There is nothing today about the anniversary we're observing. This is just in case you're as sick of it as I am.
I've never watched Farscape, but a lot of folks I like and respect seem to love it and are up in arms over its cancellation. A couple asked that I direct your attention to this website which is trying to keep the show alive. So if you adore the show as many seem to, hop over there and see what you can do.
Robert B. Weide is a respected producer whose credits include the fine documentary, The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell. Recently, he decided to pony up megabucks to purchase a harp that had allegedly belonged to Harpo Marx. What he went through will serve as a fine object lesson that not all movie memorabilia is precisely what it is purported to be. Mr. Weide lays out the whole sad tale over at his website. And while you're there, have a look around. There are a number of interesting things to read.
A number of you, all of whom can count better than I can, sent me messages like this one from Oliver King. This is about the previous item about the stamps…
You can permute the three rows any way you like, and still preserve the three pairings. There are six ways to do this. Then for each row you can swap the stamp on the left with the stamp on the right while still preserving the pairings. There are 8 ways to do this. Thus of the 720 different ways to arrange the six stamps, 6*8 = 48 of them (or 1/15th of them) preserve the three pairings. Or half that many, if you require that Hart look at Rodgers and Hammerstein rather than off into space.
He's right, of course. But I'm still right that they don't make Broadway composers like they used to…or maybe they do, but there's insufficient chance for them to show what they can do. Either way, it would be hard to fill six stamps with recent guys.