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Johann Sebastian Bach, “Sonata in G, Andante”
Love this track. I saw it performed live in London by a very good pair of musicians and they really killed it. This version is good but the performers combined the mathematical precision with a bit of life to make something more of it.
Transfer of Napoleon’s ashes aboard the Belle Poule, October 15, 1840 (Louis Eugène Gabriel Isabey)
Yes, it was fun this week to watch the teabaggers complain how the media underestimated the size of their march, “How can you say there were only 60,000 of us? We filled the entire mall!” Yes, because you’re fat. One whale fills the tank at Sea World, that doesn’t make it a crowd.
Wow, I just finished playing this fantastic little game. Check out that screenshot – and you go through like four more layers than it shows. Absolutely great.
How come I’ve never heard of this unbelievably cool store? Too bad everything is so goddamn expensive. I’m buying some stuff anyway.
That effect is so creepy. Always makes me dizzy when they use it in movies.
Dan Brown’s 20 worst sentences
Of one: “It has the ring of utter ineptitude.”
Hilarious rundown of the items and characters in The Legend of Zelda, pointing out the obviously ridiculous nature of many of them. Fun reading.
The Spaniards that day sustained great loss and damage, having many of their shippes shot thorow and thorow, and they discharged likewise great store of ordnance against the English.
Sir Francis Drake’s ship was pierced with shot aboue forty times, and his very cabben was twice shot thorow, and about the conclusion of the fight the bed of a certaine gentleman lying weary thereupon, was taken quite from under him with the force of a bullet.
Likewise, as the Earle of Northumberland and Sir Charles Blunt were at dinner upon a time, the bullet of a demy-culvering brake thorow the middest of their cabben, touched their feet, and strooke downe two of the standers-by, with many such accidents befalling the English shippes, which it were tedious to rehearse.
Wow, that’s interesting. Viewing the contributions to an open source project in accelerated real time, if that makes any sense. Click through and watch it in HD.
