Lindy Hop showdown
An evening pause: While our politicians fight it out in Congress, let’s watch a different kind of showdown.
Tag: entertainment
Computer to take on Jeopardy! champs for $1 million
A computer is going to take on two Jeopardy! champs for $1 million. Two comments from this story:
The computer was finally defeated when it said “Windows has finished updating your computer. Rebooting in 14 seconds.”
and
“Just what do you think you’re doing, Dave?”
A computer is going to take on two Jeopardy! champs for $1 million. Two comments from this story:
The computer was finally defeated when it said “Windows has finished updating your computer. Rebooting in 14 seconds.”
and
“Just what do you think you’re doing, Dave?”
The Ultimate Showdown
The climax to The Roaring Twenties
An evening pause: The Roaring Twenties (1939). Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney were often cast as gangsters. However, their film personas’ were very different. Bogart’s characters generally showed a trace of weakness in his soul, while Cagney’s characters were rock solid no matter how much things fell apart. The finale of this classic Hollywood film, in which each man dies, illustrates this difference quite starkly.
My Blackberry is not working
Peter Kogler computer animation in museum
The Corrs – No Frontiers
Popeye – The Man on the Flying Trapeze
Large Hadron Rap
Tumbleweeds
Ultimate luck compilation
Dan Fogelberg – Leader of the Band
Andre Rieu playing Auld Lang Syne
OKLAHOMA! OK! – Hugh Jackman 1999
Pearl Harbor – Tennessee Piano and Orchestra
Buy a Batmobile
Buy your very own Batmobile! Key quote: “The car also has a fully functioning flame thrower.”
Buy your very own Batmobile! Key quote: “The car also has a fully functioning flame thrower.”
Jib Jab – So long to ya 2010
Mike Oldfield – Music of the Spheres
The joy of stats
An evening pause: As we approach the end of the this first decade of the 21st century, let’s take a look back at the progress of the past two hundred years, illustrated by the progress of a single graph and animated in a way you’ve never seen before.
A Christmas Carol (1951)
An evening pause: Scrooge awakes on Christmas Day. From probably the best movie version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (1951), starring Alastair Sim in an astonishing performance.
How Kenny Loggins Ruined Christmas
Katie Melua – Have yourself a merry little Christmas
How to play in the desert
Winter Solstice in the Arctic
Tom Seaver tribute
An evening pause: For those who remember the 1969 Miracle Mets (Happy birthday Lloyd!), here is a tribute compilation of newsclips, celebrating Tom Seaver’s Hall of Fame career. Ya gotta believe! (Though Tug McGraw said it, it was Seaver more than anyone else who made it happen.)