As I rummage around the corners of my cranium I find many that
many people, groups, objects and events stand out as being tops
in their field, at least as far as I'm concerned. Here are some
specific favorites that come to mind.
Favorite Graphics
"Kinesin Molecule Walking:, by John Liebler, founder and director of
3D Medical Animation at Art of the Cell: Medical & Scientific 3D
Animation. As former Lead Medical Animator of , John is best known for working with
Harvard University/Biovisions to create their pivotal molecular
animation , viewable at
. John has over 20 years of
experience creating scientific images and interactive 3D videos
for a wide range of pharmaceutical, biomedical, and educational
companies.
According to ,
"In 2005, the forums hosted a contest in which a blue ball
machine was to be created. While no specific instructions were
provided for creating the instances, hundreds of SomethingAwful forum
goons posted small GIF animations in which blue balls ran through a
small portion of a virtual Rube Goldberg machine. These were
eventually compiled together into a large collage of GIFs and spawned
dozens of derivatives on , some of which went on to become the most
viewed pages of all time within the community."
"As far as we can see with our ever-improving telescopes, there are
at least a hundred billion galaxies arrayed throughout the universe.
Each, like the Milky Way, is an island galaxy containing billions of
stars. This map uses graphic leaps of scales to show how our solar
system fits within the vastness of the universe. The map also includes
a universe timeline and a description of its evolution."
Other Favorites
Edward Herrmann, Billy Crudup, Marguerite Moreau, Wilms Herbert (old-time radio)
Bouguereau
Norman Rockwell
Charles R. Knight
Steven Pinker's "The Language Instinct"
Johanne Sebastian Bach
Brahm's Violin Concerto
Portrait of a Young Girl, by Diego Velasquez
Roy Chapman Andrews
Glad
Will Durant, Daniel N. Robinson
The Rippingtons
Raymond Scott
Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short, LP
Taking a nap
, Despicable Me, Ice Age
Milo and Otis, The Golden Compass, The Parent Trap (with Lindsay Lohan)
Ali G Indahouse, Dick, Harold and Maude, No Time for Sergeants, Serial, Zelig, Easy
A Time to Kill, Live Free or Die Hard, Stone Cold, Street Kings, Training Day
Sky Captain and the World of the Future, Something the Lord Made, Something Wild, Splendor in the Grass, Stage Beauty, Sundays and Cybelle, The Good Shepherd, The Last of the Mohicans
Almost Famous, Amazing Grace, Boys and Girls, What a Girl Wants
fugue
violin
American Museum of Natural History
pi, e, i, phi
Bouguereau's "First Kiss"
Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?
Toni Basil singing and dancing "Wham!" on Saturday Night Live
Socrates
Karl Popper
Perl, JavaScript, PHP, Smalltalk, PL/I
Paul Rosenfels
Rumpole of the Bailey (BBC)
Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, On the Media (NPR)
Richard Diamond, Sherlock Holmes
Taking a nap
Fredric Brown, Olaf Stapledon
"The Mad Moon" [1935] by Stanley G. Weinbaum
Richard Milner
quantum wierdness, exobiology, nanotechnology, galactic topography
Klingon
Stan Rogers
Bonnie Raitt
Franklin and Eleanor
"The Ascent of Man" with Jacob Bronowski, "Civilization" with Kenneth Clark, "500 Nations" with Kevin Costner
Avonlea, Northern Exposure, The Lone Gunmen
David Oistrakh, Aaron Rosand
1950-era J-series Esterbrook maroon fountain pen
Bronx Zoo