If you’re not particularly geeky, you might not have herd of Alan Turing. Well you should. He pioneered the fields of artificial intelligence and cryptography, and was instrumental in breaking the Nazi Enigma code during WWII. The British government, in thanks for Touring’s efforts, stripped him of his security clearance, chemically castrated him, and persecuted him into committing suicide. Back then, being one of the world leaders in the new field of computing and designing the code-breaking machine that won the war (or at least shortened it by quite a bit) didn’t mean squat if they found out you were gay. It’s OK though, because the British government said they were sorry about the whole thing. They waited until two years ago, but better late than never, right?
In any case, Alan Turing was a visionary who got fucked over by an ignorant, conservative government. Now you know.
In a blog choc full o’ geeky things, this just might be the geekiest. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Adam Savage dancing inside a Faraday cage to the Dr. Who theme song played on Tesla coils.
I have never seen something that is both so beautiful and so horrifying. On the one hand, this trailer is so fucking perfect it makes me dizzy. On the other hand, it just might prove that Patton Oswalt is right. I need to lie down for a bit.
Awesome bowl cut, indecipherable accent, wretched production quality, creepy obsession with VCRs, this video has it all. I don’t know if this is “real” or some sort of Kaufman-esque comedy video, and I don’t care. (via Engadget)
These are the things that amuse me. I am easily amused.
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