Okay, Sarah Connor's Chronicles has definitely won a spot in my heart that is even unrelated to the hot robot and the MILF
Half way through the 3rd episode and they have already mentioned two of my favorite pieces of historical esoterica : Mo Berg and the The Turk
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/venona/dece_berg.htmlThe Turk
http://www.amazon.com/Turk-Famous-Eighteenth-Century-Chess-Playing-Machine/dp/B000HWZ28Q/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200969393&sr=8-1That ain't bad for 22 minutes of prime time entertainment.
Enjoy.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
