I recently discovered the Numberphile YouTube channel, and have been quite impressed with it. My favorite piece so far is this one:

This fan-made tribute to the series is excellent. If you haven’t watched the entire series already, don’t click through.
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For whatever reason, I’m struggling with my writing schedule at the moment, and changes I’m trying to make haven’t worked so far. Thus, this week all I have is another video:

Either I’ll figure it out and proper articles will start appearing regularly again, or I’ll have to reconsider the schedule entirely.

Another light week. Have a mixture of Cornetto flavors:

This is all I have for you this week:

No proper post this week. You might be interested in Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, which I just discovered and find oddly entertaining. Some is hit-and-miss, but for the most part it’s good.

I’m not sure why, but I tend to like hearing comedians talk about their work—sometimes I prefer listening to them in more relaxed situations than doing what’s generally considered comedy. I prefer the prospect of watching Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee to the prospect of watching episodes of Seinfeld that I haven’t seen, and I’m not sure why.

You might also like Talking Funny, a discussion about comedy featuring Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Louis CK, and Ricky Gervais.

Don’t watch this if you haven’t seen seasons one and two of Breaking Bad yet.

(Also see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcMm6TJoYL0)

I’ve only been away a week, but this really makes me miss San Francisco:

[On vacation, so shorter posts for the next while.]

I mentioned this on Facebook earlier in the week, but it’s important enough to also write a post about.
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No real blog post this week, my apologies. Instead you get this:

I fear my occasional mirror dialogues may have a similar emotional arc to this video:

Cinema’s Greatest Mirror Pep Talk from FilmDrunkDotCom on Vimeo.
Created by Oliver Noble for FilmDrunk.com. For more information, including full list of movies, see http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2011/07/new-supercut-cinemas-greatest-mirror-pep-talks.

Newspaper headlines from The Simpsons:

MK12 | Follow the Sun | 2011 from MK12 on Vimeo.

Maybe it’s shooting fish in a barrel, but I thought this was well done:

I’m pretty sure this is a piece of viral marketing, but even so, it’s too cool not to post:

I find this video, of a diver entering the ash-covered Nahuel Huapi Lake in Argentina, eerily disturbing:

This is beautiful:

CASSINI MISSION from Chris Abbas on Vimeo.

This has been out a while, but is awesome and worth watching. Background: Newsweek listed Grand Rapids, Michigan, as one of America’s “top 10 dying cities”, and Grand Rapids made this in response:

This is a rather cool video:

3-Way Street from ronconcocacola on Vimeo.

I gotta say, cyclists in NYC seem to be significantly crazier than cyclists here. It’s probably necessary given New York traffic, but still.

Another fantastic list. I love it, even though I think the very last one is terrible:

This has been a public service announcement.

I think this is great: