The Dark Balloon

A weblog by Hao Lian.
A terrible secret guarded by golems.
A note that thanks you for being born, all those years ago.

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LtJz

For Look Around You fans—you know who you are—the BBC has kindly put up the absolutely wonderful periodic table from the show. I wish I could link you to the Uncyclopedia periodic table of elements, which has the potential to be funny, but it sucks so very much like the rest of that awful blight of a website.

[(2008 March 2) • • .]

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I review Look Around You, quickly.

So I just discovered, via reddit, Look Around You, the most delicious and spot-on parody (of educational films) television series. It’s absolutely velvety: “What are birds? We just don’t know. / Thanks, ants. Thants. / Water, what hast thou done?” For a start, view the Maths module or, better yet, the Music module. In summary, not having BBC is like not holding hands: You miss out on a lot of good stuff.

[(2008 January 15, 2!) • • • • .]