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Links and Video of the Week (2010/48)
- Celestron’s Capture the Universe 2010 Astrophoto winners!
- Great snow photos at The Big Picture
- 10 reasons (and many more in the comments) why beer is better than religion
- Scientists jokes
- The only sensible use for Powerpoint
- Richard Dawkins reading hate mails he received (via Diax’s Rake)
Song of the Day
…in a live version with an unusual intro (watch in HD on YouTube):
Well, it was the 40th anniversary of the Montreux Jazz Festival… Why song of the day? Because it was on 4 Dec 1971 that the Montreux casino burned down, an this was what inspired Deep Purple to write Smoke On The Water.
For this occasion, they also had neon letters and the famous chords on the wall beneath the marché couvert in 2006 – when I was there for the Freddie Mercury memorial day, my old small camera, however, wasn’t able to make a proper photo (which I unfortunately noticed too late):
Someone got a better photo on Flickr.