Two Trailers: Color Me Obsessed - A Film About The Replacements

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More: The Replacements - Live Archive Project (Bootlegs)

Slice of Pi: How to Remember the First 15 Digits

By way of sci-fi author and mathenaut Rudy Rucker’s Facebook wall comes this:

One way to remember the first few digits of pi is to count the letters in the words of this phrase:

“How I need a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics.”


Text by Gareth Branwyn

[Image via FreakingNews]

Lost in Translation?

New Yorker Article by Roland Kelts

"Translation is a matter of linguistic technique… which naturally ages as the particulars of a language change. While there are no undying works, on principle there can be no undying translations. It is therefore imperative that new versions appear periodically in the same way that computer programs are updated. At the very least this provides a broader spectrum of choices, which can only benefit readers."  -- Haruki Murakami

Wikipedia: List of British Words Not Widely Used In The United States

Via Boing Boing

The Joy of Books

Out of Print - Author Unknown

The Savage Wit and Wisdom of Mark E. Smith

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Bonus Humor Video: Fall Fans' Round Table (German with Subtitles)

Blondie - Heart Of Glass (Stretched 7" Version)

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