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≡ Category: Astronomy, Physics, Video - Science | ≅ 2 Comments
They’re not your ordinary black holes. They’re bigger. They’re badder. They are supermassive black holes capable of producing the largest eruptions since the Big Bang. But, despite their massive size, we’re just starting to understand these forces operating in the center of galaxies sometimes billions of light years from Earth. The documentary above (running about [...]
≡ Category: Books, Literature | ≅ Leave a Comment
Some geniuses have taken two literary classics and reworked them as retro video games. The Great Gatsby Game, obviously based on the classic by F. Scott Fitzgerald, reworks the game in vintage Nintendo Style. The clip above gives you a little preview, but you can always play the game right here. Then, for a little more [...]
≡ Category: Books, Literature | ≅ 2 Comments
Jack Kerouac wrote On the Road in three very short weeks in 1951. But then it took six years for the book, famously written on a long scroll, to reach the reading public in 1957. Shortly after its publication, critics were at least quick to recognize what the book meant. One New York Times reviewer called [...]
≡ Category: Film, Life, Television | ≅ 1 Comment
It’s a quick glimpse into a bygone era, a more innocent era, before TMZ, Perez Hilton and The Superficial made being a celebrity a more difficult proposition. The date is August 1965. The place is Malibu. And the people? Some of the biggest stars in Hollywood — Paul Newman, Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, [...]
≡ Category: Comedy, Television | ≅ Leave a Comment
The improv/comedy series Whose Line Is It Anyway? aired on British television for a good decade, from 1988 to 1998. Then it made its way to America and enjoyed an eight-season run. Thanks to some dedicated fans, you can now watch the complete US and UK series online. Find Season One of the UK series here, [...]
≡ Category: Animation, Art | ≅ 4 Comments
Long before Ed Catmull became president of Walt Disney Animation Studios, he headed up the computer graphics group at Lucasfilm, which eventually spun into Pixar, the maker of so many cutting edge animated films. And before all of that, Catmull went to graduate school at the University of Utah, where he cut his teeth on emerging [...]
≡ Category: Animation, Google, Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
Freddie Mercury, the voice behind so many Queen classics (Bohemian Rhapsody, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, We Are the Champions), would have turned 65 today, an age that means official retirement for most, but not for rock ‘n roll legends. To celebrate the milestone, Google has adorned its homepage with a collage of Freddie doodles, [...]
≡ Category: Sci Fi | ≅ 9 Comments
In 1964, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the futurist and sci-fi writer best known for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, peered into the future, to the year 2000, and described what he saw. And a pretty good guess it was. Ours would be a world in which… We could be in instant contact with each other, wherever [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
Early in his career, Alfred Hitchcock began making small appearances in his own films. The cameos sometimes lasted just a few brief seconds, and sometimes a little while longer. Either way, they became a signature of Hitchcock’s filmmaking, and fans made a sport of seeing whether they could spot the elusive director. From 1927 to 1976, [...]
≡ Category: Art, Technology | ≅ 4 Comments
Microcoptervideo is a Spanish company that specializes in shooting videos using small remote-control helicopters called “octocopters.” (You can see the one used in this video here; and if you want to build one yourself, you can find instructions here.) Since these small helicopters go places where normal cameras can’t, these newfangled cameras can offer views [...]
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