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