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Here’s something you don’t see every day, Chauncey: A Finnish bluegrass band playing their version of AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” definitely not on the original instruments. Link: http://youtu.be/e4Ao-iNPPUc by … Continue reading
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A Vimeo user named Seccovan uploaded this well-done 3D CGI animation of the world envisioned in the Futurama television series. It runs only 30 seconds, but it’s nicely done using Autodesk’s 3Ds Max, augmented by plugins and other software. Futurama … Continue reading
Some friends involved in minor crime (street-corner sales of dodgy goods, that kind of thing) in London suddenly find themselves owing a lot of money to a dangerous mobster, so they decide to go for a one-time big score by … Continue reading
John Green has a gift for presenting a subject succinctly, as in the video below that runs under four minutes. Ostensibly talking to his brother Hank, a very successful entrepreneur, he talks very informatively about arguments for and against raising … Continue reading
Ronald Searle (1920-2011) was a brilliant British artist in pen and ink. Even as a captive of the Japanese during World War II, when he was forced into slave labor and became seriously ill, he managed to obtain paper and … Continue reading
A computer animated film about a prehistoric family forced to look for a new home when their cave is destroyed doesn’t sound too promising, so had my friend Jerry Lapidus not recommended it, I would have missed this, and I’ve … Continue reading
From various places on line. (Note that you don’t need to type the quotation marks shown below, and depending on what browser you use and how it’s configured, you can often type searches right into the address bar.) For useless … Continue reading
Last month Queen Elizabeth II toured the Game of Thrones production facility in Northern Ireland and among other things saw the notorious Iron Throne. She declined to sit, but she did give it a careful look, as you can see … Continue reading
Using camera phone telekinesis to affect another person. Possibly set up, but it looks like a real coincidence: Link: http://youtu.be/YmDXfqsG-Gw by … Continue reading
In passing in a previous post I erroneously said that investment income is free of Medicare tax in the U.S. As I should have remembered, that’s no longer true for high income people (such as single taxpayers making over $200,000 … Continue reading