I love the way Scrubs mixes goofy comedy with some quite touching moments.
I caught the pilot episode of Scrubs the other day, which was JD's first day on the job, and he got lumbered with being the only on-call doctor that night (I know, not very realistic, but it sets the scene). Obviously, he's stricken with panic.
There's one shot where he's standing there in normal speed, looking lost, whilst in the background the other hospital staff are going about their daily business, but at maybe double normal speed. David Grays' "Please Forgive Me" starts playing... if you don't know it, David sings in a slow pace, but there's a fast percussion beat going on (like JD in normal speed, background at double speed). Then the lyrics cut in...
"Please forgive me
If I act a little strange
For I know not what I do.
Feels like lightning running through my veins... (fade)".
Magic. Pure magic.
Oh. And god bless abc1 for not showing many adverts. They rock!
Fight the Bull - Download BullfighterGet the quote on the front page:
"When it was released in 2003 by Deloitte Consulting, Bullfighter was packaged …etc etc etc"
I'm sorry? This was release by a consulting company? Must have been so that they could reverse engineer it and put more consulting speak into their presentations, or to de-consult the powerpoints from their previous customers saying why they were no longer prepared to fork out $000s for 90-page powerpoing presentations.
Top 10 Windows XP Tips Of All Time - Yahoo! News:
"
Tip 6: Force unresponsive applications to close at shutdown. When it comes to balky PCs, few things annoy us more than the moment when we try to shut down Windows and it tells us it can't because some crashed application isn't responding, and that we have to do it ourselves by clicking the End Now button.
This registry hack changes that. Here's how it works.
1. Launch RegEdit (select Start > Run, type regedit and click OK) and browse to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop
2. Find the string called AutoEndTasks. Right-click it, select Modify from the pop-up menu, and change the data value from 0 to 1. (If you can't find this string, create it by selecting Edit > New > String Value and set the data value to 1.)
3. Close RegEdit and reboot. "
Ah, bliss.
On
this page and
this one.
'Nuff said.
The Stella Awards:
"The Stella Awards were inspired by Stella Liebeck. In 1992, Stella, then 79, spilled a cup of McDonald's coffee onto her lap, burning herself. A New Mexico jury awarded her $2.9 million in damages, but that's
not the whole story. Ever since, the name "Stella Award" has been applied to any wild, outrageous, or ridiculous lawsuits -- including
bogus cases! We search for true cases, and you can subscribe by e-mail for free to get the case reports as they're issued. "
Here's one of the latest.
Ahem.
And I quote: '...
one of the U.K. cases I discussed in my essay, where a trespasser at a warehouse and fell through the roof. He was awarded 567,000 pounds (US$1.06 million), which he said he'd spend on a "flash car" and "a big house so I have a place to live with me mum when she gets out of jail." '
Jesus wept. For so many reasons.
Get this:
Micro Thermoelectric Generators - Geekologie. Is this the start of the Matrix?
Here's something odd. If one of your gran's has ever had a canary or budgie (isn't it funny how certain types of pets fall out of fashion - do you know anyone under 70 who's got a bird in a cage?), you'll be familiar with the idea of a bird bath.
The bird gets in the tub, hunkers down, spreads it's wings, and shimmies. All very entertaining for a 9-year old, I'm sure.
Well, there was me (I'm getting to the point here) standing on Partick station platform the other day, and I spot this bird (easy boys... of the feathered variety.. and no I don't mean a feathered boa). It was a big bird (no, not THAT big bird)... a rook, raven, or something all in black. The sort of thing Death would have on his shoulder. And it was doing the whole hunkerdown-spread-shimmy routine (OK, so Death's bird obviously wouldn't do that as it wouldn't be cool).
But .. and here's the bizarre bit... the day was in the middle of that mini-heatwave, so no water was lying around from recent rainfall.
So, thought I, what the heck was the bird doing?
Turns out that it had found a near-empty can of special brew or similar, rolled it along the ground a bit until the whole was nearest the ground, and some beer fell out. The bird then did the shimmying thing. Then it rolled the can some more to get the next bit of beer, and shimmied in that new puddle. And again. And again, until it rolled the can off the edge of the platform.
[At that point I moved upstream, so to speak, so that said can wouldn't fly up and decapitate me when the next non-stopping train shot through at 100mph].
Clever bird eh?
Just by coincidence, I've recently read two novels about WW2 and specifically about the concentration camps and Hitler's desire for a pure Aryan culture. And it's set me thinking...
I think he might have missed a couple of points.
1. He wasn't exactly Aryan himself, now was he?
2. Genetics 101:What happens when you interbreed people of similar genetic material? You get more and more of the dominant genes, right? More blonde, more pale skinned, more blue eyes, etc. Well, probably. But you also get more and more mutations appearing. Witness other cultures where there is a strong coercive pressure to interbreed amongst one's own type (eg, the royals).
So today, the Aryan's would probably be the most deformed group of people in western europe.
And who said that a just God doesn't exist??
OK, here's how the net works as I understand it:
1. As a home user, I pay my ISP for the amount of bandwidth I use (more or less). If I want to read email only, I get a nice cheap dial up account. If I want to download streaming videos, torrent the latest 24 series in one day, or play Halo 2 24x7 with 16 mates, then I pay for the extra bandwidth.
2. As a business, if I want a simple 10 page website detailing my operation, I get a nice cheap hosting account. If I want to host streaming video to 10 million people, I pay a wee tadge more for my hosting.
3. As an ISP/network access middle-man, I pay my upstream provider more money for more bandwidth, and as a core backbone provider, I charge ISPs for the amount of bandwidth they use, and if I want to increase the bandwidth I make available to ISPs, I charge them more, and then fork out on new infrastructure and staff.
Nice and simple. At each stage of the game, everyone pays more money for more bandwidth.
But now, big businesses want to change the rules:
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Politics (Network Neutrality)Under these proposed US laws, if Amazon want to send their data to me, they'll have to pay more to the network providers than Barnes and Noble
to send me the data I've requested, using bandwith which both Amazon and myself have already paid for.
How fucking twisted is that?
(and no, I've no idea how this will work in practice... if I type in "amazon.com", do I end up at bandn.com?I'm not sure.. but if Congress pass it, the networks will find a way...)
Read this:
Independent Online Edition > Environment"Invisible 'smog', created by the electricity that powers our civilisation, is giving children cancer, causing miscarriages and suicides and making some people allergic to modern life, new scientific evidence reveals"
Right, so having your mains powered alarm clock by your head is bad (that's the truth, plenty of evidence to show it upsets your sleep patterns... not least by going off just when you get into that dream with you and Michelle and the cat suit where she.... oops, getting carried away again)... where were we.... oh yes, ..... having your mains powered alarm clock by your head is bad, but using a mobile next to your ear, and living underneath a great big fucking pylon are alright for you??
Ooookaaayyyy...
I've said if before and I'll say it again. When I spent 2 weeks in an engineering lab at Motorola, working with the base stations that sit underneath every cellular aerial you see dotted around, I had a raging headache for 2-3 days when I first started. The old boys explained that everyone get's that... "it's to do with the power kicked out by those things".
OK, so mobile phones kick out alot less power than base stations. But then I don't sit with a base station 1 inch from my brain, groin (front jeans pocket), heart (jacket pocket).
Or my hip: remember in the '80s when phones got small enough to carry around, but were too big to fit in a pocket, and the nice mobile phone companies made us pay £60 for a leather pouch to put on our jean belt hooks???
Do you also remember that cancer of the hip and lower spine soared in the 80's?
Today's lesson: don't have your mobile on you all the time. Put it on the desk.
A small site, but worth a look:
FreakStreets.comI love the comment against "Big Mamma Drive"...
NB: "Meso" refers to the newbie spammer picking "mesothalemia" (aka asbestos-related cancer) for their first site, so that they can earn a commission on the (reported) $50 per click that lawyers pay Google.
Only problem is - lawyers have cottoned on to Google's ability to PREVENT their ads being shown anywhere except on Google's own sites, so the newly-built meso site get's ads about unrelated shite.
Kind of an in-joke, I guess.
Wayfaring Map - JacktrackerBut don't tell Jack. He'll kill mwe4prodj...................
That last bit was Andy's corpse hitting the keyboard. I've also been tracking your IP address to where you are right now, and I'm en route. Don't run, it's a waste of time. Chill, enjoy your last cup of coffee.J
Memoryshrine » Mess with MSN Messenger 7.5Get it. Get rid of all that junk stuff MS include.
'Nuff said.
Although the person who wrote this could do with learning things like capitals, use of bold/italic to add emphasis, oh, and maybe even linking to
mess.be instead of just writing "mess.be"
Take a look at this: photos of last night's superb thunderstorm, sent in by normal people:
BBC picturesNow, I use the word "normal" very guardedly.
Actually, I think they must be psychics, of the type that can predict the future.
Why?
Well, my digital camera takes about... oh.... let me see... 4.34 minutes to focus after I press the button. you can here the gyroscope building speed up whilst it does so. And the mouse clambers out of it's comfy bed and starts doing warm up exercises before it jumps on the wheel.
And yet, not only did a dozen people manage to press their digital camera button in time for the camera to focus
JUST AS THE LIGHTNING STRUCK.... but they also picked the exact 20-30 degrees of arc that the lightning was
ABOUT TO LAND IN!!!Someone calls James Rand... I'm sure his 1 million quid for a proven psychic must be looking a bit close to being claimed now!
Then call the National Enquirer.
