Tim Minchin is a wonderful, intelligent and heartfelt man. And a killer musician, which is really why any of us have stopped on this post, right?
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Insight into the experiences of growing up as heir to incredible estates. A fascinating portfolio of people who have reacted to, and defined themselves against, a fortune that is often hard to even fathom. If there was ever more conclusive proof that it's the meaning you create, not the meaning that you are given, that makes for a satisfying life, I haven't heard of it. Personal aside: please, if you are super rich, use your money to help less fortunate people educate themselves. Or take up painting. It's a free country. Born Rich (2003) Directed and narrated by the heir to the Johnson & Johnson estate, Jamie. This is a huge database of pictures from Life Magazine (and sometimes not from there) that cut into our nostalgia and find new perspectives on our grandparents' and great-grandparents' times. Here and Here. I saw the first picture in this stream in a Denny's in Texas, with some really bad airbrushing to insert the Denny's logo. So lame. A cool site that takes your birth date (or a "friend's" birth date) and cranks out a list of interesting facts about your life so far. Find out how many days you've been alive or approximately how many kilometres total you've travelled through the galaxy. Fun. Here. This is an updated version of something that has been around for a long time. It's a to-scale diorama of our solar system, peppered with little jokes and such. Just get as far as Earth, if you do anything. Pretty cool. http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html So there's this new videogame that is kind of what might have happened if Frank Miller and Tarantino had a love child. It's the 60s and the Nazis won. You're pissed about that and aim to do something about it. And to advertise it, they created a fake recording label with all sorts of 60s hits as they might have sounded if they were written with the Third Reich in charge. Creepy, funny and totally weird. Check it out: http://www.neumondrecordings.com/en-us/site This is how internet works in America. And Canada, but here it's slightly more polite about it. You wouldn't think Disney could be this funny. This cartoon was made in '97 and disappeared for a while. It was recovered a few years ago and now you're watching it. Life is cool. |
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