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	<title>Smashing Telly &#187; important dead people</title>
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		<title>Butterfly maker, Wheeler &#8211; broken &#8211;  John Wheeler and Edward Lorentz died this week.</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/04/19/butterfly-maker-wheeler-broken-john-wheeler-and-edward-lorentz-died-this-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Wheeler was a collaborator of Einstein who brought General Relativity out of &#8216;relative&#8217; obscurity, and searched for a unified field theory. He dies in the same year that a major experimental milestone this search, the Large Hadron Collider, is switched on. There is a long interview of Wheeler preserved for prosperity on the fabulous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>42 Hour Film of Buckminster Fuller</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/02/19/42-hour-film-of-buckminster-fuller/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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This has to be the most extreme example of what Smashing Telly set out to promote, the antithesis of &#8216;moronic 30 second dog on skateboard&#8217; clips, this is 42 hours of gloriously intelligent video.
With people not much older than Fuller, like George Orwell, having not a single audio or video recording of themselves in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drum Improvisations &#8211; Baby Dodds</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/02/06/drum-improvisations-baby-dodds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 04:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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Self indulgence week closes with a drum roll. This excellent solo from Baby Dodds in 1946.
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		<title>C.S. Lewis Lectures on the Novels of Charles Williams</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/02/06/cs-lewis-lectures-on-the-novels-of-charles-williams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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Lewis is on the right. He pronounces almost every vowel as a diphthong, something that is heard only among very old English aristocrats, these days.
I&#8217;m sure Lewis would be turning in his grave if he knew that he was a hero of the contemporary Christian right.
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		<title>Silent Film of Nietzsche accompanied by unnecessary music and moustache.</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/02/06/silent-film-of-nietzsche-accompanied-by-unnecessary-music-and-moustache/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[nietzsche


Nietsche is dead, God is not. Sadly.
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		<title>T.S. Eliot reads The Waste Land.</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/02/06/ts-eliot-reads-the-waste-land/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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On the one hand I hesitate to post The Waste Land since it is clearly self indulgent nonsense. However:
1. This is/was self indulgence week.
2. It&#8217;s really good self indulgent nonsense.
3. Eliot himself inoculated the poem by saying it was nonsense.
I do feel uncomfortable with the bits that sound pretty anti-semitic to me. Perhaps someone could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Einstein, Dirac, Godel, Erdos, Weyl in Princeton</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/02/06/einstein-dirac-godel-erdos-weyl-in-princeton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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A home movie from 1947. What a place Princeton was, after the war.
@ 33 seconds: Einstein
1:06 Godel on left
1:25 Selberg at the right, his wife Heddy in the middle
1:41 Paul Erdos (left) and Hermann Weyl (right)
3:01 Paul Dirac at right, and his student Harish-Chandra at left
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		<title>Mark Twain at Stormfield, 1909 (Edison film)</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/02/06/mark-twain-at-stormfield-1909-edison-film/</link>
		<comments>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/02/06/mark-twain-at-stormfield-1909-edison-film/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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Mark Twain in his signature &#8220;Don&#8217;t Give a Damn&#8221; white suit. The first true American.
(Self indulgence week runs over a couple of days, since I didn&#8217;t manage to put up the remaining clips in time, on account of having to rebuilt the site after it was hacked. I have now intstalled 3 miles of razor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nikolaus Pevsner &#8211; Reith Radio Lecture</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/01/31/nikolaus-pevsner-reith-radio-lecture/</link>
		<comments>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/01/31/nikolaus-pevsner-reith-radio-lecture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category>
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&#8220;A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture&#8221;. So said Pevsner, who fled Nazi Germany to the UK and is responsible for one of its greatest architectural edifices. Something that is neither a bicycle shed or a cathedral, but an inimitable 32 volume foundation to the definitive history of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Le Corbusier Interview</title>
		<link>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/01/29/le-corbusier-interview/</link>
		<comments>http://smashingtelly.com/2008/01/29/le-corbusier-interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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Self indulgence week continues, with an interview with Le Corbusier when he was in his 70s, speaking in English. If Robert Moses was the Stalin of architecture, then Le Corbusier was its Marx: a genius who shouldn&#8217;t be imitated.
The amazing thing about Le Corbusier is that despite the fact that almost everything he built was [...]]]></description>
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