if she thought it was shocking that Ross tweeted the news of her son's death, Haas said, "Absolutely not."

"It's an excellent way to disseminate information," she said.

Haas said that while Ross could have called 200 of her friends, tweeting the news was "much easier" to reach out to all of her friends simultaneously, who then "immediately set in place a support system in one moment."

"As quickly as we can get the information out to support someone is as quick as there's criticism," said Haas, of some of the negative attention Ross' case has been receiving from people like McGraw. "It's very unfortunate that's the reaction."

Colleen Padilla, another mom blogger, said that she too would consider reaching out to the online community in a time of need.

"In the defense of her tweeting during a tragedy, that is her community," said Padilla. "I think today, the Internet is a place where mom's are seeking support, advice and answers."

Ross, who is now mourning the death of her son with her husband Steven, who is in the air force and was scheduled to deploy to Iraq, said that she and her family want to be left alone, and want their son to be remembered as a "powerful little boy."

"He was full of life and commanded attention in a room when he entered it," she said.

Yazılıda kağıt nasıl kapatılır?

This is what happens when one asks a smart student not to let others see his paper during the exam.

NTV müzik jürisi son 10 yılın en iyi albümlerini seçti.

İSTANBUL - NTV müzik jürisi son 10 yılın en iyi albümlerini seçti. Jüriye göre son 10 yılın en iyi yabancı albümü 'Back to Black' ile Amy Winehouse olurken, Radiohead, iki albümle ilk 10'da yer alıyor.

İşte son 10 yılın en iyi yabancı albümleri: [video klipler için ntvmsnbc'yi ziyaret edebilirsiniz]

1- Amy Winehouse - Back To Black (2007)

2- Radiohead - Kid A (2000)

3- Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (2006)

4- The White Stripes - Elephant (2008)

5- Gorillaz - Demon Days (2005)

6 - Radiohead - In Rainbows (2008)

7- Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002)

8- Green Day - American Idiot (2004)

9- Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3 (2009)

10- Norah Jones - Come Away with Me (2002)

Sevin Okyay'dan alternatif 'caz dolu' liste:
- Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Jack DeJohnette - Inside Out (2001)
- William Parker - O'Neal's Porch (2001)
- Matthew Shipp - Matthew Shipp's New Orbit (2001)
- David S. Ware - Corridors and Parallels (2001)
- Wayne Shorter - Footprints Live! (2002)
- Esbjörn Svensson Trio - Viaticum (2005)
- Andrew Hill - Time Lines (2006)
- Jason Moran - Artist in Residence (2006)
- Anthony Braxton, Milford Graves, William Parker - Beyond Quantum (2008)

Jüri:
Yeşim Akdoğan, ntvmsnbc
Noyan Ayan, ntvmsnbc
Hasan Cömert, ntvmsnbc
Meltem Fıratlı, Billboard
Gülşah Güray, Radyo Eksen
Pınar İlkiz, ntvmsnbc
Berna Kaytaz, Radyo Virgin
Olcay Özkan, Radyo Virgin
Atilla Şen, DYG Radyoları
Ahmet Yeşiltepe, ntvmsnbc

Yeşim Akdoğan
1- Blur - Think Tank
2- The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement
3- Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane & Sugarcane
4- Elbow - Leaders of the Free World
5- Gorillaz - Demon Days
6- Norah Jones - Come Away with Me
7- Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
8- Damien Rice - 0
9- Air - Talkie Walkie
10- Mano Chao - Próxima estación esperanza

Noyan Ayan
1- Radiohead - In Rainbows
2- The White Stripes - Elephant
3- Aphex Twin - Drukqs
4- Portishead - Third
5- The Chemical Brothers - Come With Us
6- Radiohead - Kid A
7- Gnarles Barkley - St. Elsewhere
8- Bjork - Vespertine
9- Sigur Ros - Med ud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust
10-Tool - Lateralus

Hasan Cömert
1- Radiohead – In Rainbows
2- Collateral Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
3 -White Stripes – Icky Thump
4- Radiohead – Kid A
5- The Good, the Bad and the Queen – The Good, the Bad and the Queen
6– Cocorosie - Noah’s Ark
7- Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
8- White Stripes – Elephant
9- Eddie Wedder – Into the Wild
10- Kate Bush – Aerial

Meltem Fıratlı
1- The Strokes - Is This It
2- Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
3- Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
4- M.I.A. - Arular
5- Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
6- Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
7- MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
8- Kanye West - The College Dropout
9- Kings of Leon - Only by The Night
10- The White Stripes: Elephant

Gülşah Güray
1- Manic Street Preachers – Know Your Enemy
2- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – No More Shall We Part
3- Firewater – The Golden Hour
4- PJ Harvey – Stories From the City Stories From the Sea
5- Tindersticks – Can Our Love
6- Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
7- Blonde Redhead - Misery Is a Butterfly
8- Ian Brown – Solarized
9- Tom Waits - Real Gone
10- Gorillaz - Gorillaz

Pınar İlkiz
1- Heather Nova - Wonderlust
2- Ane Brun - A Temporary Dive
3- Rachael Yamagata - Happenstance
4- Various Artitst - Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
5- Madeleine Peyroux - Careless Love
6- Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Nocturama
7- Yasmin Levy - La Juderia
8- Diego El Cigala & Bebo Valdes - Lagrimas Negras
9- PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
10- Explosions in the Sky - How Strange, Innocence

Berna Kaytaz
1- Charlie Haden – Land of the Sun
2- Azymuth – Pure
3- Pat Metheny – Speaking of Now
4- Abbey Lincoln – Abbey Sings Abbey
5- Wolfgang Haffner – Acoustic Shapes
6- Avishai Cohen – Third World Love Songs
7- Tania Maria – Viva Brazil
8- Patricia Barber – The Cole Porter Mix
9- Robert Glasper – Double Booked
10- Keiko Matsui – Moyo

Olcay Özkan
1- Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
2- Jay-Z -The Blueprint 3
3- Eminem -The Marshal Mathers LP
4- Kanye West -The College Dropout
5- OutKast - Stankonia
6- Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
7- Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D.
8- Lady Gaga -The Fame and The Fame Monster
9- Green Day -American Idiot
10 OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

Atilla Şen
1- Ricky Martin - Ricky Martin
2- Santana - Supernaturel
3- Enrique Iglesias - Enrique
4- Madonna - Confession on a Dance Floor
5- Eminem - The Eminem Show
6- Jay-Z - The BluePrint 3
7- Lilly Allen - It’s Not Me It’s You
8- The Black Eyed Peas - The End
9- Shakira - Laundry service
10- Michael Jackson - This Is It

Ahmet Yeşiltepe
1 - Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
2 - Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
3 - The Black Eyed Peas - Monkey Business
4 - Radiohead - Kid A
5 - Johnny Cash - Unearthed
6 - Tom Waits - Glitter and Doom Live
7 - Red Hot Chilli Peppers - By The Way
8 - Gorillaz – Gorillaz
9 - The White Stripes - Elephant
10 - Green Day - American Idiot

İranlı 'hacker'lar Twitter'ı utandırdı

İSTANBUL - En büyük mikrobloging ağı Twitter, dün gece İranlılar tarafından 'hack"lendi. Iranian Cyber Army adlı hack grubunun eyleminde, Twitter'a giren herkes politik mesaj veren başka bir siteye yönlendirdi. Twitter, güvenlik açıklarını gözden geçiriyor.

The Guardian ve BBC web sitelerinde yer alan haberlere göre, yaklaşık 30 milyon kullanıcısı olduğu tahmin edilen Twitter'ın "hacklenmesinin" ardından, gidilen harici web sitesi dışında Twitter ağının birkaç saat kullanılamadığını, sayfaya giriş yapılamadığını ya da mesaj gönderilemediğini bildirdi.

BBC web sitesinde yer alan habere göre, gidilen sayfada kırmızı ve siyah bir ekran üzerinde yeşil renkli bir bayrağın ortaya çıktığı, ayrıca İngilizce ve Farsça sloganlar yer aldığı belirtildi. Ekranda şu yazının yer aldığını kaydetti:

"Bu site, İran siber ordusu tarafından hacklenmiştir. ABD, internet erişimini kontrol ettiğini ve yönettiğini düşünüyor ama yönetmiyor. Biz, gücümüzle interneti kontrol ediyoruz ve yönetiyoruz, dolayısıyla İranlıları kışkırtmaya çalışmayın."

Gazete, iki saat sonra sitenin normale döndüğünü belirterek, site yetkililerinin "planlanmamış bir arıza süresinin yaşandığını" bildirdiğini yazdı. Ancak olay, Twitter gibi dev bir internet yatırımının bile ne denli ciddi güvenlik açıkları olduğunu göstermesi açısından ilginç.

İran'da geçen haziran ayında yapılan cumhurbaşkanı seçimlerinin ardından da Twitter'ın ilgi odağı olduğunu hatırlatan Guardian, ABD yönetiminin Twitter'ı İran'daki cumhurbaşkanı seçimleri sonrasında yapılan protestoları duyurmaya ve yaymaya çağırdığını kaydetti.

Twitter'ı "hackleyen" grup hakkında çok az bilgiye sahip olunduğuna, ancak sayfaya bırakılan mesajların kafa karıştırdığına dikkati çeken gazete, şu yorumu yaptı:

"Her ne kadar hackerların bıraktığı mesaj Amerikan karşıtı olsa da sayfaya yerleştirilen yeşil renkli bayrak, Cumhurbaşkanı Mahmud Ahmedinejad'ın muhalifi Hüseyin Musavi'nin 'yeşil hareketini' akla getiriyor."

Twitter hack by 'Iranian Cyber Army' is really just misdirection

More than one site has been hit by the pro-Iranian hackers who briefly misdirected web traffic for Twitter to their own site

The 'Iranian Cyber Army', apparently a pro-Iranian group, briefly misdirected Twitter users. (Translations of the text welcome.)

The "Twitter hack" by the "Iranian Cyber Army" turns out not to have been a hack of Twitter itself: instead they took aim at the DNS records for the site itself (though Twitter itself says in a blog post that API services - which contact the servers directly - were unaffected.)

The hackers also appear to have hacked mowjcamp.org, an advocacy site for Iranian protesters against the re-elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

I tried to contact the "Iranian Cyber Army" at the given (Gmail) address on the website: it bounced as undeliverable.

Rik Ferguson, a security analyst at Trend Micro, said: "This kind of DNS hijacking usually involves compromising the registrar responsible for the DNS records of the victim company. The attackers then make unauthorised changes to the DNS records. These changes mean that when you or I type a web site address into our browsers, we are directed not to the real web site but to a second site, set up by the hackers, in this case the 'Iranian Cyber Army'. This has the net effect of making it look like, in this example, servers belonging to Twitter were compromised when in reality that was not the case."

Similar misdirections have happened in the past by accident when "root servers" which route queries for domain lookups have been misprogrammed. Pakistan was blamed for making YouTube inaccessible to the world in February 2008. The government ordered ISPs to set up their DNS servers to reroute any queries inside the country for the site to an "inaccessible" message - but that block was then passed on to DNS servers around the world. (Update: altered to try to clarify that the Pakistan/YouTube incident was about routing tables, not DNS.)

However security experts know that DNS servers are a major source of weakness in the internet: because they determined how traffic is routed, control of them gives hackers the ability to send people where they like. In July 2008 researchers had to race to fix a flaw discovered in the DNS setup before hackers could exploit it.

Ferguson added: "These sorts of attacks are usually limited to hacktivism activities like this one today, but imagine the potential to criminals if they could pull this off against any site requiring log in credentials, such as PayPal, eBay, MSN, Facebook. One has to wonder how quickly the attack would be noted if the dummy site was an exact replica of the victim and was simply there to harvest credentials and redirect the user then into the real site."

Such attacks, called "pharming", presently happen on individual PCs that have been silently taken over by malware, not DNS compromises. But, warns Ferguson, "the potential is demonstrably there. If attacks like this can be said to serve any purpose at all, then perhaps they can serve as a reminder that we all need to absolutely ensure that our business partners meet our own high security standards, and that stands in both the on- and offline worlds."

Update: a translation of some of the text has been provided: "the red text says "Peace be with you. Ya Hossein!" (Hossein being the third imam in the Shia Islam hierarchy, this phrase is used as an exclamation, a bit like we might say 'Oh my god!')'.

'The lower text says "If the leader orders us to, we will attack and if he wants us to, we will lose our heads. If he wants us to have patience and wait, we shall sit down and put up with it."'

(We still don't know what the top part, in blue, says: that's Arabic not Farsi/Iranian, apparently.)

Intriguingly this site's content (the pic is from mowjcamp.org) is different from what was allegedly put on the Twitter misdirection: "U.S.A. Think They Controlling And Managing Internet By Their Access, But They Don't, We Control And Manage Internet By Our Power, So Do Not Try To Stimulation Iranian Peoples To…. NOW WHICH COUNTRY IN EMBARGO LIST? IRAN? USA? WE PUSH THEM IN EMBARGO LIST ;) Take Care."

BRrip versus BDrip

Over the past month, you may have noticed two new HD (XviD) formats while browsing your favorite torrent tracker. While Blu-Ray BRRips and BDRips have been around for quite some time (in x264 / *.mkv container), only recently have scene groups been releasing them as XviD *.avi files.

But what makes this remarkable is that they’re compatible with standalone home DVD players (with DivX/XviD support), XBOX 360, PS3, and other external peripherals. These BRRip XviD and BDRip XviD files allow anyone to burn HD-quality Blu-Ray ripped movies on regular DVD media, and playback on most conventional DVD players - without the headaches of re-encoding or DVD authoring. There’s just one catch - you’ll likely need an HDTV to take full advantage of the superior video quality.

BRRip = An XviD encode from a Blu-Ray release (i.e. a 1080p *.mkv file).

BDRip = An XviD encode directly from a source Blu-Ray disk.

NOTE: While both BRRips and BDRips are superior to DVDRips, they are normally released in 720p resolution, since standalone DivX (*.avi) players do not support anything higher than this anyways. They should not be confused with genuine Blu-Ray rips in 1080p, which are usually done in native Blu-Ray files, or as H.264 *.mkv files.

BRRip vs. BDRip: Which is Best?

Technically there shouldn’t be much of a difference between the two - with one exception: Since BRRips are taken directly from a release that has already been ripped from a Blu-Ray disk (so it’s not a direct source), if there was a problem with the original .mkv, such as bad AR (aspect ratio) then it’ll be transferred to the BRRip, as well. True BDRips come straight from a Blu-Ray disk, which eliminates any problem with a middleman. However, this is somewhat of a moot point - the person/group responsible for the rip is seemingly more important to the end-product quality.

BDRip / BRRip ‘Release Groups’

There are currently only a handful of release groups who are putting out BRRips and BDRips in XviD format. Since this is a brand-new (and popular) format, look for many more to emerge. Currently, they are:

• • PRoDJi (highly recommended)
• • D-ZON3 (also highly recommended rips - files are smaller and picture is better, without sacrificing audio, which is still @ 448 kb/s 6 chnls AC3).
• • FLAWL3SS (at this time, not recommended - quality is comparable to DVDRips).

Below is a comparison of screenshots from both D-ZON3 and FLAWL3SS BRRip releases. If you look closely you’ll notice the difference in detail, especially in the background. The top image from D-ZON3’s release is crisper and clearer:

BDRip / BRRip vs DVD5 / DVD9

The standard retail DVD uses a resolution of 720×480 (NTSC) or 720×576 (PAL), but you will see that Blu-Ray rips (in these XviD *.avi files, and otherwise) offer better video quality than DVD5 or DVD9 disks, even on an HDTV. This is because the source for BRRips and BDRips (obviously being a Blu-Ray disk), is in full 1080p resolution. When done correctly by employing the proper filtering techniques, much of the HQ detail can be retained even in a smaller resolution.

Below is a comparison of screenshots from D-ZON3’s BRRip and DEViSE’s DVDRip (x264):

Searching For BDRip / BRRip on Public & Private Trackers

Aside from conducting searches using the above release group names, simply use the keywords "BRRip XviD" and "BDRip XviD" - both will adequately filter the results. Unfortunately, most public trackers don’t (yet) have many titles to offer; or, in the case of mininova almost all of the results are from private trackers.

Private trackers have a few more titles to offer, and pickings are still slim; mostly just for popular mainstream movie releases. Look for these stats to increase dramatically in the upcoming months. Here are current statistics for private sites that offer both BRRips and BDRips in XviD format:

Tracker:	# of BRRips:	# of BDRips:
RevoTT	28	3
TL	53	13
Demonoid	5	1
TTi.nu	5	2
FunFile	8	2

L'hiver sur les arbres

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Why 'colonel' is pronounced "kernel"?

[Date: 1500-1600; Origin: coronal 'colonel' (16-17 centuries), from French coronnel, from Old Italian colonnello 'column of soldiers, colonel', from colonna 'column', from Latin columna; COLUMN]

1548, coronell, from M.Fr. coronel, modified by dissimilation from It. colonnella "commander of a column of soldiers at the head of a regiment," from compagna colonella "little column company," from L. columna "pillar." Eng. spelling modified 1583 to conform with It., but the earlier pronunciation was retained.

Erdoğan, Bin Ladin'den daha tehlikeli

İslamcılık 2.0 daha tehlikeli

DanIel PIpes

Yorum / 26/11/2009

İslamcılığın şeriatı getirme aracı olarak sadece şiddeti benimseyen 1.0 versiyonu amacına ulaşamadı. Ancak Erdoğan'ın da temsil ettiği 2.0 versiyonu Batı uygarlığı için daha büyük bir tehdit. Yasal sistem içinde çalışan bu versiyon halkın gönlünü kazanarak yavaş yavaş ilerliyor

Bilgisayar terimleriyle konuşursak, eğer İran İslam devriminin lideri Ayetullah Humeyni, Kaide lideri Usame Bin Ladin ve ABD’nin Fort Hood 13 kişiyi öldüren binbaşı Nidal Hasan İslamcılık 1.0 versiyonunu temsil ediyorsa, Türkiye Başbakanı Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Mısır kökenli akademisyen Tarık Ramadan ve ABD Kongresi’nin ilk Müslüman üyesi Keith Ellison İslamcılık 2.0 versiyonunu temsil ediyor. İlk versiyon daha fazla insan öldürüyor, fakat ikincisi Batı uygarlığına daha büyük bir tehdit yöneltiyor.
1.0 versiyonu, küresel bir halife tarafından yönetilen ve tamamen şeriatla düzenlenen bir toplum oluşturma hedefinin önünde engel olarak gördüğü şeylere saldırıyor. İslamcılığın totaliter yönetimden mega-terörizme kadar uzanan orijinal taktikleri sınırsız zalimliği içeriyor.
Tek bir saldırıda 3 bin kişi ölüyor. Bin Ladin’in atom silahı peşinde koşmasıysa, bu kanlı sayının 100, hatta 1000 kat daha artabileceğini gösteriyor.

Devrim de sürekli olamadı
Ancak, İslamcılığın önemli bir siyasi güç haline geldiği son 30 yıla bakıldığında, tek başına şiddetin nadiren işe yaradığı görülüyor. Terörizme maruz kalanlar nadiren radikal İslam’a boyun eğiyor - Mısır’da Enver Sedat’ın 1981’de suikasta uğramasının, 11 Eylül saldırılarının, 2002’de Bali, 2004’te Madrid ve
2005’te Amman’da meydana gelen bombalı saldırıların veya İsrail, Afganistan ve Pakistan’daki terörist saldırıların ardından böyle bir şey gerçekleşmedi. Terörizm fiziksel zarara ve ölümlere yol açıyor, korku saçıyor, fakat var olan düzeni nadiren değiştiriyor. Katrina kasırgasına veya 2004’teki tsunamiye İslamcıların yol açtığını farz edin; bu olaylarla neyi başarabilirlerdi ki?
Şeriatı getirmek için terör içermeyen şiddet ortaya koymanın da daha iyi bir iş çıkardığı söylenemez. Geniş kapsamlı bir sosyal başkaldırı anlamında devrim İslamcıları sadece bir kez tek bir yerde iktidara getirdi, bu da 1978-79’da İran’da yaşandı. Benzer biçimde bir darbeyle sadece bir kere, 1989’da Sudan’da iktidara geldiler. İç savaş için de, 1996’da Afganistan’da yaşananlar bağlamında aynısı söylenebilir.
İslamcılık 1.0 versiyonunun uyguladığı şiddet şeriatı ilerletmekte nadiren başarılı olurken, İslam 2.0 versiyonunun sistem içinde çalışma stratejisi daha çok işe yarıyor. Kamuoyunun gönlünü kazanma yeteneğine sahip olan İslamcılar, Fas, Mısır, Lübnan ve Kuveyt gibi Müslüman çoğunluklu ülkelerde
ana muhalefet güçlerini temsil ediyorlar. İslamcılar 1992’de Cezayir’de, 2001’de Bangladeş’te, 2002’de Türkiye’de ve 2005’te Irak’ta seçimleri kazandı. Bir kere iktidara geldikten sonra da ülkeyi şeriata doğru götürmeye başlayabiliyorlar. İran Cumhurbaşkanı Mahmud Ahmedinecad ülke sokaklarının büyük öfkesine maruz kalırken ve Bin Ladin bir mağarada korkudan sinmişken, Erdoğan halk desteğinin tadını çıkarıyor, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti’ni yeniden şekillendiriyor ve dünyadaki İslamcılara ayartıcı bir model sunuyor.

Kaide teorisyeni bile ‘döndü’
Kaide’nin bir zamanlar önde gelen teorisyeni olan Seyyid İmam el Şerif bu şablonun farkına vararak, terörizmi açıkça reddedip siyasi araçları benimsedi. Dr. Fadıl adıyla da tanınan Şerif, Enver Sedat suikastına yardım etmekle suçlanmıştı. 1988’de de Batı’ya karşı sürekli, şiddet içeren cihadı savunduğu bir kitap yayımlamıştı. Fakat Şerif zaman içinde şiddet içeren saldırıların işe yaramadığını gözlemledi; bunun yerine devletin içine sızmaya ve toplumu etkilemeye yönelik bir stratejiyi savunmaya başladı.
Kısa süre önce yazdığı bir kitapta Müslümanlara ve hatta Müslüman olmayanlara karşı şiddet kullanılmasını şu cümlelerle kınıyordu: “Afganistan ve Irak’ta akıtılan her damla kan
Bin Ladin, Zevahiri ve onların takipçilerinin sorumluluğu”; “Düşmanlarınızdan birinin binalarını yerle bir etmeniz ve onun da sizin ülkelerinizden birini yerle bir etmesi ne işe yarıyor? Onun halkından bir kişiyi öldürmeniz ve onun da sizden bin kişiyi öldürmesinin yararı ne?”
Şerif’in terörizm teorisyenliğinden yasalar çerçevesinde dönüşümün avukatlığına doğru geçirdiği evrim, çok daha geniş kapsamlı bir değişimin göstergesi; yazar Lawrence Wright’ın da belirttiği gibi, Şerif’in ihaneti Kaide’ye ‘korkunç bir tehdit’ yöneltiyor. Cezayir, Mısır ve Suriye’de bir zamanlar şiddete başvuran başka İslamcı kuruluşlar da yasalar dahilinde ortaya konulan İslamcılığın taşıdığı potansiyelini teslim ettiler ve büyük ölçüde şiddetten vazgeçtiler. Batılı ülkelerde de paralel bir değişikliği gözlemleyebilirsiniz; Ramazan ve Ellison filizlenmekte olan bir eğilimi temsil ediyor.

2.0 özgürlüğü tehlikeye atıyor
Sert ve yumuşak araçlarla iç ve dış yaklaşımların bir bileşiminden oluşan, İslamcılık 1.5 diye adlandırabileciğiniz strateji de işe yarıyor. Bu yöntem, hayatlarını yasal çerçevede sürdüren İslamcıların düşmanı yumuşatmasını, ardından şiddet kullanan unsurların iktidara el koymasını içeriyor. Hamas’ın Gazze’yi ele geçirmesi böyle bir bileşimin işe yarayabileceğini kanıtladı: 2006’da seçimleri kazandılar, 2007’de şiddetli bir ayaklanmayı sahneye koydular. Pakistan’da da benzer süreçler yaşanabilir. Britanya’ysa, şiddetin siyasi bir açılım yaratabileceği türden aksi yönde bir süreçten geçiyor olabilir.
Nihayetinde faşistler veya komünistler değil, sadece İslamcılar kaba kuvvet kullanmanın ötesine geçip halkın desteğini kazanmayı ve 2.0 versiyonunu geliştirmeyi başardı. İslamcılığın bu versiyonu geleneksel değerlerin altını oyup özgürlükleri yok ettiği için, uygar yaşamı 1.0 versiyonunun zalimliğinden bile daha fazla tehdit edebilir.
(İsrail gazetesi, Ortadoğu Forumu’nun başkanı ve Stanford Üniversitesi’nde misafir öğretim görevlisi, 24 Kasım 2009)

Islamism 2.0

[JP title: "Islamism 2.0 - an even greater threat"]

To borrow a computer term, if Ayatollah Khomeini, Osama bin Laden, and Nidal Hasan represent Islamism 1.0, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (the prime minister of Turkey), Tariq Ramadan (a Swiss intellectual), and Keith Ellison (a U.S. congressman) represent Islamism 2.0. The former kill more people but the latter pose a greater threat to Western civilization.

Hussam Ayloush (l.) hosted Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minn) at a CAIR event in November 2007.
The 1.0 version attacks those perceived as obstructing its goal of a society ruled by a global caliphate and totally regulated by the Shari'a (Islamic law). Islamism's original tactics, from totalitarian rule to mega-terrorism, encompass unlimited brutality. Three thousand dead in one attack? Bin Laden's search for atomic weaponry suggests the murderous toll could be a hundred or even a thousand times larger.

However, a review of the past three decades, since Islamism became a significant political force, finds that violence alone rarely works. Survivors of terrorism rarely capitulate to radical Islam – not after the assassination of Anwar el-Sadat in Egypt in 1981, nor the 9/11 attacks, the Bali bombings of 2002, the Madrid bombing of 2004, the Amman bombing of 2005, or the terrorist campaigns in Israel, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Terrorism does physical damage and kills and intimidates but it rarely overturns the existing order. Imagine Islamists had caused the devastation of Hurricane Katrina or the 2004 tsunami – what could these have lastingly achieved?

Non-terrorist violence aimed at applying the Shari'a does hardly better. Revolution (meaning, a wide-scale social revolt) took Islamists to power in just one place at one time - Iran in 1978–79. Likewise, coup d'état (a military overthrow) carried them to power just once – Sudan in 1989. Same for civil war – Afghanistan in 1996.

If the violence of Islamism 1.0 rarely succeeds in forwarding the Shari'a, the Islamism 2.0 strategy of working through the system does better. Islamists, adept at winning public opinion, represent the main opposition force in Muslim-majority countries such as Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, and Kuwait. Islamists have enjoyed electoral success in Algeria in 1992, Bangladesh in 2001, Turkey in 2002, and Iraq in 2005.

Once in power, they can move the country toward Shari'a. As Mahmoud Ahmadinejad faces the wrath of Iranian street demonstrators and bin Laden cowers in a cave, Erdoğan basks in public approval, remakes the Republic of Turkey, and offers an enticing model for Islamists worldwide.

Sayyid Imam al-Sharif, the Egyptian theorist of Al-Qaeda, changed his approach and now endorses lawful Islamism.
Recognizing this pattern, Al-Qaeda's once-leading theorist has publicly repudiated terrorism and adopted political means. Sayyid Imam al-Sharif (b. 1950, also known by the nom de guerre Dr. Fadl) was accused of helping assassinate Sadat. In 1988 he published a book that argued for perpetual, violent jihad against the West. With time, however, Sharif observed the inutility of violent attacks and instead advocated a strategy of infiltrating the state and influencing society.

In a recent book, he condemned the use of force against Muslims ("Every drop of blood that was shed or is being shed in Afghanistan and Iraq is the responsibility of bin Laden and Zawahiri and their followers") and even against non-Muslims (9/11 was counterproductive, for "what good is it if you destroy one of your enemy's buildings, and he destroys one of your countries? What good is it if you kill one of his people, and he kills a thousand of yours?").

Sharif's evolution from theorist of terrorism to advocate of lawful transformation echoes a much broader shift; accordingly, as author Lawrence Wright notes, his defection poses a "terrible threat" to Al-Qaeda. Other once-violent Islamist organizations in Algeria, Egypt, and Syria have recognized the potential of lawful Islamism and largely renounced violence. One also sees a parallel shift in Western countries; Ramadan and Ellison represent a burgeoning trend.

(What one might call Islamism 1.5 – a combination of hard and soft means, of external and internal approaches – also works. It involves lawful Islamists softening up the enemy, then violent elements seizing power. The Hamas takeover of Gaza proved that such a combination can work: win elections in 2006, then stage a violent insurrection in 2007. Similar processes are possibly underway in Pakistan. The United Kingdom might be undergoing the opposite process, whereby violence creates a political opening.)

In conclusion, only Islamists, not fascists or communists, have gone well beyond crude force to win public support and develop a 2.0 version. Because this aspect of Islamism undermines traditional values and destroys freedoms, it may threaten civilized life even more than does 1.0's brutality.

Mr. Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum and Taube distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University.

"Murt" ne demek?

Murt Mersin ağacının yazın olgunlaşan, bezelye büyüklüğünde, morumsu siyah ya da beyaza çalan yeşil renkte, çeşitli hastalıkların tedavisinde kullanılan meyvesi. Murt kelimesi Farsça'dan gelmekte. Mersin ağacının adı ise Rumca'dan. Mersin; Mersingillerden, Güney ve Batı Anadolu dağlarında yetişen, yaprakları yaz kış yeşil kalan, gıda ve parfüm sanayisinde ham madde olarak kullanılan, meyvesi murt adıyla bilinen, esansı çıkarılan, beyaz çiçekli, güzel kokulu bir ağaç, mersin ağacı, sazak (Myrtus communis)

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Internet Dream [with lyrics]

Cuttin' it close
Let the dishes turn green
Everyone chasin' their
Internet dream

Some like it hot
In a triple X funk
Winnin' the auction
Turnin' money to junk

Cappin' the flag
In a virtual dash
Skippin' your wedding
To play in a match

[Chorus]

Shut all the blinds
You mighta been seen
Sittin' alone
With your internet dream

Winning the race

For your digital fix
Living your life
With a clickity-click
[Repeat]

"So every day I swear
I'm gonna go to bed at like eleven.
And all of a sudden it's 4AM.
And I was just watching Youtube and
Reading Wikipedia for five hours.
it's like MAN... you ask me the
Next day. I can't even remember
What I was doin. Crazy."

[Verse]

[Chorus]

"I was talkin to my mom the other day
And she's like Oh,
My computer's been acting up again!
So I'm thinkin she got a virus
Or something...
And I'm like 'ok what's wrong?'
And she's like 'You know that bar that
You type the website in! It disappeared!
I can never remember how to get it back!
I'm like 'ok Mom. We did this last week.
I love my Mom and Dad. "

[Chorus X 2]

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest [Guguk Kuşu]

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest [Guguk Kuşu], originally uploaded by shutterbug_iconium.

***He talks a little the way Papa used to, voice loud and full of hell, but he doesn’t look like Papa; Papa was a full-blood Columbia Indian—a chief—and hard and shiny as a gunstock. This guy is redheaded with long red sideburns and a tangle of curls out from under his cap, been needing cut a long time, and he’s broad as Papa was tall, broad across the jaw and shoulders and chest, a broad white devilish grin, and he’s hard in a different kind of way from Papa, kind of the way a baseball is hard under the scuffed leather. A seam runs across his nose and one cheekbone where somebody laid him a good one in a fight, and the stitches are still in the seam. He stands there waiting, and when nobody makes a move to say anything to him he commences to laugh. Nobody can tell exactly why he laughs; there’s nothing funny going on. But it’s not the way that Public Relation laughs, it’s free and loud and it comes out of his wide grinning mouth and spreads in rings bigger and bigger till it’s lapping against the walls all over the ward. Not like that fat Public Relation laugh. This sounds real. I realize all of a sudden it’s the first laugh I’ve heard in years.
***You’re talking like a crazy ma—”
“Like a crazy man? How astute.”
“Damn it, Harding, I didn’t mean it like that. You ain’t crazy that way. I mean—hell, I been surprised how sane you guys all are. As near as I can tell you’re not any crazier than the average asshole on the street—”
“Ah yes, the asshole on the street.”
***McMurphy thought this over, looking at the backs of his hands. He looked back up to Harding.
“Harding, what is it? What happens?”
“You mean all this?”
McMurphy nodded.
Harding shook his head. “I don’t think I can give you an answer. Oh, I could give you Freudian reasons with fancy talk, and that would be right as far as it went. But what you want are the reasons for the reasons, and I’m not able to give you those. Not for the others, anyway. For myself? Guilt. Shame. Fear. Self-belittlement. I discovered at an early age that I was—shall we be kind and say different? It’s a better, more general word than the other one. I indulged in certain practices that our society regards as shameful. And I got sick. It wasn’t the practices, I don’t think, it was the feeling that the great, deadly, pointing forefinger of society was pointing at me—and the great voice of millions chanting, ‘Shame. Shame. Shame.’ It’s society’s way of dealing with someone different.”
“I’m different,” McMurphy said. “Why didn’t something like that happen to me? I’ve had people bugging me about one thing or another as far back as I can remember but that’s not what—but it didn’t drive me crazy.”
“No, you’re right. That’s not what drove you crazy. I wasn’t giving my reason as the sole reason. Though I used to think at one time, a few years ago, my turtleneck years, that society’s chastising was the sole force that drove one along the road to crazy, but you’ve caused me to re-appraise my theory. There’s something else that drives people, strong people like you, my friend, down that road.”
“Yeah? Not that I’m admitting I’m down that road, but what is this something else?”
“It is us.” He swept his hand about him in a soft white circle and repeated, “Us.”
***

Türklerde ‘Ottomania’* başladı

Frustrated With West, Turks Revel in Empire Lost

By DAN BILEFSKY

ISTANBUL — More than eight decades ago, Ertugrul Osman, an heir to the Ottoman throne, was unceremoniously thrown out of Turkey with his family. He lived to be 97, spending most of his years in a modest Manhattan apartment above a bakery.

But in September, at his funeral in the garden of the majestic Sultanahmet Mosque here, thousands of mourners paid their respects, including government officials and celebrities. Some even kissed the hands of surviving dynasty members, who appeared shocked at the adulation.

The show of reverence for the man who might have been sultan, historians said, was a seminal moment in the rehabilitation of the Ottoman Empire, long demonized by some in the modern, secular Turkish Republic created by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in 1923. During Ataturk’s rule, the empire was remembered mainly for its decadence and its humiliating defeat and partition by the Allies in World War I.

Mr. Osman’s send-off was just the latest manifestation of what sociologists call “Ottomania,” a harking back to an era marked by conquest and cultural splendor during which sultans ruled an empire stretching from the Balkans to the Indian Ocean and claimed the spiritual leadership of the Muslim world.

The longing for those glory years — by religious Muslims and secularists alike — partly reflects Turks’ frustration with a European Union that seems ill disposed to accept them as members. And in a country where the tension between religion and secularism is never far from the surface, members of the new governing class of religious Muslims have seized upon nostalgia for the Ottoman Empire as a way to challenge the pro-Western elite that emerged during Ataturk’s rule, and to help forge a national identity of Turkey as an aspiring regional leader.

“Turks are attracted to the heroism and the glory of the Ottoman period because it belongs to them,” said the director of Topkapi Palace, Ilber Ortayli, who, as the keeper of the sumptuous residence where Ottoman sultans lived for 400 years, is also a zealous unofficial gatekeeper of the Ottoman legacy. “The sultans hold a place in the popular consciousness like Douglas MacArthur or General Patton have for Americans.”

The current vogue of all things Ottoman, from the proliferation of historical docudramas to the popularity of porcelain ashtrays adorned with harem women, is sometimes manifesting itself in ways that would surely have made a real sultan blanch.

During Ramadan, Burger King offered a special sultan menu featuring dishes popular in the Ottoman years. In the television commercial promoting the meal, a turbaned Janissary — a member of an elite group of Ottoman soldiers — exhorts viewers not to “leave any burgers standing.”

Ottomania has also infected the nation’s youth; 20-somethings at hip dance clubs here wear T-shirts emblazoned with slogans like “The Empire Strikes Back” or “Terrible Turks” — the latter turning the taunt Europeans once used against their Ottoman invaders into a defiant symbol of self-affirmation.

Kerim Sarc, 42, the owner of Ottoman Empire T-Shirts and the scion of an illustrious Ottoman family, believes that the newfound fondness for a mighty empire that lasted more than 600 years and once reached the gates of Vienna is linked to the long struggle for membership in the European Union. The bloc has imposed tough conditions on Turkey, including asking it to compromise in its longstanding dispute over Cyprus.

“We Turks are tired of being treated in Europe like poor, backward peasants,” he said.

The Ottoman renaissance is equally prevalent in the nation’s highest political circles, where the Muslim-inspired Justice and Development Party government has been aggressively courting former Ottoman colonies, including Iraq and Syria, in at least a partial reorientation of foreign policy toward the east that Turkish analysts have labeled as “Neo-Ottoman.”

That shift has alarmed officials in Europe and Washington, and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to reassure President Obama when he meets him at the White House on Monday that Turkey has not abandoned its Western course.

It is a sign of the Ottoman Empire’s new hold on the popular imagination that in January when Mr. Erdogan publicly rebuked the Israeli president, Shimon Peres, over the war in Gaza, at a debate at Davos, Switzerland, he was greeted enthusiastically by his supporters back in Turkey with the chant, “Our fatih is back!” The allusion was to Fatih — or conqueror — Sultan Mehmet II, the towering sultan who at age 21 conquered Constantinople, now Istanbul, in 1453.

Colleagues said Mr. Erdogan proudly displays an original decree in his office by Sultan Mehmet II granting autonomy to religious minorities within the empire.

“The Ottoman Empire conquered two-thirds of the world but did not force anyone to change their language or religion at a time when minorities elsewhere were being oppressed,” said Egeman Bagis, the minister for European Union affairs. “Turks can be proud of that legacy.”

Pelin Batu, co-host of a popular television history program, argued that the glorification of the Ottoman era by a government with roots in political Islam reflected a revolt against the secular cultural revolution undertaken by Ataturk, who outlawed the wearing of Islamic head scarves in state institutions and abolished the Ottoman-era caliphate.

“Ottomania is a form of Islamic empowerment for a new Muslim religious bourgeoisie who are reacting against Ataturk’s attempt to relegate religion and Islam to the sidelines,” she said.

In a society struggling with its identity, not everyone welcomes the phenomenon.

Some critics accuse its proponents of glossing over the empire’s decline and of glorifying an anachronistic system that, at the very least, was mired in corruption and infighting in its later years. The massacre of Ottoman Armenians between 1915 and 1918 stands as a particular dark spot in the history of the empire.

“The religious Muslims now in power are trying to feed the Turkish people an Ottoman poison,” said Sada Kural, 45, a housewife and staunch supporter of Ataturk’s vision. “The Ottoman era wasn’t a good period; we were the sick man of Europe, rights were suppressed and women only got the vote after Ataturk came to power.”

While some bemoan what they consider the crude commercialization of a nation’s history, others, like Cenan Sarc, 97, who was 10 years old at the time of the empire’s collapse in 1922 and is the descendant of an Ottoman pasha, cautioned against idealizing an era of dictatorship.

Mrs. Sarc recalled her idyllic childhood in a mansion on the Bosporus, a poetic time, she said, when fathers ruled, mothers stayed at home and Islam held sway. But, she insisted, “we can never go back to that time.” Ertugrul Osman, the Ottoman heir, had himself accepted obscurity. When he visited Turkey in 1992, for the first time in 53 years, and went to see the 285-room Dolmabahce Palace, which had been his grandfather’s home, he insisted on joining a public tour group.

Asked frequently if he dreamed about restoring the empire, he always emphatically answered no. “Democracy,” he said, “works well in Turkey.”

Türklerde ‘Ottomania’* başladı

Ottomania (*Osmanlı çılgınlığı) benzetmesini de yapan Amerikan gazetesine göre, “Batı’ya öfkelenen Türkler, mutluluğu kaybolan imparatorlukta arıyor”

Amerikan New York Times gazetesi, “Batı’ya öfkelenen Türkler, mutluluğu kaybolan imparatorlukta arıyor” başlıklı bir makale yayımladı.
Dan Bilefsky imzalı makalede, Osmanlı tahtının varisi Ertuğrul Osman’ın yaklaşık 80 yıl önce ailesiyle birlikte Türkiye’den gönderildiği, ancak eylül ayındaki ölümünün ardından Sultanahmet Camii’nde yapılan cenaze törenine aralarında hükümet görevlileri ve ünlülerin de bulunduğu binlerce kişinin katıldığı belirtildi. Gazete, “Sayın Osman’a yapılan veda töreni, sosyologların “Ottomania” (Osmanlı çılgınlığı) dedikleri hadisenin son belirtisiydi” diye yazdı.

Osmanlı rönesansı
New York Times, “Hem dindar Müslümanların hem de laiklerin o görkemli yıllara özlemi, kısmen Türklerin, kendilerini üyeliğe kabul etmeye niyetli görünmeyen AB’ye öfkesini yansıtıyor” dedi. Gazete, “iktidardaki dindar Müslüman sınıfın, Osmanlı nostaljisini, Batı yanlısı seçkinlerle mücadele etmek ve Türkiye’ye bölgesel lider kimliği oluşturmak için bir fırsat olarak gördüğünü” de vurguladı.
Türkiye’nin siyasi çevrelerinde de “Osmanlı rönesansının” yaşandığını belirten gazete, Ak Parti’nin “eski Osmanlı kolonilerilerine kur yaptığını”, analistlerin dış politikadaki bu “en azından kısmi tutum değişimini ‘neo-Osmanlıcılık’ olarak adlandırdığını” belirtti. Gazete ayrıca, “Osmanlı’yla alakalı her şeye gösterilen rağbetin, bazen gerçek bir sultanın benzini attırabileceğini” vurgulayarak bir fast-food zincirinin Ramazan ayında “sultan menüsü” sunmasını buna örnek olarak gösterdi.

Newsweek calls Turks ’real winners’ of Iraq war

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Anatolia News Agency
Monday, November 30, 2009

In an article titled “Triumph of the Turk,” Newsweek’s Owen Matthews and Christopher Dickey have written that Turkey was the real winner of the war of Iraq.

“The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 could be viewed as a last-ditch attempt by the world’s sole remaining superpower to impose order on the region. Instead, the net result was to create a power vacuum, leaving Iraq too weak to counterbalance its neighbors and threatening to destabilize the whole map,” the authors wrote in the Dec. 7 international edition of the magazine.

“Turkey did its best to stay out of that fight, refusing even to let U.S. forces cross Turkish soil for the 2003 invasion. Still, it’s the Turks – not the Iranians, as many observers claim – who are now emerging as the war’s real winners,” Matthews and Dickey wrote. “In economic terms, Turkey is running neck and neck with Iran as Iraq’s biggest trading partner, even as most U.S. businesses sit helplessly on the sidelines. And in terms of regional influence, Turkey has no rival.”

The writers commented that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was working to consolidate that strength as he asserted Turkey’s independence in a part of the world long dominated by America.

“Next week, he’s in Washington to meet with President Obama, but only a few weeks ago he stood shoulder to shoulder with his ‘good friend’ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran and defended Iran’s nuclear program,” Matthews and Dickey wrote.

The writers claimed that Turkey’s longtime NATO partners are worried about Turkey’s stance about Iran, the souring of its ties with Israel and its support for Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir.

The weekly quoted Philip Gordon, Obama’s point man on Turkey at the State Department, as saying that there are “more points of disagreement than of agreement” between Washington and Ankara.

“What scares Washington most is the suspicion that Ankara’s new attitude may be driven less by the practical pursuit of Turkey’s national interest than by thinly concealed Islamist ideology,” the writers commented. “In Turkey, the cumulative anti-U.S. resentment peaked in 2003 when the Bush administration pressed Ankara to let U.S. forces invade Iraq through Turkish territory – a plan that was derailed only at the last moment by a parliamentary revolt. That was the low point of Turkey’s relationship with the United States. But it was also the start of Turkey’s rise to economic recovery and regional influence, and the beginning of a new kind of relationship with Washington.”

Added Matthews and Dickey: “Indeed, Turkey’s new standing in the region has a chance of transforming the country into something far more valuable to Washington than a subservient tool or proxy. The Turks say they’re seeking to become what Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu calls a ‘partner to solve the region’s problems.’ Whatever ambitions they may have harbored in earlier years, it’s only in this decade – especially since 2002, when Erdoğan and the AKP came to power – that Turkey has had the economic and political strength, as well as the military presence, to fill such a position.”

“Turkey’s economy has more than doubled in the past decade, converting the nation from a backwater to a regional powerhouse,” the authors wrote, adding that at the same time, the country’s financial focus has moved closer to home: Turkey has begun conducting more trade with Russia, Iraq and Iran than it does with the European Union; Ankara is on the verge of a historic deal with its Kurdish minority; and Turkey is making peace with neighboring countries such as Syria, Iran and Armenia.

“The principle is simple, says a senior Erdoğan aide who’s not authorized to speak on the record: ‘We can't be prosperous if we live in a poor neighborhood. We can’t be secure if we live in a violent one.’ Thanks to judicious diplomacy and expanding business ties throughout the region, Turkey is close to realizing what Davutoğlu calls his ‘zero-problems-with-neighbors policy,’” the Newsweek writers commented. “The new stance has boosted Ankara’s influence even further; the Turks have become the trouble-ridden region’s mediators of choice. That can scarcely be said for Iran. The Tehran regime remains paralyzed by infighting and is far from loved in most of the Arab world.”

In the article, Matthews and Dickey wrote: “Officials in Ankara say Turkey shares the West’s goals regarding Iran’s nuclear ambitions; it’s just doing things in its own way. ‘We have been dealing with [Iranians] for centuries,’ says the Erdoğan aide. ‘We show them the respect and friendship they crave. Would our being hostile to Iran do anything to solve the problem of their nuclear program?’”

The weekly said Erdoğan offered Ahmadinejad the option of storing Iran’s uranium in Turkey and added, “Tehran ultimately said no, but the effort demonstrated that Turkey is prepared to do its part to keep the region peaceful and safe.”

Newsweek also quoted Davutoğlu as saying: “NATO is Turkey’s strongest alliance, and integration with Europe is the main objective of Turkish foreign policy. But it doesn’t mean that because of these strong ties, we can ignore the Middle East, we can ignore Asia, Central Asia, North Africa or Africa.”

“The world has changed radically since the fall of the Ottomans, and Turkey is unlikely ever to regain the imperial power it wielded for 350 years, from Algiers to Budapest and Mecca,” Matthews and Dickey wrote. “But as the world tries to move, at last, beyond the 90-year-old peace that ended peace, no other country is better positioned to pick up the pieces.”

© 2009 Hurriyet Daily News

Karpuz kabuğundan gemiler öksüz kaldı

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Güncelleme: 18:03 TSİ 30 Kasım. 2009 Pazartesi

Karpuz kabuğundan gemiler öksüz kaldı
'Karpuz kabugundan gemiler yapma' filmi ile adını duyuran, yönetmen Ahmet Uluçay, tedavi gördüğü Çapa Tıp Fakültesi Hastanesi'nde vefat etti.




İSTANBUL - Kütahya'nın Türk sinemasına armağanı olan ünlü yönetmen Ahmet Uluçay hayata gözlerini yumdu.

Ahmet Uluçay için yarın saat 11.00'de Beyoğlu Emek Sineması'nda bir tören düzenlenecek. Uluçay'ın cenazesi, Kütahya'nın Tavşanlı ilçesi Tepecik köyünde kılınacak ikindi namazının ardından toprağa verilecek.

Kütahya'nin bir köyünde yasayan ve kısıtlı imkanlarına rağmen sinema yapmaktan asla vazgeçmeyen yönetmen 2007'den bu yana Bozkırda Deniz Kabuğu adlı yeni filmi üzerinde çalışıyordu.

Ekonomik sebeplerden ötürü filmin çekimlerine ara vermek zorunda kalan Uluçay bir süredir de rahatsızlığı yüzünden tedavi görüyordu.

Ahmet Uluçay kimdir?
Ahmet Uluçay, 1954 yılında Kütahya'da doğdu ve Sinemayla 1960 yılında, ilkokul sıralarındayken köye gelen bir seyyar sinemacı sayesinde tanıştı ve daha 12 yaşındayken arkadaşı İsmail Mutlu ile sinema makinesi yapmak için yola koyuldu. Uluçay, tam 3 yıl uğraştı ve 'Karpuz Kabuğundan Gemiler Yapmak' filminde de anlatıldığı gibi bir ahırda köylü halkına film göstermeye başladı.

Köyde tavukçulukla uğraşan arkadaşı İsmail Mutlu ve maden işçisi arkadaşı Şerif Akarsu ile ''Tepecik Köyü Arkadaş Sinema Grubu''nu oluşturan Uluçay, ilk filmi ''Optik Düşler''i (1992) arkadaşlarıyla Almanya'da yaşayan bir gurbetçiden aldıkları VHS kamerayla çekti. Uluçay, ilk kez 1994 yılında 6. Ankara Uluslararası Film Festivali'ne katılarak ''Optik Düşler'' ve ''Koltuk Değneklerinden Kanat Yapmak'' isimli filmleriyle tanındı.

Sinemaya yaşamını adayan Uluçay, yıllarca geçim derdiyle uğraştı, kamyon şoförlüğü, inşaat işçiliği ve tavukçuluk gibi pek çok işte çalıştı. Çocukluğundan esinlendiği ilk uzun metrajlı filmi ''Karpuz Kabuğundan Gemiler Yapmak''ı çekerken geçimini sağlamak için yem fabrikasında hamallık da yapan Uluçay, bu filmiyle Türkiye'de ve yurtdışında 40'a yakın ödül aldı.

2 çocuk babası olan Uluçay, ''Bozkırda Deniz Kabuğu'' filminin çekimlerine 2007 yılında başlamış, ancak sağlık sorunları nedeniyle film yarım kalmıştı.

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LCD mi Plazma mi?

İSTANBUL - Panel televizyon almaya uzun süredir kararlısınız ama ekonomik durgunluktu, fiyatların yüksekliğiydi, LCD-plazma savaşıydı derken bugüne kadar ertelediniz; iyi de ettiniz. Ancak hala niyetiniz varsa, bu alışverişi yapmak için doğru zamandayız gibi görünüyor.

Şöyle ki henüz üç dört yıl öncesine kadar 3-4 bin TL fiyatla satılan 82 ekran Full HD bir televizyonun fiyatı bugün 1,500 TL’ye kadar geriledi. Ayrıca bayram ve yılbaşı kampanyaları sayesinde bu rakamı ‘artı şu kadar taksit’e bölmek de mümkün.

Asıl konumuza dönersek, yukarıdaki girizgahı anlamlı bulur da ertelediğiniz alışverişinizi izleyen haftalarda yapmaya karar verirseniz, size birkaç tavsiyemiz olacak. Bunlara dikkat ediniz, yeni televizyonunuzdan azami keyfi alınız.

BOYUT ÖNEMLİ Mİ?
Evet, hem de çok! Şöyle ki, televizyonu küçük bir oturma odasında kullanacaksanız, sakın ola gidip 132 ekran bir panel TV almayın. Bu hem televizyon izleme zevkinizi düşürür, hem de hanehalkı olarak birkaç ay sonra göz ve baş ağrılarından şikayet etmenize neden olabilir. Dolayısıyla televizyonun ekran boyutuna göre izleme mesafesini doğru ayarlamakta fayda var. (Bilmeyenler için ara not: Ekran ebatı, ekranın bir köşesinden çaprazdaki köşeye olan uzaklıktır).

İlk adım olarak televizyonu koyacağınız odaya gidip televizyonu asacağınız duvarı tespit edin. Sonra koltukların o duvardan ne kadar uzakta durduğunu ölçün ve aşağıdaki tabloda sıraladığımız asgari izleme mesafesi tavsiyelerimize göz atın:

İkinci olarak izleme açınıza dikkat edin. Modeller veya LCD ve plazma arasında görüş açısı biraz farketmekle beraber, bizim tavsiyemiz ekrana en fazla 30 derece açıyla bakmanız. Elbette en çok izleme zevkini tam karşıdan izleyerek alırsınız. Geniş bir koltuk takımına kurulan kalabalık bir heyet halinde televizyon izliyorsanız, aday modeller arasında yandan görüş açısı en fazla olanını tercih edin.

Üçüncü olarak odadaki ışık ve pencereleri dikkate alın. Bol pencereli ve aydınlık salon ve odalarda gündüz televizyon izlerken televizyonun parlaklığını arttırmanız gerekecektir. Bu da elbette parlaklığı ve kontrastı görece yüksek cihazları seçmenizi gerektirir.

Hiç bir zaman televizyonunuzu pencerenin veya abajur gibi bir ışık kaynağının hemen önüne koymayın. Tam karşısında olması da ekranda ışık kaynağını yansımasını gösterir ve hem gözü hem keyfi bozar. En doğrusu, tavan aydınlatması kullanmak veya, ayaklı ışık kaynağı kullanıyorsanız, televizyonu ışığın ekranda yansıma yapmadığı kör bir noktaya yerleştirmek. Kapkaranlık ışıksız veya parıl parıl aydınlatılmış bir salonda uzun süre televizyon izlemeyin.

LCD Mİ, PLAZMA MI?

Hangisini isterseniz... Aslında ebat ve model yelpazesi son derece geniş olan LCD’ler pazarın büyük bölümünü ele geçirmiş durumda. Eskiden plazmaya kıyaslanarak dile getirilen ‘siyahlar doygun değil” eleştirisi de büyük ölçüde ortadan kalkmış görünüyor.

LCD: Halen en popüler ve kalıcı panel TV teknolojisi. Birkaç yıl öncesine kadar sadece 10-15 modelin olduğu Türkiye pazarında şu anda 200’e yakın model var. Temel olarak daha az arka ışığıyla daha parlak görüntü üretebiliyor ve çok aydınlık ortamlar için daha uygun görünüyor. Son zamanlarda geri ışığı olarak LED kullanılan daha ince ve parlak modeller de piyasaya sürülmeye başlandı.

Eskiden LCD'lerin tepki oranı plazmalara göre düşüktü ve çok hareketli sahnelerde görüntüde flulaşma olurdu. Bugün bu sorun da büyük ve prestijli üreticilerin modellerinde çözülmüş görünüyor. Ama yine de içinizin tamamen rahat etmesini istiyorsanız, görüntü yenileme oranı 100 Hz ve üstündeki cihazları seçin. Bilmeyenlere, LCD TV’lerin bilgisayar monitörü olarak da kullanılabildiğini belirtelim.

Plazma: Dev bir salonunuz varsa veya müstakil evinizde bir ‘sinema odası’ oluşturacaksanız, plazma sizin doğru seçenek. Çünkü küçük ve orta ebat sınıfında LCD’lerle yarışamayan plazma üreticileri, fiyat avantajına sahip oldukları büyük ebatlara yöneldi. LCD’ye kıyasla daha fazla enerji tüketse de büyük ebatlarda siyah doygunlukları hala çok tatmin edici ve hareketli görüntü toleransı iyi.

Kocaman ekrana uygun salonunuz var ama aşırı aydınlıksa, plazmadan uzak durmayı isteyebilirsiniz. Zira plazmaların ön camları, ortamdaki ışığı fena halde yanısıtır.

LED TV

LED: Hem LCD hem de plazmalara kıyasla daha ince, daha parlak, daha tasarruflu, hızlı görüntülerde daha keskin ve kasası inanılmaz ince. Henüz ergenlik dönemindeki LED teknolojisi bugün el yakıyor olabilir ama birkaç yıla kalmaz ucuzlama trendini elbette göreceğiz. Bütçeniz müsaitse ve yenilikleri en önce takip edenlerdenseniz, gönül rahatlığıyla LED alabilirsiniz. Yukarıda sıraladığımız optimum izleme ve konumlandırma tavsiyeleri elbette LED’ler için de geçerli.

TEMEL TEKNİK ÖZELLİKLER NELER?

Çözünürlük: Ekrandaki piksel sayısını gösterir. Bunlar bir el halısındaki ilmek sayısı gibidir ve sabit bir alanda ne kadar çok olursa o kadar iyidir. Full HD standardında ekranda enine 1920, boyuna 1080 pikselden oluşan satırlar bulunur. Bu da 1366x768 pikselli standart HD Ready televizyonlara göre daha ayrıntılı ve keskin görüntü demektir. HD yayınları alabiliyor, BluRay film izliyor veya PlayStation’da oyun oynuyorsanız Full HD ile HD Ready arasındaki farka hayran kalabilirsiniz.

Pikseller ne kadar çok olursa netlik o kadar yüksektir

Öte yandan bir Full HD televizyonu alıp kurduktan sonra ulusal kanallarımızdan birini açtığınızda, eskisiyle arasında pek bir fark göremeyeceksiniz. Çünkü yayının çözünürlük kalitesi neyse, televizyon da onu gösterir. Ancak gerek ulusal kanallar gerekse şifreli yayın yapan dijital yayın aktarıcılar hızla HD yayına adapte olmakta.

Son nokta, izleme mesafesi. Yukarıda bahsettiğimiz üzere televizyonu belirli bir mesafeden izlemek gerekir. Elbette bunun asgarisi olduğu gibi azamisi de var. Ortalama ebatta bir Full HD televizyonu 3.5 metreden fazla mesafeden izlerseniz, HD Ready olan bir TV’den farkı kalmaz. Çünkü gözünüz o mesafeden, ikisinin arasındaki detay farkını seçemez.

Görüntü yenilenme oranı: Ekrandaki görüntünün saniyede kaç kere yenilendiğini gösterir. Endüstri standardı 50-60 Hz olarak tespit edilse de bol aksiyonlu görüntülerde ekrandaki objelerin sınırlarının bulanıklaşması ve hareketi kolay takip edememek, firmaları 100 Hz ve üstüne çıkmaya yöneltti. Fiyatları diğerlerine göre biraz daha yüksek ama hareketlerdeki keskinlik bunun karşılığını veriyor.

Tepki oranı: Ekrandaki bir pikselin siyahtan (veya koyu griden) beyaza, sonra yeniden siyaha dönme hızını gösterir ve milisaniyeyle ölçülür. Bu süre ne kadar az olursa piksellerin ve dolayısıyla ekrandaki görüntünün renk değiştirmedeki hızı da iyileşir. Bu da renklerin daha canlı ve net olmasını sağlar. Mümkünse en az 8 ms, tercihen 4 ms, paranız varsa 2 ms televizyonları seçin.

Televizyonlarda kontrast kıyaslaması

Kontrast oranı: En parlak beyazla en koyu siyah arasındaki farktır, ne kadar yüksek olursa o kadar iyidir, daha doygun siyahlar, daha parlak beyazlar üretir. Ancak dikkat edilmesi nokta, ürünlerin bilgi formlarında verilen kontrast oranının ‘statik’ mi yoksa ‘dinamik’ mi olduğudur.

Statik kontrast oranı en parlakla en koyu arasında ‘tek bir andaki' farkı gösterir. Dinamik kontrast oranıysa bu ölçümü belirli bir zaman dilimi içinde yapar. Dinamik kontrast rakamı genellikle statik kontrast rakamının 4 katıdır. Örneğin, dinamik kontrastı 10,000 olan bir TV’nin verdiği görüntüdeki gerçek kontrast, statik kontrastı 4,000 olan bi TV’den daha iyi değildir.

Mağazaya gittiğinizde müşteri temsilcisinin övünerek “bu televizyonun 20,000 kontrast oranı var” demesine kanmayıp rakamın statik mi dinamik mi olduğunu sorun ve diğerleriyle bu şekilde kıyaslama yapın.

Billy Elliot (2000)

Can I put a tape on, Miss ?
All right,|if you must.
It's cush, isn't it ?
So, is there a story,then, Miss ?
Of course.
It's about a woman who's captured by an evil magician.
Sounds crap.
And this woman--|this beautiful woman...is forced to be a swan.Except for a few hours|every night...when she becomes alive.She becomes real again.And then one night..she meets this young prince,and he falls in love|with her.And she realizes...this is the one thing that will allow her...
to become a real woman|once more.So then what happens ?He promises to marry her|and then goes off with|someone else, of course.So she has to be|a swan for good ?|- She dies.
Because the prince|didn't love her ?Come on.|It's time to go.It's only|a ghost story.