Lee Iacocca goes off on political leaders, specifically W and his cohorts, in his new book Where Have All the Leaders Gone? Urban Legends has an excellent excerpt.
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
What If the Beatles Were Irish?
Roy Zimmerman’s music video What If the Beatles Were Irish? is pretty funny…
The Eye of Argon
Jim Theis’ science fiction “novel” The Eye of Argon has to be read to be believed:
The Eye of Argon was published in 1970 in OSFAN, the journal of the Ozark SF Society, issue number 10. Photocopies – invariably with the last page missing – circulated for decades, and it became a regular sf convention challenge to read Jim Theis’s mangled prose with a straight face. This HTML document is based on the standard ASCII text of the story, widely available on line. In the January 2005 issue of The New York Review of Science Fiction it was revealed that a complete copy of OSFAN #10 had been unearthed in the Jack Williamson SF Library at Eastern New Mexico University. Thanks to the collection administrator Gene Bundy, the missing half-page of text appeared at last in NYRSF #198, February 2005, and has been inserted below.
Jim Theis himself, who was 16 when “The Eye of Argon” first appeared, reportedly died circa 2001 at age 48. He will be long remembered in sf fandom.
MetaFilter points out an MST3Kd version as well :-).
High Speed Art: Bruce Lee
Phil Hansen’s “High Speed Art” series is pretty cool; check out Bruce Lee (IFILM video).
Robins Air Force Base Museum of Aviation
Last week I took a training class near Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, about two hours south of Atlanta. I had a chance to tour its Museum of Aviation and was very impressed. There were several dozen warbirds located outside, and three hangars/buildings had almost as many aircraft inside, along with lots of interesting exhibits. If you’re ever down that way, I highly recommend visiting.
I of course took a lot of pictures of the aircraft and have uploaded them to the DrikoLand Gallery. I’m also slowly adding them to a flickr set. Enjoy!
Lightsaber Combat
Today I happened upon a surprisingly thorough Wikipedia article on lightsaber combat in Star Wars. I figured I’d see just how geeky a post I could come up with… 😉
Mindy Kaling Interview
The Onion’s A.V. Club has a fun interview with Mindy Kaling (Kelly from The Office).
Mathematics in Movies
The web site Mathematics in Movies is a pretty nice collection of math-related movie clips.
Name That Hair Metal Band!
Entertainment Weekly’s game Name That Hair Metal Band! was pretty fun, although I didn’t get the perfect score I’d hoped for. 🙁 Damn you, Cinderella! 😉
25 Best Rock Rumors Ever
Check out Rolling Stone’s List of the 25 Best Rock Rumors Ever. I’d heard of most of these, but a couple were new to me…
