The Somewhat Ambitious

/Luke

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Contrary to Homer’s (the Simpson, not the ancient Greek poet) suggestion that all movies are better if you speed them up, I’m starting to think that the key to comedic glory is locked in replaying things at half pace. In particular, if you replay footage involving Jeff Goldblum at half pace. Or, more specifically, if [...]

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If this doesn’t reduce you to tears, you’re probably a robot (I’m looking at you, Luke. Does this make you “feel”?), in which case, I HOPE YOU RUST.
/Paul

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There was a really awkward moment back in Year 11 physics when we were having rainbows explained to us and the resident fundamentalist Christian in our class piped up with the fairly controversial suggestion that rather than rainbows being produced via the simple diffraction of light through water droplets, they were instead a gift from [...]

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Here’s a very lucid and accessible, but nonetheless brain smashing explanation of the concept of ten-dimensional space. It isn’t the exact mathematical model that certain aspects of string theory rely on, but it’ll give you some vague idea of what they’re talking about.

The best part about sting theory? To prove or disprove any [...]

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This morning on the Breakfast Show, I discussed:
- How a Japanese man faked a kidnapping to get a Nintendo Wii, and the possibility that Japanese appliances don’t actually talk, but are accompanied by prankster ventriloquists.
- The viability of the first impending commercial jetpack, and why jumping out of trees with umbrellas doesn’t work.
- The new [...]

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Given that the productive core of the Internet is comprised largely of nerds, nerd wannabes and failed nerds, I can see this video getting a frankly ludicrous amount of airplay. Basically the hip young things at CERN have taken the principles and projects of the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland and rendered them in hip-hop [...]

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In one of the more bizarre moments of synchronicity I’ve experienced in quite some time, within a 12 hour period two separate people directed me to two different ads for 1980s Soviet-era Estonian food products, both of which were made by the same director. After doing a bit more YouTube browsing, I’ve deduced that the [...]

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The new Bond trailer, for Quantum of Solace, looks absolutely amazing. However, it lacks one key element.
007KIN from Voodooray on Vimeo.
Voodooray is either a genius or… yeah, he’s probably a bit of a genius. If halfway through QOS someone referes to James as agent 00M, I’ll giggle excitedly. Three million other viewers will probably write [...]

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To my mind, it’s been a good year for Sesame Street based Youtube re-works. As opposed to last year, which belonged to that godforsaken ‘You Are A Pirate’ song. Whew. There was a time when I was watching that pretty much once a day… It was a dark time… Maybe not William S. Burroughs shooting [...]

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