Godwin’s Law?

Godwin’s Law states: “As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”

It’s often mixed in with Reductio ad Hitlerum: Invoking Hitler automatically makes you lose the argument.

On that basis, given the video below, should Obama bow out of the US Democratic candidacy race?

(the video, by the way, is an absolutely brilliant instance of a novel Internet meme, putting new subtitles over scenes from Downfall, a good film recounting Hitler’s last days before his suicide oin a Berlin bunker - but it’s doubtless very offensive to HillDog)

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Now with amazing lighting effects (including day/night, sunshine coming through the clouds, etc) - but more importantly, now with StreetView. Watch the video below - what an incredible tool. Think back to human endeavour and exploration over human history; Humanity can be really, really proud of having got to this - a free, publically available, interactive tool with a lot of user-generated content, available to anyone with a PC and an internet connection. ...

Daily moment of zen

Clear your schedule for the next 9 minutes. There are times in life when you sense the very limits of mankind's potential, of life, of the edges of our universe - moments of perfection, flawlessness, mindblowing coolness. Summits (vertices?) of life's multiple-dimensioned box. You sense you've arrived at an edge, actually touched the fabric. It's electrifying. As a molecular biochemist and a new media geek, I think that's perhaps what I spend my days searching for, right at the cutting (bleeding!) edge of just two of the many dimensions of humanity's potential (though I usually just pass it off as neophilia). I give you Freddie King, Sweden, 1973. "This is the blues, are you listening" This may not be such a moment for you, but one young human to another, I hope your weeks and months have plenty of others....

WTF-Of-The-Day 2: Cultural differences

Watch this. 30 seconds of your life. Warped. Also watch the related videos YouTube suggests, for more of the same. WTF....

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