Rants at a picnic…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvg5kcx–8Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc0uNuQtxP8

This episode one brilliant! Who wrote the poem?

NOT FOR CHILDREN!
Patrick… excuse me… SIR Patrick Stewart’s Hamlet is a real nightmare. I think this should come across as scary to you as the original came to Shakespeare’s audiences in his time. The script is unchanged, but the setting is quite modern.
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Contact, directed by Vladimir Tarasov. One of the masters of Russian animation!
I saw this when I was a kid. I wish I could find more of the ones I loved back then. A few years ago, I was humming the tune from this film, and my friend started making references to some movie I hadn’t seen. That’s how I found out everyone else knows this tune already from a movie called The Godfather.

I watched this many years ago on “O Canada!” I was able to find it on the NFB website, but they have it listed as educational material, which is not available to the general public. That seems really odd considering how I was introduced to it to begin with.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMJT7LHmClU

Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle from CUSEC on Vimeo.

Minesweeper : William H. Pine, William C. Thomas : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oy1g4i79fo

This is just the first of the five links you will need to watch it all, but once you are there, the others won’t be hard to find.

I’ve been a huge fan of Simon and Garfunkel all my life. I remember being allowed to stay up way past my bedtime to watch the Concert in Central Park on PBS. Later, it would be one of the only albums I ever purchased for myself on cassette. I know their entire catalog by heart. I hope I get to see them one day.