Werner Herzog Reads Curious George

Ok, it’s not real­ly Wern­er Her­zog. Just a lit­tle play­ful satire. A guess at how the Ger­man direc­tor might reinterpret/read the chil­dren’s clas­sic Curi­ous George. This ver­sion is dark and exis­ten­tial.

via Abe Books

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Validation, or The Magic of Free Parking

Kurt Kuen­ne’s short film, “Val­i­da­tion,” has played at 34 film fes­ti­vals and won 17 awards. This 16 minute indie offers a “fable about the mag­ic of free park­ing” — mean­ing they’re talk­ing about “val­i­da­tion” in a larg­er sense than park­ing per se … We’ve added the clip to our YouTube favorites.

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A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything

This imag­i­na­tive bit was a stu­den­t’s final project for an art course. The flip­book, made entire­ly out of biro pens, was cre­at­ed with 2100 pages of draw­ings and took about 3 weeks to devel­op. Need­less to say, the stu­dent got an A.

Thanks to @kirstinbutler for flag­ging this one.

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Disruptive Technology: Student Brings Typewriter to Class

A lit­tle case of dis­rup­tive tech­nol­o­gy in Com­put­er Sci­ence 1301 at Geor­gia Tech…

via Andrew Baron

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Einstein’s Relativity: An Animated New Yorker Cartoon

In the past cou­ple of years, The New York­er has rolled out a series of ani­mat­ed car­toons, which puts in motion its famous car­toons. They can be watched iTunesYouTube or right on the web.

SNL Shames Goldman Sachs

Man, I love plu­to­crat humor in the morn­ing

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Stephen Colbert on Particle Physics

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Got­ta love com­e­dy that riffs on the Large Hadron Col­lid­er. I’ll have some more seri­ous things to say about the LHC in the com­ing weeks. In the mean­time, enjoy the com­ic bit. Have a good week­end…

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David Sedaris Guest DJ’s

These days, David Sedaris is the think­ing per­son­’s favorite fun­ny man. In the past, we have fea­tured his live read­ings of com­ic mate­r­i­al from When You are Engulfed in Flames. (See “Relat­ed Con­tent” below.) Today, we’re high­light­ing some­thing a lit­tle dif­fer­ent. On August 19th, Sedaris appeared as a guest DJ on KCRW, a radio sta­tion in Los Ange­les, and spun his favorite old records. You can lis­ten with the play­er below or here. Mean­while, if you want to hear more of KCR­W’s Guest DJ Project (which has fea­tured David Lynch, Jim­my Wales, and oth­er cul­tur­al icons), you can get the pod­cast here:  iTunesFeedWeb Site.

Relat­ed Con­tent:

Sedaris Reads “Solu­tion to Saturday’s Puz­zle”

David Sedaris Reads “Of Mice and Men”

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