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A year after losing the use of their legs and a year after winning the lotto, lottery winners and paraplegics are equally happy with their lives. -Dan Gilbert

From a letter to Werner Herzog by Roger Ebert: It is safe to say you are as admired and venerated as any filmmaker alive—among those who have heard of you, of course. Those who do not know your work, and the work of your comrades in the independent film world, are missing experiences that might [...]

Arthur Benjamin: Lightning calculation and other “Mathemagic” In this video Arthur Benjamin calculates squares of 2, 3, and 4 digit numbers faster than you can do it on a calculator. I know. I tried to keep up while watching the video. Audience members give him their birthdate and he tells them what day of the [...]

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Now let’s repeat the non-conformists oath: I promise to be different. I promise to be unique. I promise not to repeat things other people say! -Steve Martin from his comedy album, Wild and Crazy Guy Photo: Wikimedia

Man on Wire won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature this year. The subject of the film, Philippe Petit, leapt up on stage while the filmmakers were giving their speeches. When it was his turn, he said he wanted to “thank the Academy for believing in magic” as he vanished a coin that he [...]

I am trying to learn to juggle plungers. On YouTube there are some videos of people who already know how.

Snirt in Whately, Massachusetts

There was an Internet hoax going around that a woman said an elephant was larger than the Moon on a television game show. People laughed. Well now I have proof that not only are elephants larger than the Moon, but they are also larger than the Sun.