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• Merry Christmas from 1970s Indian Santa Claus Features two late legends, Sanjeev Kumar (Santa) and Kishore Kumar (singer). Not sure who advised the former to strike a “BRO WHAT’S EVEN GOING ON” expression throughout the song. Wondered what became of the kids in the video. Assuming they were ~10…
• The Trailer for "28 Years Later" is Simply Spectacular Best I’ve seen in recent memory. Features the poem “Boots” by Rudyard Kipling, read with this bone-chilling pitch and cadence by a chap named Taylor Holmes in 1915. Here’s the track by itself. Sounds like it was taken from a record; the noise doesn’t…
• Libraries that Look like Tilda Swinton Not sure what else to add here, other than my head reeling with “How the heck does one even think up this subject?”. And appreciating how the Internet can be such an amazing forum for collective weirdness and joy. Speaking of fora, the link’s on Twit…
• Musician Doubles BPM up to a Trillion Not completely unsurprising, but yeah: I was struck by how it’s essentially a continuous tone after about 2,000 BPM. Makes one wonder if anything in the Universe is really continuous or if all of it is fundamentally discrete. Also makes you wonder ho…
• A $300, Fully-Functional Microscope Design by IBM Super-cool. I look forward to bookmarking this, telling myself that I’ll finally put Pi Zero to good use, and never doing this 🤘…
• Note 0002 Perhaps not as incredibly astounding as this overlay of Spectre1 on the opening credits of the movie but this one of How to Disappear Completely over a few scenes from Lost in Translation just fits somehow. From the comments: “It was a wise decision…

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  There Are Moms Way Worse Than YouGlenn Boozan (2022)

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  Black HoleCharles Burns (1995-2005)

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  Se7enDavid Seidman and Ralph Tedesco (2008)

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  The Strangest ManGraham Farmelo (2009)

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  Adventures of the Magic Monkey Along the Silk RoadsEvelyn Nagai-Berthrong and Anker Odum (1983)

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  TogetherLuke Adam Hawker (2021)

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  Ice HavenDaniel Clowes (2005)

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  Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One’s BooksGeorges Perec (2020)

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