Just to break the monotony of my text, here’s a fun image someone pointed me to – it came from here.

Yes, we all know that in many ways Hollywood’s grasp of science is weak – but it is still fun to read in some detail why some things that you see on screen make no sense. And the creator of this site does point out some things that I hadn’t thought of, like:

“A single inexpensive passive sensor can be used to detect the presence of human motion for an entire room. While multi-beamed laser security systems are not impossible, there’s usually no reason to use one…

…When a sniper looks through the telescopic sight on his rifle, he knows where the bullet is going to go relative to the crosshairs. Adding a laserbeam would do nothing except tip off the victim that he’s about to be shot and give him time to duck before the bullet arrived. It would also help reveal the sniper’s location.

Hitting a moving target using a laser sight would be extremely difficult. The sniper would have to lead the subject and so the red dot would be projected in front of the target where it could easily be lost in the background.”

… to say nothing of the fact that a laser won’t help you aim if there is any wind…

The writer also gives mini reviews of several popular movies discussing just how scientifically accurate they are (usual answer: not very)

Thanks again to Harald/chk for the link…

… on BBC Radio 4 and you can listen to it online if you miss it live (or don’t live here). It’s not really a proper quiz show – it’s just an excuse for comedians to read out funny clips from odd UK newspapers and make fun of what has happened in the news that week. It may be hard to follow if you aren’t in or from the UK, but it is certainly more savagely satirical and entertaining than its American equivalent, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me.for loans 10000 credit badunion air credit federal academymill accreditation0 credit interest offers cardcredit credit accept card cardsadvancial union creditservices americredit financialincorrect payments americredit Map

Found magazine on the web contains a lot of fascinating notes and pictures found all over the world. Once you’ve thoroughly checked out the site there are some links to more…

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Todd is a Flash programmer, unaccountably unemployed, who produces hilarious, bitter vignettes about the life of a laid-off dotcom slacker. He’s just produced a new one.

From everyone’s favourite trusted news source – The Onion.alltel ringtone free totally3200 lg ringtones alltelnokia 3510i free ringtone logologo ringtone free 6610 nokiaringtone samsung a900free ringtone 6102 nokiawarrington 01925investment america bank harrington sec Map

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“I took off my clothes and stepped into the shower to find another one sitting near the drain. It was about 2 feet tall and made of metal, with bright camera-lens eyes and a few dozen gripping arms. Worse than the Jehovah’s Witnesses.

`Hi! I’m from Google. I’m a Googlebot! I will not kill you.’

‘I know what you are.’

‘I’m indexing your apartment.’… ”

Continues here… I thought it was quite funny (but that probably means I should get out more).teen sexy asianand outside shitting peeingcum viginapooping pissingmum fucking sister brotherlesbian free ariel comic bellehairy busty kendrainterracial blacksonblondes Map