There’s a cool one of those star things in Holland – Naarden or Vaarden or something.

Yea – there you go: http://tr.im/QOb4

I think you did use Salient correctly the first time.

No, I did not know that. And It’s utterly fascinating, the way you put it.

Is that a moat around that incredibly safe-looking village?!

I see I didn’t use the word salient correctly. I meant your point(s) were astute and shrewd and I see salient as a adjective can mean only something is prominent or obvious.

Like this one:

http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/2009-06/bourtange-star-shaped-village.jpg

The pointy bits are called Salients. Salient points etc. Each little island of pointyness is called a “Bastion” – as in Last Bastion. When your last Bastion falls, the whole castle goes down.

But it was still the beginning of the end – the counter-culture had stopped being counter, and big money was cashing in on it.

Which is a massively exaggerated version of what’s going on here… but I managed to come away with the impression that Rube Goldberg machines have now been “done”. It’s a bit like BMW commissioning an advert with a lego-rubiks-cube-solving-robot in it. After that, why would you make your own? It’s become kindof second-hand.

Dunno. Maybe it’s just me. I’m contrary.

It sounds like the guys who worked on the project were really excited to have the opportunity to take part in something so epic.

But you’re right – the music has to cut it. If I have a favourite OK Go song, it’s one from 2002, in the days before they made lol videos.

So much of life is Zeus’ memetic smart-bombing! The whole world seems set up to get our goat!

Dunno – maybe I’m just too steeped in this stuff… and I’m really not from this culture, though I can blend in. I find those Irish guys in the google-translate-fail video above, almost a physical relief to listen to.

re: The Bible – if you’re interested in EU history, it’s kindof required reading – but bloody hell, it don’t arf go on. The King James is more lyrical than the other versions… I’d be interested to see if the original Greek or Aramaic or whatever had the same lyrical bent, or if it was down to the English translators. It cause the most frightful amount of fuss. The English translation I mean.

In fact it caused so much fuss that it’s tempting to regard it as some sort of smart-bomb lobbed down from Mt Olympus or wherever – a memetic weapon of mass destruction.

LOL on the bible code bit. Sigh making innit.