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My mother went to church. She was terribly disappointed to learn I am no more a believer today than I was last month.



Instead, I found myself watching this video a couple dozen times. Amazing. The part where it zooms out to map all the known galaxies and there are those big black patches? Blows your mind.

Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize.

'Cuz you can win one for not being George Bush. Holy. Shit.

I started watching 'Merlin' the other night with Cooper. We watched about seven straight episodes. Unfortunately I failed at DVD making and we watched some of them out of order, including the second episode as the first episode. Doubly unfortunate as that second episode is literally one of the worst hours of television I've ever seen.

Anyway, it's okay, I'll probably watch the rest of the season tonight. Cooper and I almost invented a drinking game which was 'every time Anthony Stewart Head gets to have range, take a drink', because most of the show involves his character being a complete douche to create third act drama. Strangely, they just gave interesting backstory to Gaius, which makes it two Gaiuses in a row who are interesting characters.

Mainly the whole thing makes me wonder why the BBC never made a good version of "The Once and Future King". And also why I can't find my copy for a reread.



Here's a video of a historian who made a working reconstruction of the Antikythera mechanism.

There's a movie coming out called Nothing But The Truth which is a thinly veiled version of the Valarie Plame scandal. It's written by Rob Lurie, who did 'Commander-in-Chief', that shit West Wing knockoff, and the much better film "The Contender". Interestingly, it not only has Alan Alda, but some guy named President Lyman who gets shot.

Dude. Where's the download for Einstein and Eddington? I want to see that movie so painfully bad -- Andy Serkis! David Tennant! PHYSICS. I'm about to cave and watch it on iPlayer, but dammit. I want it on a DVD so I can watch in the comfort of my bed.

1. Leaked footage from Buffy the Animated Series.

About a million years after the fact, I think we can say that it doesn't live up to the fantastic hype. Giles continues to get the best lines.

2. The Super Rare Devil's Cigar Fungus, found only in Japan and TEXAS?

3. Skience also finds a bunch of gorillas and gets really excited because now they're that much less closer to extinction. Well, it gives me the warm fuzzies.