Dans “How I Met Your Mother”, les chansons de Noël que Barney consacre à la soeur de Ted (via pegobry & chocolate-cigarettes)
A quelques heures de Noël, on a enfin confirmation : dans Battlestar Galactica, Starbuck est bien un ange !
“Guitar Hero with 21,268 Christmas lights” sur Kottke (December 14th, 2009) (via waxy)
This is possibly the most American thing I’ve ever seen : such ingenuity combined with such conspicuous waste.
Mobile Mobile (via mikropikol)
We took this as an opportunity to reinterpret the Christmas tree and its role as the traditional focal point for a communal space. ‘Mobile Mobile’ is a six metre circumference interactive sculpture, and signature piece for the entrance of the Brick Lane studio. Mobile Mobile upcycles fifty old agency cell phones (available after an agency-wide upgrade just two months prior). Each phone is individually addressed by a computer to cofunction and create a choral arrangement. Assigning each phone a tone, the mass is transformed into an aural form that appears to come alive, shimmering and flirting for onlookers.
The crew circled the moon 10 times over the next 20 hours. On their final orbit, once again alone behind the moon, the crew re-lit the engine that was their only ticket home. If it had failed to burn, they would have been stranded forever in lunar orbit. The flight controllers — to say nothing of the families — waited anxiously for the astronauts to emerge from radio blackout. When they did, it was Lovell’s voice that broke the silence. “Houston, Apollo 8,” he said. “Please be informed that there is a Santa Claus.
To everyone, peace on earth and goodwill towards all humanity. Celebrate it today, and practice it every day.