Wheels within Wheels

Not this sort of pie:

This sort of pi.

Link via Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.

I’ve mentioned The Goon Show before. Here, we have a MeFi post that provides links to many videos of them, mostly episodes of The Telegoons, which I remember watching when I was a young nipper in England.

There are loads of links in the comments, too. One of them is to the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain performing the Ying-Tong Song. Wonderful, but then, they usually are.

I can see how I’ll be spending some of my time in the future.

Steve Martin does “El Paso.”

Me, I’m still hoping to find his original music video for Freddie’s Lilt, which involved a ghost town, rope tricks, and more. All I can find is this one.

“A veteran is someone who, at one point, wrote a blank check made payable to ‘The United States of America ‘ for an amount of ‘up to and including their life.’”

Read it.

First, Pelosi claimed that Congress would be more bipartisan if the Democrats were given a larger majority. Then, no Republican input was allowed into the health care reform bills. Following that, Pelosi claimed that a bill could be bipartisan without any Republican votes. Next, she claimed that they had to pass the bill in order for us to find out what was in it.

And now, Louise Slaughter is proposing that the Democrats “gimmick” things in order to pass the health care reform bill without ever actually voting on it.

The Register reports a new brain-to-computer technology that does not require electrodes inserted into the brain. It sounds good, but it’s only half of the equation. A computer-to-brain interface is also required - for those artificial limbs they mention, you’ll need to feel how hard you’re grasping. And, while getting rid of the keyboard and/or mouse is nice, who wants to lug around a large display?

The title is, of course, Scotty’s quote in Star Trek IV when he realized that the Mac he was seated in front of didn’t have voice recognition.

Well, actually, last week was National Procrastination Week.

Here’s some advice about dealing with procrastination. I’ll have to read it sometime.

Catchy music, and a wonderful video:

No catchy music here, but some impressive work (still in progress):

Update: CWCID - both videos are via Gizmodo.

I have a hard time believing that anyone with a functioning brain can say that, unless they’re deliberately lying through their teeth.

Honest.