http://videosift.com/video/Christmas-Sweaters-Fuel-Funky-Dad-Action

A smile for you today. I think....

Astonishing stuff. Gleeful. And I like the song! It's funky, catchy and cool. Far from meh. There's stuff out there that's hugely more meh, makes more money and doesn't give the world a fantastic video to love.

*quality Chomsky, as always

The question at 44:03 is just as relevant today as it was a quarter of a century ago.

I would argue that a precarious situation with regards to your income is just as effective a pacifier as the usual bread & games are. A zero-hour contract, or a wage that requires you to get a second/third job, effectively prevents you from participating in civil society. You don't have the time nor the energy to become informed, and you sure as hell are not going to become involved, either. And everything's left for the good old boys club to decide...

Maybe they've overcooked it in Greece and Spain, maybe not. But it works like a charm in Germany, where a great number of people are struggling enough to prevent them from getting any funky ideas, yet not enough to have them pick up their pitchforks and torches.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Funky Cover' to 'Funky Cover, bass guitar, Marta Altesa, Jamiroquai, Time Wont Wait' - edited by eric3579

That's funky

Wow... I was a huge fan of the older cartoon and the movies back 20+ years ago. I have thought that the Michael Bay versions of the turtles look funky, but then again when I saw the old movie versions again here I must admit they looked pretty funky too.

On the other hand, the cartoon holds up pretty well in pure aesthetic terms, at least in my eye...

And sifters - if it sounds a bit too weird, go to 4:11 for the second (and severely funky) tune.

Funky *audio

Sounded like plain old Ska to me, not funky. I mean...didn't see Bootsie there.

It is as good as you think it is

...and if you haven't seen these you probably should
http://videosift.com/video/Janelle-Monae-Knows-How-To-Get-Funky
http://videosift.com/video/Janelle-Monae-Q-U-E-E-N-feat-Erykah-Badu

One of the original "hair" bands? ... get down get funky! *quality

If it's blocked for you it can be seen here. Although its a funky copy of the video
http://youtu.be/DDLHFmDqFR4

*promote

cool little funky Zeppelin medley she put in the middle there

You are correct, the way it is written in the title is wrong. One possible notation as I was taught many years ago would be to add an "R" for Ramanujan above the equals sign to point out that we're talking about the sum of a diverging infinite series.

No idea if it's the correct notation, especially since I've seen different versions of it.

That said, there are multiple proofs that the Riemann zeta function of -1, which is the infinite series mentioned above, does in fact equal -1/12.

As a reminder, the Riemann zeta function is this:

zeta(s) = sum(n=1,inf) 1/n^s

If you restrict it to real numbers, it converges for all s>1, so by evaluating it at s=-1, you are messing around with a diverging series, which is why it looks so funky. It's a holomorphic continuation outside its defined area and it seems to work for theoretical physics. And it gives me a headache.

My Googlegänger is about the same age and grew up about 20km from me, even though my last name is rather uncommon. Combined with the fact that I don't use any social networks, it made for some awkward moments during job interviews over the years...

Also, Zugzwang sounds funky when pronounced by someone who doesn't speak German.