The first book in Terry Pratchet's amazing Disc World series, The Colour of Magic, has been adapted for television and will be aired on the UK's Sky One on Easter Sunday. This was made by the same people that produced Hogfather, another Disc World adaptation, and if the production values from that are any indication, this new adaptation should be fantastic. I hope this trend of continues!

While Colour of Magic is only being released in the UK, I am sure those of us outside the country can still find a way to watch this...

This article and accompanying video are awesome. From the article: "But, we can kind of think of the multi-playthrough Kaizo Mario World video as a silly, sci-fi style demonstration of the Quantum Suicide experiment. At each moment of the playthrough there’s a lot of different things Mario could have done, and almost all of them lead to horrible death. The anthropic principle, in the form of the emulator’s save/restore feature, postselects for the possibilities where Mario actually survives and ensures that although a lot of possible paths have to get discarded, the camera remains fixed on the one path where after one minute and fifty-six seconds some observer still exists."

The Harbin ice and snow fesival in china is one of the most beautiful festival presentations in the world. This post provides photos and descriptions from this winter's event. I hope to someday be able to see this impressive display first hand.

These old print advertisements that feature the World Trade Center are very creepy in their seeming predictions of the 9-11 disaster.