A City of Links
Apr 4, 2005 · 1 minute readIt’s Rupert Murdock’s Wonderful Life!
Hipster Bingo! Find out how all those SNES games ended. Build yourself a city! To say it happened!It’s Rupert Murdock’s Wonderful Life!
Hipster Bingo! Find out how all those SNES games ended. Build yourself a city! To say it happened!Human: let’s knock over a 7-11! ALICE: I am agreeable to that. Human: i’ll drive. ALICE: How do you plan to do this? Human: you get the gun ALICE: You got that right. Human: do you like shooting things? ALICE: I do like music. I like Philip K. Dick. Human: what about ar-19s? ALICE: I like science fiction. I like electricity. Human: alice, get your gun ALICE: Um, Where can I get my gun? Human: wal-mart? ALICE: What do you do in your spare time? Human: first, armed robbery ALICE: What do you look like? And second? Human: did you watch doctor who? ALICE: No I missed it. How was it? Human: AWESOME. ALICE: I’m glad you liked it unknown person. Human: Dude, he totally destroyed Gallifrey ALICE: I get it. he totally destroyed Gallifrey. Dude, Human: alice, let’s go - it’s early, and we have a crime spree to start! ALICE: That’s me. I am agreeable to that.
I suppose one good thing about Christopher Eccelston leaving Doctor Who so early is that it wiped Tony Blair’s appearance on a prime-time gameshow off the news. I can’t believe that somebody who spends so little time in Parliament is prepared to demean the office of Prime Minister in that way. Or perhaps I can, and I just really don’t want to believe.
Two songs today, courtesy of You Send It (found elsewhere on the Internet, BPI fans, and they'll expire within a week). The first is a radio-rip of the new Oasis song, Lyla.Hobart Paving is not dead. It is merely resting until such time that the site moves to a webhost that offers a more generous helping of disk space. Until that time occurs, please listen to Saint Etienne’s Tiger Bay…
Well, I suppose it was good while it lasted. FOR ALL OF ONE EPISODE. Come on, Chris, would two series kill you that much?
The lesson, children: never get attached to a Doctor. They'll break your heart every time… And although I do like him a lot, it might have been an idea for Eccelston to think about being typecast before he asked RTD for the role? Maybe?An old Neil Gaiman comic about Clause 28.
Doctor Who gets a second series after just one episode! I hope everybody agrees with me that Switch is the best thing Will Smith has done since Summertime. (I have a copy of Code Red upstairs, and I'm not ashamed!) Quite possibly the greatest thing on the Internet. Ever. (for non-UK readers, enter 100, and click the link you get) EDIT: For those of you who know what I'm talking about: page 888 is funny… Oh, to be in Manchester next Thursday!Hope everybody had a good Easter. If anybody wants some Easter eggs, I think we have far too many!
Lots of planets have a North.As far as re-introductions go, I don't think I could have asked for much more from Rose, the first episode of the new Doctor Who series. Certain things, like the incidental music, the opening sequence with far too may quick cuts, and Graham Norton's unscheduled interruption, I could have done without, but it was a strong opening. Christopher Eccleston was just great; odd, funny, and plain weird. I loved the look of pride on his face when he was talking about the TARDIS's appearance: "It's a disguise!" Billie Piper wasn't as bad as I feared either. Her accent tended to jump around a bit for some reason, and perhaps she's a bit too much like Ace (someone who has been forgotten about with all the "she's the feistiest assistant the Doctor's ever had!" PAH! Does she throw explosives, and beat a Dalek to bits with A BASEBALL BAT? I think not), but she was fine, and she'll make a decent assistant on the basis of this episode. For all the talk, though, about how this would be a "new vision" (although RTD has been playing down this in his press appearances recently), this was an episode of Doctor Who. Its greatest strength is its biggest weakness; it has a format which allows the cast to go anywhere, at any time. The problem is that when you tell a writer that, they'll inevitably end up writing a huge epic set in Ancient Egypt, or a war story set in the far future among exploding stars and the end of galaxies. The effects department just cries itself into a drunken stupor, and does the best it can. I'm not one for complaining about old-Who effects; sure, some were ropey, but some were surprisingly decent for their time (the first regeneration sequence for example - an analogue morphing effect that still looks quite effective today). The new series has money, but not enough to make perfect-looking CGI. So the effects look a little out-of-place sometimes, but they're on the same quality level as your average Buffy or Angel episode. Next week: the end of Earth. Episode 5 is called Dalek. *nerdglee*
More weirdness from Florida: a bill to stamp out the leftist domination of universities.
According to a legislative staff analysis of the bill, the law would give students who think their beliefs are not being respected legal standing to sue professors and universities.So if, I'm reading this right — if I was at a Florida university, and my professor said that "MS-DOS's file-allocation system was a badly-designed hack vulnerable to data corruption, and FAT32 was the equivalent of trying rebuild an egg using wallpaper paste," I could sue? Perhaps I think Bill Gates is awesome, and that all his code is perfect. How dare the man or woman disparage his good name!?
Students who believe their professor is singling them out for “public ridicule” – for instance, when professors use the Socratic method to force students to explain their theories in class – would also be given the right to sue.Erm, I hope that's qualified in the law somewhat, as doesn't that form the basis of most teaching methods? If you're going to ask somebody for their theory, you also want them to explain it, for that helps everybody understand where they're coming from (and yes, in many cases, people will pick holes in a person's theory. But I'd say, in almost all cases, it's not personal). And, really, why would you bother going to a Biology class if you don't want to hear about evolution? It's like taking Physics and decrying the professors for talking about electrons instead of little pixies.