Happy Hexaflexagon Month

Happy October! It's the Month of the Hexaflexagon:

That's Vi Hart, who's apparently incapable of sounding anything but charming and delightful. If you're not a geometry person, this will make you wish you were.

Okay, I can't resist. Here's her video on the annoying mathematical impossibility of Spongebob's pineapple home, as proved by Fibonacci numbers and masking tape:

Her analysis of Spongebob's domicile was so devastating that the designer himself responded.

Which he did, here.

NERD Star Wars Yoga.

Let me note: nicely done. Let me also note: WHY? Will there come a time when the application Star Wars does not automatically make something the internet feels compelled to gush over, or at least pretend to enjoy? Can that time come soon?

Speaking of which, did anyone ever go to the bottom of the Mario tunnels in this famous Click and Drag cartoon? Those tunnels were the equivalent of Desert Bus, and after I while I really got tired of clicking and dragging.

Ah: thank you, BoingBoing.

A scrollable version is here, so you can experience the entire thing - zoomed in or out - without clicking and dragging.

DISNEY It's the 30th anniversary of EPCOT, Walt's utopian vision of urban life. Didn't turn out the way he intended, but it's hard to argue with what the ended up building: it's the third most visited park in the country. Here's a very 1982 promo video:

And here's the man himself, describing the dream.