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Let Your Geek Flag Fly Open Thread

by Tom Levenson|  June 11, 20116:02 pm| 17 Comments

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Via my polytalented colleague Nick Montfort, I learned of this absurdly cool — really mesmerizing — video made by digital artist jörg piringer:

<div align=”center”><iframe width=”560″ height=”349″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/Z_sl99D2a18″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe></div>

I now have a new item for my bucket list:  getting my own character accepted to Unicode.

By the way:  be careful.  Watching this for too long may induce long unfelt cravings for a blacklight, Robin Trower solos,* and whatever it was you put in that bong.

Open thread, all.  Have at it.

*To which I’m listening as I post this.

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17Comments

  1. 1.

    jeffreyw

    June 11, 2011 at 6:05 pm

    Ate too much.

  2. 2.

    Nutella

    June 11, 2011 at 6:15 pm

    Time to send some $$ to Wisconsin recall. Walker and his friends have come out against breweries! In Wisconsin. Next thing you know they’ll try to regulate bratwurst out of existence, too.

  3. 3.

    arguingwithsignposts

    June 11, 2011 at 6:17 pm

    Cloud Cult. You Will be Bright. If you get the chance to see them, I highly encourage it. Energetic DFH’s ftw.

  4. 4.

    stuckinred

    June 11, 2011 at 6:21 pm

    Almost
    cut
    my hair

  5. 5.

    Ghanima Atreides

    June 11, 2011 at 6:27 pm

    wahdat al shuhud and wahdat al wujud
    jamaat homo sapiens sapiens

  6. 6.

    arguingwithsignposts

    June 11, 2011 at 6:42 pm

    Cloud Cult: No One Said it Would Be Easy.

  7. 7.

    Neil

    June 11, 2011 at 6:53 pm

    ☃

  8. 8.

    Interrobang

    June 11, 2011 at 7:38 pm

    You might want to put a warning to people with seizure disorders not to watch that video. I suspect it could cause some people problems.

  9. 9.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    June 11, 2011 at 7:53 pm

    Was Robin Trower ever known for anything other than “Bridge of Sighs?” I mean, it seems like the guy put out a bunch of albums, but they all had one side devoted to various iterations of “Bridge of Sighs.” Robin Trower was proud of that fucking song.

    The character generator thing was cool too, I guess.

  10. 10.

    Libby

    June 11, 2011 at 8:07 pm

    I thought the video was very cool. When I started I said, Meh, I won’t last 30 seconds. Five minutes later, I said, I have to turn this off. It’s messing with my head. Expect I’ll watch all of it eventually.

  11. 11.

    Hob

    June 11, 2011 at 10:21 pm

    My favorite thing about the Unicode standard is that it includes the Shavian alphabet, which no one has ever used and which has letter names like “peep” and “ha-ha”.

  12. 12.

    2th&nayle

    June 11, 2011 at 10:44 pm

    @Evolved Deep Southerner: Well, there’s Day of the Eagle, Long Misty Days, About to Begin, Smile, In City Dreams, and a whole cavalcade of others. In my opinion about anything with James Dewar singing lead is a classic. But that’s just me. I’m not aware of any albums that have other versions of Bridge of Signs unless you’e talking Beyond the Mist and that’s a live album.

  13. 13.

    Petorado

    June 12, 2011 at 12:30 am

    There’s always the time when Trower got funky.

    @Nutella
    As I sip on an Upslope brown ale, brewed just blocks away, that crap would would just not fly in Colorado. Walker’s just pouring hydrochloric acid on the wound. Rightwingnuts are already trying to kill grandma through Medicare. Apple pie is the next thing to die in Republican hands, if we let them.

  14. 14.

    Jimperson Zibb (formerly Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.)

    June 12, 2011 at 2:14 pm

    What’s your character? I’ve always been fascinated by the alphabet. When I found out about the Greek and Cyrillic alphabets, I was in heaven. When I learned about ð and þ, once used in English and still used in Icelandic, I made it my life’s ambition to get them brought back into the English alphabet. Needless to say, I’m still working on it; converting people to ð & þ can be slow work…

  15. 15.

    dj spellchecka

    June 12, 2011 at 3:40 pm

    robin trower 1975 concert video from wolfgang’s vault

    http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/robin-trower/video/

    now playing
    junior wells and the aces live in boston 1966 [delmark records]

  16. 16.

    someofparts

    June 13, 2011 at 2:39 pm

    Robin Trower solo indeed!

  17. 17.

    Tyelperion

    June 15, 2011 at 8:28 am

    I find it amazing that from around the 4 minute mark, for the next 20 minutes it’s all Chinese characters.

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