Impatso and Punning

How many puns are in this Filipino commercial?

David Tennant's Hamlet

This summer The Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Hamlet features David Tennant as the melancholy Prince of Denmark and Patrick Stewart as Claudius.

Tennant takes a break from the TARDIS (September 2007): Under a compromise agreement, Tennant is expected to return to the role for [Doctor Who's] fifth series since its revival, in 2010. He has agreed to film three extended bank holiday specials to keep fan’s happy during 2009.

[from shironezumi] Neil Gaiman on Tennant's Hamlet:

"To be, or not to be, that is the question. Weeelll.... More of A question really. Not THE question. Because, well, I mean, there are billions and billions of questions out there, and well, when I say billions, I mean, when you add in the answers, not just the questions, weeelll, you're looking at numbers that are positively astronomical and...for that matter the other question is what you lot are doing on this planet in the first place, and er, did anyone try just pushing this little red button?"

The Wislawa Szymborska Remix

[video] Wislawa Szymborska on the Szymon Majewski Show.

Outrageous Fortune

Slings and Arrows (2003-2006): Great Canadian TV comedy series about theatre, Shakespeare, Hamlet. It ran for three seasons and starred Paul Gross as Geoffrey Tennant, a 'legendary theatrical madman' who takes over as artistic director of a theatre company when his mentor passes away.

Oliver's dream is the pilot.

[videos] Try the trailer, then the pilot on YouTube in parts: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

[thanks to wheresmycow for suggesting this, and for keeping the sanity and faith: 'Good madam, stay awhile; I will be faithful.']

Ethnomathematics

[pdf] Peace, Social Justice, and Ethnomathematics (2007) by Ubiratan d'Ambrosio:

Issues affecting society nowadays, such as national security, personal security, economics, social and environmental disruption, relations among nations, relations among social classes, people's welfare, the preservation of natural and cultural resources, and many others can be synthesised as Peace in its several dimensions: Inner Peace, Social Peace, Environmental Peace and Military Peace.These four dimensions are intimately related. Social Justice, the theme of this book, naturally leads to Social Peace. Although, as I said, the four dimensions of Peace are intimately related, in this chapter I will focus my reflection on Social Justice and how can Ethnomathematics contribute to it.

Ethnomathematics: an absolute key for Mathematics education (1998): Needless to say how native algorithms to perform these operations are culturally-dependent and, therefore, are different. That is why the (Ethno)-Mathematics becomes absolutely essential for mathematics education.

Ethnomathematics Digital Library (2005): Around seven hundred items relevant to the Pacific region.

[old video] Filipino must-see, popular 'Ethnomathematics': If you're Filipino, once you see it, you will know the 'algorithm', then you will want to wash your eyes.

Nice Guys Finish How?

Why Nice Guys Finish Last: Manliness 101 suggests dropping the 'nice guy' act and 'getting with the programme'. Finding a woman should not be the sole purpose of your time. Act naturally as a man and don’t perceive women as better than you, and the good relationships will come.

[via infoshop] Nice Guys Finish First (1987): Richard Dawkins discusses selfishness and cooperation.

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