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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 at the time this movie was released in 1974 they’d…

  • 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 help with the chilling of the bones. Update The l…

  • 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 Twitter so here’s a cached version to save you the dis…

  • 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 how animals like bees perceive the world.…

  • 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 🤘…

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