The human animals exhibited the more interesting behaviour by far.

Yes, I belong to the "humans suck" school of thought.

There's an old Wired article written by none other than neal stephenson about the laying of undersea cabling. I believe this is it, though I haven't re-read it yet:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html?topic=&topic_set=

I know it could be simply marked down as good journalism, but I found it disturbing that she was attempting to get him to say anything pertaining to the validity of the allegations, or to issue apologies towards the alleged victims (an apology would implicitly admit there was wrongdoing). Anything he said at that point could conceivably have been used against him. He deftly sidestepped those questions, but her persistence was creepy.

>> ^Reefie:

Graham Norton is great, enjoyed seeing him take the mickey out of Daniel Radcliffe at the start of the show This recital by Mr Radcliffe just reeked of trying too hard to impress unfortunately, and I found myself cringing during this part of the show... I'm not sure if I should upvote this just for Daniel Radcliffe's self-humiliation, but given that it spoiled the rest of a pretty good show I'm struggling!


Erm yes. But, sadly, in the end we still don't give a damn. Tah tah!

I love the deafening silence as everyone comes to terms with the fact that they are witnessing an early key speech by a vice-presidential candidate under Sarah Palin's 2012 ticket.

I like how slowed down audio makes people sound like cows.

I have a confession to make: I think Ricky Gervais is brilliant, but if I have to listen to him laugh again, I'm going to run over some babies with a steam roller. There, I said it.

What?

Nice links! Would be interesting to see that fallout map correlated with cancer prevalence per capita....

>> ^alizarin:

1) They forgot Israel and South Africa in 1979... that would make it 2054.
2) This diagram is awesome.
Looks like the atmospheric vs underground count vs underwater counts are:
US 206/912/5
USSR 223/756/3
UK 21/24
France 50/160
China 22/26
India 0/6
South Africa/Isreal 1/0
Pakistan 0/7
North Korea 0/1
3) The fallout map is fun.
4) The Nevada and Kazakhstan need to surrender already

Um...wind, or having someone steal it are the first two reasons that immediately spring to mind.

>> ^residue:

Would be a little more efficient to just roll out the white boundaries AFTER you park the car... not sure why you need the road-colored part

and if those were orca and the victims seal pups: oh, the horror.

I'll agree with you on most points Lawdeedaw, except for putting all belief/faith on the same level. Unfortunately our language doesn't have two (or more) different words for the difference of belief between believing the tooth fairy is real, and that our spouse will not cheat on us.

We may be wrong (or right) about both the above beliefs, but obviously one is demonstrably more sane than the other (ie there certainly exist people in this world who don't cheat, and one can "believe" there is a high probability that their spouse is one of them, based on what they know about them, how they act etc).

I want one.

You have just watched a video of a guy spanking it.

I feel admiration with not a shred of envy. Odd.