Why movies cost so much. (MLYT!) Let us pause, in our respective busy days, to celebrate the
gag reel. Are you ready? House season
2 and
3 (and bonus
valley girl take); Grey's Anatomy seasons
3 and
4,
Back to the Future,
Star Trek (2009),
Star Trek (1969),
Star Trek (IV),
Star Trek (TNG),
Star Wars (original),
Star Wars ("1"),
Star Wars ("2"),
Star Wars ("3"),
Step Brothers,
Men in Black,
LOTR,
POTC,
POTC 2,
POTC 3,
Knocked Up,
40 Year Old Virgin,
Superbad,
Hot Fuzz,
Yes Man,
Bruce Almighty,
Liar Liar, and
many others.
posted by e.e. coli at 9:33 AM Nov 30 2009 - 64 comments [186 favorites]
TheSmartAss.info's suite of Java emulators allows smooth, in-browser playback of literally
thousands of old-school video games:
517 Atari titles,
148 for DOS,
636 Game Boy games (and
410 for Game Boy Color),
2,019 (!) NES titles,
238 GameGear games,
802 Sega Genesis titles, and
284 for the Sega Master System. Highlights include
Space Invaders,
Frogger,
Galaga,
Pitfall!,
Super Mario Bros.,
The Legend of Zelda,
Metroid,
SimCity,
Zero Wing,
Duke Nukem,
Sonic the Hedgehog,
Aladdin,
Earthworm Jim,
Pokemon, and
Metal Gear Solid. Use
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posted by Rhaomi at 11:12 AM Nov 30 2009 - 54 comments [182 favorites]
"Fun To Imagine" is a BBC series from 1983 featuring theoretical physicist Richard Feynman thinking aloud. What is fire? How do rubber bands work? Why do mirrors flip left-right but not up-down? All is explained in his lovely meanderingly lucid manner.
posted by mhjb at 11:07 PM Dec 15 2009 - 25 comments [158 favorites]
I'm not one to obsess over music videos, but
this one by one SUGIMOTO Kousuke may just be the most dense, action-packed chaotic adventure ever packed into 3 minutes 28 seconds. I've watched it a dozen times already; it's like popcorn. For added high-bandwidth goodness, see his
other video, which seems to recapitulate all of human history and the downfall of the Beatles - while you do, I'm going to upgrade my brain. I need some higher clock speed if I'm going to watch these again.
posted by Michael Roberts at 8:56 PM Dec 6 2009 - 69 comments [133 favorites]
Abandoned in a hat in the middle of a snowdrift as a newborn, rescued by a woodsman and guarded by a lioness, stolen and raised by a wood nymph, instructed in the ways of all the languages of the animals as a child, on the threshold of manhood he visited medieval Europe, feudal Japan, and Arabian markets to learn the inherent evil of humanity. For his insistence on toymaking, he was terrorized and repeatedly captured by a race determined to corrupt young minds, until his immortal protector came out to defend him with a laser-shooting axe which eradicated the malevolent culture. But can that same protector defend his ward's life to the likes of the Commander of the Wind Demons? The Life and Adventures of Santa Clause, a Rankin/Bass production, Part
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5].
posted by Navelgazer at 8:12 PM Dec 7 2009 - 45 comments [67 favorites]
"Modern societies have tended to take science for granted as a way of knowing, ordering and controlling the world. Everything was subject to science, but science itself largely escaped scrutiny. This situation has changed dramatically in recent years. Historians, sociologists, philosophers and sometimes scientists themselves have begun to ask fundamental questions about how the institution of science is structured and how it knows what it knows."
How to Think About Science is a 24-part series from CBC Radio's
Ideas, featuring interviews with
Steven Shapin,
Ian Hacking,
Bruno Latour, and others. The streaming audio links on the show's website seem to be out of commission, but direct links to all of the episodes can be found
here.
posted by bewilderbeast at 7:35 PM Nov 27 2009 - 77 comments [66 favorites]
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