Hanukkah in Santa Monica
A bit late for the holiday, but still, without a doubt, the best Hanukkah song ever written by a Harvard math professor!
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If the Earth had rings
Found this tonight while aimlessly cruising the Web, and it's too good not to share--at least if you're an old sci-fi geek like me. It also raises a few questions. How do you suppose our various cultures would have explained the presence of rings in the sky? Would it have precluded the emergence of the flat-Earth myth? Fun to think about...
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It wouldn't be Thanksgiving without...
There are two things that no Thanksgiving would be complete without. One is the Twilight Zone marathon on KTLA; the other is, of course, Alice's Restaurant. Enjoy!
(Thanks to Andy Ihnatko for the link to the video!)
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California Zeppelin
Saw this in the sky on Friday as I was driving home from work. How cool is that?
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They come in two pieces!
This is a business model sorely lacking here in Southern California, and one we desperately need...
(Thanks to Steve Robinson for the link, and you can see the video of how it was made over at his blog, Pithless Thoughts.)
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In a world where the Berlin Wall never fell
I love counterfactuals, and here’s an example of why. What if East Germany still existed? What would 21st century GDR television look like? Here’s one man’s take on how the German Democratic Republic (in German, Deutsche Demokratische Republik or DDR) would start its broadcast day, and it’s astonishingly well done. Be sure to watch for the historical montage at the end, with Walter Ulbricht, the raising of the GDR flag, and the World Clock and TV tower from the Alexanderplatz. Frighteningly good stuff.
(And, before anyone gets upset, I’m not trying to glorify East Germany. Yes, I know the GDR was a brutal Communist dictatorship. I know that well—not only am I a trained historian, I saw the GDR with my own two eyes in the 1980s. None of which takes away from the fact that the person who did this video did one hell of a job.)
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