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Wassup Holmes

Surfin' Bird — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:14:43 -0800

Wassup Holmes!? Famous Last Nerds demonstrate how fun Classical Rap can be. More of their videos: famouslastnerds.com

CalSky map to find Comet Holmes/17P

spock — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:00:53 -0800

Here's an excellent map if you want to see Comet Holmes/17P tonight (the comet that, until a couple of nights ago you would have needed a pretty good-sized telescope to even see. Then (out of the blue, as it were) it unexpectedly brightened by over 1,000,000 times to become an easy object for your naked eye –even with the nearly full moon in the sky). I did not know about CalSky but (despite some less-than-attractive web design) is truly the best of the web for online astronomy info and sky maps! With the map above, finding the comet is dead simple. Just follow these directions. Click on the map link above and then zoom out a few clicks until you see the "W" of the constellation Cassiopeia in the upper right corner of the picture. Now print it out and take it outside. Rotate the paper 90 degrees counter-clockwise, so the "w" is now in the upper left. Look very high up in the north and you should see the "w". Now look lower and more to the northeast and you will see a small right triangle. The one that is not part of the constellation Perseus is Comet Holmes/17P (currently a Magnitude 3 object). In binoculars it will look like a fuzzy star. Congrats for finding it!

Приходит watson, игра afoot!

jbickers — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:25:18 -0800

Sherlock Holmes and the Murder of Lord Waterbrook. Excellent new Russian animation (well, kinda new, anyway). Here's part 2.

House and Holmes

Lush — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:36:24 -0800

Is Dr. Gregory House, a gleefully misanthropic diagnostician of infectious diseases (played by the endlessly brilliant Hugh Laurie), the modern-day counterpart of Sherlock Holmes? There's plenty of connections * to read into, starting most obviously with the play on words: Holmes is a homonym of "homes", which is a plural synonym of "house".

Cruising for a bruising

BrodieShadeTree — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:53:16 -0800

Has anyone else noticed actor Tom Cruise going more and more wacky in public? Is his love affair with the hot-young-actress really a sham? Is this a PR stunt run dangerously wild, or Scientology in action? Oprah's scared, are you? The folks at FreeKatie.net think you should be.

Quite a three pipe metafilter post.

nthdegx — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 03:11:20 -0800

Sherlock Holmes: the quotations; the pipes; the author (the public house named after him - the worst in Scotland, judging by the comments); the top ten lists; the vulcan; the city; the monographs; the magazine; the marvelous stories, of course; and more.