Things Are Tough All Over
Even evil galactic overlords have their problems.
Wes Phillips
Manualism
A demonstration of the art of manualism. The well known winter holiday tune "Sleigh Ride" by Leroy Anderson is played simply by squeezing air through the hands.
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What's in Your Beer?
Unless it's produced according to the Reinheitsgebot of 1516, your beer may contain betaglucanase, ammonia caramel, rhoiso-alpha acids, sulphur dioxide, protease, amyloglucosidase, or propylene glycol alginate. Yum!
Speaking of Beer
Cliff Clavin 'splains it all.
First Person Ever on TV Is Dead
Elma G. Farnsworth, wife of electronic TV's inventor Philo T. Farnsworth, is dead at 98. She has been called the "mother of television" because of her technical drawings of the early Farnsworth experiments, which are now ensconced in the Smithsonian.
12 Iconic Designs
Business Week lauds 12 modern products that so perfectly encapsulated new manufacturing techniques or materials that they remain classics years later. It's a strange list.
Worst Case Scenario
Innocent children, scary music, a sense of overwhelming dread . . . and a sky full of reanimated zombies descending from balloons. What more could you ask of cinema?
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News on the, Ummm, Move
The NHS Tayside feels you probably need potty training.
50 Worst Things to Happen to Rock'n'Roll
I don't completely agree, but it's a good list.
Reefer Madness
Not that I indulge, but I find this article in The Economist on cannabis fascinating—and depressing. Despite our FDA's recent findings that cannabis has no medical value when smoked (a charge motivated more by our "War on Some Drugs" than the facts, it seems), researchers are increasingly finding more ways in which it may be beneficial.