New Yorker cartoon

McCain "Get Out Of Gaffe Free Card"

From Bedazzled...

Nike Courage ad with "All These Things That I've Done" by The Killers

Nike must pay Ronaldo and Rooney a lot.

ABBA-Hey Hey Helen Live Color

Lightning at 5000 frames per second

How to build a Cathedral, part 12

The cathedral is scheduled to open on 25 September 2008. Almost all the work being done now is on the interior. You can now walk up to the outside of the building. Here you can see a ramp up the front door, and a crucifix over the main entry.

Humanity doomed

A top Go professional (Myungwan Kim) lost a handicap game of Go to the MoGo computer program. For years Go has been the game where a strong amateur could beat any computer. But now, through better algorithms rather than faster hardware a computer is competitive. In this case the computer did have a huge advantage in that it got to play 9 stones unopposed at the start of the game. But any win against a pro is a huge advance. The closing position is above with black (MoGo) winning. The game is here in sgf format.

Who are the best singing drummers?

First of all, what does this mean? I think it's drummers who sing and drum at the same time. So that makes it easy. The best three singing drummers are:

1: Grant Hart (of Husker Du)

2: Levon Helm (of The Band)

3: Karen Carpenter

Then there are drummers who can (and do) sing.

• Phil Collins
• Robert Wyatt
• Mo Tucker
• Roger Taylor (of Queen)
• Denis Wilson (of the Beach Boys)
• Dave Grohl
• Bobby Gillespie
• Ringo Starr
• That guy from Paper Lace

Then there's the special subcategory of drummers who shout:

• Yamantaka Eye (Boredoms)
• Yoshimi P-We (Boredoms, OOIOO)
• Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins)

David Tennant as Hamlet with sonic screwdriver

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