Update: Had to take the file down temporarily as Blogware's servers were getting overloaded (we're getting a bigger, faster one soon). I'll let you know as soon as I've found a new home for the video.

If you have BitTorrent on your machine, someone's got a .torrent of the file at http://chalco.dyndns.org/get/torrents/Simpsons_Couch.torrent.


Charles Eames has a saying that's one of my favourites: "Eventually, everything connects", a statement that harkens back to an earlier saying by the Buddhists: "When you slice a blade of grass, you shake the universe".

One of Charles Eames' best-known works is the film he created with his wife Ray, Powers of 10, the classic 1977 film that looks at the relative size of things from  microscopic to the edges of the known universe. Your mathematical education is not complete unless you've seen this film.


My friend Chris Turner, author of Planet Simpson, has a philosophy similar to Eames': eventually, everything connects to The Simpsons. More proof for this hypothesis appeared recently when the Simpsons showed its best "couch gag" (the gag at the end of the title sequence where they gather on the couch), in which they pay homage to Powers of 10.

It's brilliant and you must watch it [10.3 MB QuickTime movie, enclosure]. I'll post as soon as I've found a new home for the video!