Friday Ephemera
12 Glowing Men. Still angry, but now glowing. (h/t, Coudal.) // The Microsoft Surface Sphere. // Unnecessary knowledge. // The musical Pikachu. Oh, you’ll never tire of that. // Social skills 101 for Japan’s hikikomori. // A keyboard without keys. // Meet Gore-Al. // When galaxies collide (2). // The 50 megaton Tsar Bomba. “Its enormous size made the bomb impractical for warfare purposes.” (h/t, Things.) // Soviet atomic weapons tests. // Filmed effects of atomic weapons. // Details of warp drive remain somewhat sketchy. Requires energy equivalent to entire mass of Jupiter. // At last, the jetpack. // Zoom with Motorola. They’re saving the world. // Fallen. A meteor’s tale. // Beluga whales and bubble rings. // Guardian hypocrisy shock #37. // The periodic table of videos. // The periodic coffee table. // The table is melting. (h/t, Artblog.) // An archive of magazine first issue covers. // Heather MacDonald on maths and gender. // The political correctness of academic disciplines. // And, via The Thin Man, it’s Mr Fats Waller.
‘Al Gore – or, as he is known in his own language, Gore-Al – placed his son, Kal-Al, gently in the one-passenger rocket ship, his brow furrowed by the great weight he carried in preserving the sole survivor of humanity’s hubristic folly… “I will send him to a new planet, where he will, I hope, be raised by simple but kindly country folk and grow up to be a hero and protector to his adopted home.”‘
Brilliant.
£4750 for a coffee table is a bit steep, even if it does include the periodic table! Scientists must be too well paid…
Julia,
Maybe you could buy one in instalments and assemble it yourself. The individual sample boxes are a less daunting £25 – £150. And the tellurium looks rather nice. Or maybe something radioactive, to impress dinner guests.
Must… kill… pikachu.
“The individual sample boxes are a less daunting £25 – £150”
Probably easier to assemble than anything from Ikea, too…
But on the whole, I think I prefer the dripping paint table. Quite the conversation piece!
Interesting alternate take on 12 Angry Men here http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/03/12_angry_men_turns_50.html
It doesn’t pick up on the one really silly bit of counter evidence though. In the film we learn that since the knife is a flick knife it wouldn’t have been used to stab down. Ergo the boy didn’t do it. But the knife was a flick knife and it was used to stab down regardless of who the killer really was so the point is irrelevant.
Anna,
You must love Pikachu, like this dog does.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SPuPBS-VXE
I like the slow-mo. 😀
TDK,
“Fonda’s juror # 8 no doubt could have said with similar ease, ‘I’m not saying it wasn’t Islamic terrorists who plowed two planes into the WTC, but it’s possible’.”
Heh. I hadn’t thought of it quite that way before. I haven’t seen it in ages, but I remember the odd way that the evidence first damns, then exonerates, equally dramatically, which is, well, a wee bit implausible. And I remember some fine acting and plenty of atmosphere. I may have to dig it out again and take another look…
David, you’ve gone up in the wikio ranking. You’re a big cheese now.
I know. I’m practically royalty. Soon I won’t be seen dead talking to the likes of you.
For this Friday.
http://www.vimeo.com/1223566
Friday afternoon links
They went to Russia to build socialism.Dems say they’re OK with $10 gas.Hey, John! You can be a celeb too. Moderate VoiceWhy the growing Gulf dead zone?What if Iraq works out? VDHMonitoring the enemy’s broadcasts. No PasaranSome real numbers on PC in educ