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Stephen Hawking on the origin of the universe and time:

Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end.

Stephen Hawking doing a Steven Wright impersonation. That I had to see!

(via Slashdot)

I’m sure there’s some insightful commentary to be made here, but I think Lowell Bergman’s version of the video above for PBS says it all.

(via Austin)

Now that we’re on the subject of 80s stars, here’s what Kirk Cameron of Growing Pains is appearing in these days. This is a bona-fide video from The Way of the Master, a Christian ministry headed by Ray Comfort.

I think they’re taking the Scopes Monkey Trial a bit too literally.

Also, if bananas won’t cut it, they can throw peanut butter at it as well.

(via RichardDawkins.Net)

Since Marcos brought up 90210…

From

to

As Robert Wuhl would say, “I shit you not”.

Top 10 Child Actresses from 80s TV Shows Who Grew Up To Be Hotties

P.S. Wow, someone had the temerity to put Punky Brewster on DVD!?!? And not one, but three seasons!?!?

Note to self as I embark upon the great PPT crusade.

Presentation Zen

Darwin’s Rottweiler is 66 today. I believe that’s a lot in dog-years. Damn, The Selfish Gene was a long time ago! (I guess the fact that he was auctioning the typewriter he wrote it on was a big hint) Anyways, to the man who changed my own fight for rationalism from drunken boxing to jiu-jitsu (the metaphor is more apropos than you’d think), happy birthday!

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Who better than James T. Kirk to usher “The Wave of the Future”.

“Look kids, a colored bar graph!”

I opened up my computer today and as usual checked out the BBC News page. Apparently the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, was in Baghdad doing a press conference with Nouri Maliki when the building they were in got hit by a mortar.

What shocked me wasn’t Ban’s reaction, which was absolutely normal cowering. What left me speechless was Maliki’s reaction, or rather, his non-reaction. Watch the video:

BBC News Video

You can just see Maliki’s shoulder line to the left of the video… Watch how he remains motionless. Even the cameraman shuddered the shot.

This is, perhaps, the best of signs or the worst of signs about one’s government: a mortar attack does not phase your prime minister one single degree.

For all my friends who are aspiring filmmakers (yes, the both of you)…

From David O. Russell comes an example of how brilliance without tact is no genius at all. This is from I Heart Huckabees in 2004.

His previous movie, Three Kings, is one of my all-time favorites, from the use of Ektachrome, to the exploding cow, to the “innards” shot. But apparently even in that movie he almost got into a fistfight with George Clooney. Clooney’s quote :

“Will I work with David ever again? Absolutely not. Never. Do I think he’s tremendously talented and do I think he should be nominated for Oscars? Yeah.”