Yup, chess and boxing.  Not exactl riveting sports entertainment, particularly with the most monotone boxing commentator of all time.

Oh man, sometimes a good ad can be, well really good.

Clearly lots of people have lots of answers to this question, but this guy has an interesting perspective.  He’s describing the direction of the country and how we’re losing a connection to doing things well using a story about a sign to illustrate his point.  Its a little bit elitist, but I like it a lot.

Ok, so that title has very little to do  with the content of this post, but the main feature of the content here is a nerd who would be stoned to death on mars.  I don’t want to ruin it, so you’ll just have to take my word for it, but lets just say he’s entertaining enough for me to have watched several videos in which he describes elements of the periodic table.  My favorite (so far) being Mendeleeveum (Md, in the second row of the bottom two added on rows).

Oh yeah, so what I’m linking to is a periodic table of videos, where this enormous nerd explains every element of the periodic table.

http://www.periodicvideos.com/index.htm#

Adorable, two guys filmed their Italian parents watching the 2006 Italy vs. France World Cup Final (home of the notorious Zidane head butt).

pastis_la_fnale.mov

And how could you not?  Yes so maybe he’s drunk away what could have been an amazing golf career, but he’s having fun, and who could judge him for that

In case you were looking for more sport science like my last post you can check it out here.  They do a lot of good stuff and a fair bit of goofiness (like testing the myth about boxers having sex before fights).

Clearly I will some day make an art project about this phenomenon.

92nd St. Y in tribeca made this fantastic spoof of Juneau.

Lots of talk this week about geeks since Gary Gygax died. Not that I have a real opinion on the subject, but Slate makes a more compelling argument than the NYTimes about the inherent value of D&D, even if the diagram above from the Times is hilarious.  And to be fair anyone who brought that much joy and entertainment to so many deserves some serious props.