December 2009
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Anyway, I'm off.
I have to get ready to bring in the new year tonight. See you next year!
Anything else?
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Bonus: Some shows with good concepts; poor...
01: ADbc (AUS comedy historical quiz show)
02: Battlestar Galactica (US science fiction)
03: The IT Crowd (UK comedy)
04: Moving Wallpaper (fairly good) / Echo Beach (terrible) (UK dual comedy/drama)
05: Popetown (UK comedy animation)
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Just fifty TV shows I enjoy and recommend
01: 30 Rock (US comedy)
02: ABC News Breakfast (AUS news)
03: The Adventures of Tintin (FRA/CAN animation)
04: Arrested Development (US comedy)
05: Band of Brothers (US war miniseries)
06: The Big Bang Theory (US comedy)
07: Black Books (UK comedy)
08: Boston Legal (US comedy)
09: Breaking Bad (US drama)
10: Catalyst (AUS science news)
11: The Colbert Report (US news comedy)
12: Curb Your Enthusiasm (US comedy)
13: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (US news comedy)
14: Dexter (US drama)
15: Doctor Who and 'Confidential' (UK science fiction)
16: The Everyday Happenings of Weebl and Sometimes His Friend Bob (Web animation)
17: Extras (UK comedy)
18: Flight of the Conchords (US/NZ musical comedy)
19: Frasier (US comedy)
20: Foreign Correspondent (AUS news)
21: The Graham Norton Show (UK variety)
22: The Gruen Transfer (AUS news comedy)
23: The Hollowmen (AUS comedy)
24: Hornblower (UK historical war drama)
25: Hungry Beast (AUS news comedy)
26: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (US comedy)
27: John Safran vs God (AUS comedy documentary)
28: John Safran's 'Race Relations' (AUS comedy documentary)
29: Lateline (AUS news)
30: Lawrence Leung's 'Choose Your Own Adventure' (AUS comedy)
31: The Mighty Boosh (UK comedy)
32: NEWStopia (AUS news comedy)
33: Never Mind the Buzzcocks (UK comedy quiz show)
34: The Oblongs (US comedy animation)
35: The Office (UK+US comedies)
36: Over There (US war drama)
37: Parks and Recreation (US comedy)
38: Peep Show (UK comedy)
39: Q&A (AUS discussion panel)
40: Qi (UK comedy quiz show)
41: Seinfeld (US comedy)
42: Sharpe (UK historical war drama)
43: Skins (UK drama)
44: Sleeper Cell (US drama)
45: South Park (US comedy animation)
46: Stargate Atlantis (US science fiction)
47: Stargate SG1 (US science fiction)
48: The United States of Tara (US drama)
49: Weeds (US comedy)
50: The West Wing (US drama)
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Bonus: Some shows I haven't seen, but want to...
01: Eureka (US drama)
02: Life on Mars (UK+US dramas)
03: The Wire (US drama)
04: Stargate: Universe (US science fiction)
05: Torchwood (UK science fiction)
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Bonus: Some shows I liked, but have lost their...
01: Heroes (US drama)
02: Lost (US mystery drama)
03: My Name is Earl (US comedy)
04: Scrubs (US comedy)
05: The Simpsons (US comedy)
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Does everyone else hate the reblogging format like...
With the lines, and the squishing of text, and the unwanted indentations, and did I say the lines?
MOST OF ALL THOUGH, THE CONFUSION!
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So, you bastard Brits...
plaidlemur:
electronsbro:
plaidlemur: I’ve just discovered ‘Peep Show’, and I’m very disappointed that you held that out on us Americans. And digestives—the ones with the milk chocolate on one side, but plain on the other? Those too. And lots of other stuff, I bet. Lots. When I find out what it is I’m going to get angry again. I won’t get more angry though because I will have calmed down about...
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So, you bastard Brits...
plaidlemur: I’ve just discovered ‘Peep Show’, and I’m very disappointed that you held that out on us Americans. And digestives—the ones with the milk chocolate on one side, but plain on the other? Those too. And lots of other stuff, I bet. Lots. When I find out what it is I’m going to get angry again. I won’t get more angry though because I will have calmed down about this by then—but I’ll be just...
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“Q: How many times larger is a trillion than a million? Would you say…
*...”
– Poll: How many millions are in a trillion? – Econ4U.org (via nickdouglas)
Well, are we talking in short scale or long scale?
PS: Long scale of course (in the US), I’m just showing off.
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"What is Unobtainium anyway?" →
everythinginthesky:
Neatorama has some problems with ‘Avatar’ and proposes a theory as to how to explain some of its plot-holes.
“Unobtainium is a humorous name for any extremely rare, costly, or physically impossible material needed to fulfill a given design for a given application.”
That’s it: it means it’s an impossible-to-get-at substance. And no, for those of you that are asking that...
On Mosquitos
Mum: They prefer blondes.
Me: I believe you're thinking of gentlemen.
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Sometimes...
…I think things like “This album is pretty average, there are only one or two good songs, maybe three if you drop your standards.”
Then I think to myself “Well it’s not like you could even make one of the average songs, so just shut up and enjoy it for what it is.”
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“The initial stability of Najibullah’s government [after the Soviet withdrawal]...”
– Nikolas K. Gvosdev: The Soviet victory that never was - Foreign Policy.
“I live in a small world — the world of entertainment, musicians, writers...”
– Garrison Keillor: Garrison Keillor responds to his readers - Salon.
I seem to disagree with you a lot @indefensible, but you know what? I enjoy disagreeing with you, because if I didn’t have you to disagree with, I wouldn’t have many people to disagree with. Also, I wouldn’t...
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“An increasing number of retailers, marketers and ad agencies are using elements...”
– How online retailers read your mind - New York Times Gadgetwise blog
Advertising was always an industry I was interested in becoming involved with, and in some ways still am. At some point however, I realised how much advertising is based on the exploitation of the consumer, and it really...
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I still write Google reviews, by the way. →
They weren’t all done today, I just updated them a little bit so the dates changed.
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A century of racing fashion →
Interesting photo essay about Australian racing fashion (only womens’ fashion, AS USUAL). If you’re not too interested, you’ve at least got to hold out until the 1970s and 80s. I guess if peer pressure can make us subject a screaming man to ever increasing electric shocks, then it can make us wear horrible attire.
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FYI, I have another tumblr now guys. →
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Line in the sand: Rio Cracks down on beach... →
Under rules aimed at bringing order to Rio’s famous beaches, ball games are among the undesirable activities being curtailed or banned as the city that will host a World Cup and Olympics within seven years seeks to clean up its act….
Rio state this month hired former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who takes credit for cleaning up the Big Apple, to help advise it on the Brazilian...
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“Cutscenes occasionally depict female characters dressed in revealing outfits:...”
– I’d love to be the guy who writes the booby report for the ESRB (via bobloblawslawblog)
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I'm kinda going to have to side with Londes on...
I like Natalie Portman in Garden State. I like Zoey Deschanel in Yes Man. I like Audrey Tautou in Amélie. Who knows, maybe I almost love them.
They are quirky, cute and they enjoy life. I like that. They share with me a sense of humour I am not often able to display as a responsible adult with interests in organisational behaviour, federal politics and world news. I like meeting people I...
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The Gurkhas of Helmand province (WIRED Magazine). →
Anup Kaphle recently traveled to Afghanistan’s Helmand Province to follow the soldiers of the Royal Gurkha Rifles. These young men, mostly from rural Nepal, have long been recruited for service in the British army; Kaphle followed them as they worked as trainers and mentors for the Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police.
Kaphle perhaps overstates the cultural bond between the Gurkhas and...
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Who came up with the idea that 'Avatar' is the...
I’ve heard this ‘fact’ floated a couple of times, most recently here by Karl Quinn in The Age. From what I understand though, that is false. WIRED reported that the agreed upon budget was $195 million. Wikipedia reports (through The Wrap) that the cost was $237 million, with $150 million for marketing. WIRED is probably correct that the initial budget was $195m because it...
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I asked Michael Yon what camera he would recommend
He said the Canon 5D Mark II was his favourite. It’s pretty pricey though. I found one site that was selling the body (i.e. no lens) for more than $3,000, and that was supposedly with a discount. Given that Michael Yon is an (excellent) independent war journalist, I think his recommendation would have to be pretty robust though.
I recently reflected on some tumblr discussion that said if...
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Atheism is about being proud to say "I don't know"
chapfou: I don’t know.
anotherangle: exactly!!!
xntrek: Actually …
Agnosticism is about being comfortable to say I don’t know. Atheism is about being comfortable to say I don’t believe.
indefensible: I’m a strong atheist and I find agnostics almost belligerently tedious. It’s one thing to have faith. It’s another thing to have no faith. But to go through life saying “I don’t know and...
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Project Habakkuk →
indefensible: Did you know that in WW2, they considered building ships from Pykrete — a mixture of ice and wood pulp?
Did you know that in WW2, they built the De Havilland Mosquito out of laminated plywood?
