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The Friday Fillip

By Simon Fodden

I have a quintet for you today, five easy — and small — pieces, the first of which, fittingly, is Five Easy Pieces. There’s the 1970 movie, of course, made famous by the chicken salad sandwich scene. The title comes from an opening scene not actually used in the movie, in which, in the words of the script, there’s a:

CLOSE-UP of a program announcing a Dupea family
recital. The CAMERA SCANS down the bill . . .

The CAMERA COMES to rest on:
Five Easy Pieces – Grebner – Played by Robert Dupea.

But Grebner is fictitious. However, there were, perhaps not coincidentally, five songs by Tammy Wynette used in the movie — and five classical pieces used as well. Because this is Friday, I’ll recommend you click the following link and let the great Ms Wynette rather than Bach play in the background as you look at the other four pieces here.

Next, for something completely different: a clip from the Globe and Mail dated April 11, 1969, that I came across while doing some research. (Click to make it legible.) O tempora, O mores.

Third, is a new ad campaign by Iceland, the country that wants to be your friend (so long as, I suspect, you’re paying). It’s well done, and nails our fascination with social media just right. Not bad for a country whose map looks like a badly diseased organ. They even manage to make the image look… appealing interesting.

My fourth item I borrow from Connie Crosby’s post yesterday on the law firm Morrison Foerster: go and look at their website. Not only do they have the chutzpah, balls, guts — call it what you will — to call themselves MoFo, they also have simply the coolest damn website of any law firm I have ever seen. I don’t know how potential clients feel about it, but it makes me think about working there.

And last, but likely infinite and certainly irrational, is the announcement that this coming Sunday is Pi Day, at least in American calendaring: 3/14. Give a thought at 1:59 on that day to this glorious ratio (and to all of those students who learn at that exact moment on that exact day that MIT has accepted them). In preparation, you should visit the Pi Day website, if only to glance at The Number itself played out to a million places:

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on March 12, 2010 (boomark / email).