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I can’t say that the Doctor Who premiere blew my socks off.  The new Doctor/Companion dynamic is good and Matt Smith had a good start as the Doctor; however, the story didn’t move much, the first 15 minutes were forgettable, and the new opening credits sequence is cringe worthy.

With all that said, I am still excited about the new season especially episode 3 with the Daleks and Winston Churchill joining forces.  Should be a good time.

Solar Eruption from our friends at NASA.

Attention fellow geeks: Be part of the ultimate open source remake of the world’s greatest movie!!!  Take a 15 second scene and remake it however you’d like.  Hilarity ensues.

Trailer.

15 second remade clip of “The Escape”.

A new installment of Drunk History featuring Duncan Trussell discussing the life and times of Nikola Tesla.

For those of you uninitiated to Drunk History, take a look at my personal favorite—the story of Alexander Hamilton.  The cell phones are a nice touch.

…until David Tennant’s final episode as the Doctor. To whet your appetite, here is preview for tonight’s episode, “End of Time:Part II”, and a trailer for next season with the new Doctor.

Just look at this place.  Jay Walker…I salute you.

Just peruse some of what this room holds:

-Sputnik–THE actual Sputnik

-A Kelmscott copy of Chaucer’s works which includes some of the most beautiful literary illustrations every produced.

-The Chandelier from Die Another Day.

-A 1665 Bills of Morality chronicle of London

-The instruction manual for the Saturn V rocket

-Andrea Cellarius’ hand-painted celestial atlas from 1660.  THE 1st such maps not centering the universe around Earth.

-A Coverdale Bible.  THE 1st translated from start to finish in English.

-A Nazi Enigma machine

Wow.  Just Wow.

Wearing a huge can-you-believe-it grin is the collection’s impresario, the 52-year-old Internet entrepreneur and founder of Walker Digital — a think tank churning out ideas and patents, it’s best-known for its lucrative Priceline.com. “I started an R&D lab and have been an entrepreneur. So I have a big affinity for the human imagination,” he says. “About a dozen years ago, my collection got so big that I said, ‘It’s time to build a room, a library, that would be about human imagination.’”

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