This is pretty amazing photography. This guy pops a water balloon and takes a picture before the water can really collapse. Over at NPR. Current Mood = AMAZED

In other public programming news, my local PBS affiliate KCET has suddenly become a douchebag. Apparently they received a $50 million donation that stipulated that the funds could not be used ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday, Mr. Shakespeare! For you, the discerning reader, I present a re-post of Alan Rickman reading my favorite sonnet (which is sonnet 130). For those that missed it the first time around, you can find the album on iTunes. It's called When Love Speaks and it features a number of famous Brits reading the sonnets (and other Shakespeare ( Read more... )

This song reminds me of high school. My school was kind of nifty in that every year they would split the school into two teams (Red and Gold) and each team would put on a play complete with dance/drill and singing. There were a bunch of off-stage categories like costumes, props, etc. And one year our ending song was this one. No, I have no idea ( Read more... )

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I was playing Oregon Trail in all its Apple II goodness! You need to use Internet Explorer to play the games.