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.
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!
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Quicktime error -8998. Tear.
The movie shows without errors on my Mac and Windows machines, as well as for a number of other people.
Based on this, wouldn’t it be possible to figure out what state Springfield is in?
It almost looks like Indiana or Wisconson, but we all know that Springfield has a salt-water harbor, so that wouldn’t make sense.
Does thinking about this make sense?
How about a torrent? You’ll probably get a *lot* of hits from boingboing.net.
Well, but the movie seems to start in Chicago, which is where the original Powers of Ten originated.
http://chalco.dyndns.org/get/torrents/Simpsons_Couch.torrent
http://chalco.dyndns.org/get/torrents/Simpsons_Couch.torrent
Was this sunday the first time they did that gag? I thought I saw them do it before.
Certainly a very Futurama-esque pullout.
So, before I go download some software that lets me dowload a .torrent, please tell me what video format this is in? Is it .wmv, .mov, or something else?
It’s .mov.
Any news on a new host for that file? I can’t use bittorrent here.
Here’s a short-term place where you can grab the file.
Yes, I remembered I saw it before too. So I looked it up:
Near the end of this page:
From the same site: