What happened to those belt wobbling machines you see in gyms in 50s/60s movies? I guess being wobbled around the waist wasn't an effective way exercise.

I seems to remember reading that the part was originally written for Dick Sargent but he was unavailable when the show got commissioned so it went to Dick York instead. I guess the writers/producers must have been pretty happy when they got him as a replacement when York left, but by then York had made the role his own so Sargent could only ever be an imitation.

Reminds me of an early version of a ride that used to come to the annual "Hoppings" fair in Newcastle in the 70s/80s. It was called the "Dive Bombers" and there was two carriages instead of one but pretty much the same ride. They were a popular ride until one "bomber" snapped off one year and crashed into I believe the dodgems.

It's all just a knock on from record companies kaking themselves about the internet. What the major companies are loosing is their business model of being a major record label. I believe what defines a label as a "Major" is owning your own distribution as well as label/roster etc. This allows all sorts of cyclic payments to different wings of themselves (come to think of it, somewhat like those UK MPs employing their families to boost their earnings). What the internet and places like iTunes do is more than a new type of record shop, it makes redundant that lucrative distribution layer of their business model and makes it hard to pay themselves for work they don't do anymore. This means there could be more profit left which they'll have to pass to the artists rather than pay to themselves. It may not work out exactly with the figures now, but it's about what'll happen if all distribution ends up via the net, they can't set presidents of doing things differently now.

I really can't understand how corporate media still don't get or are scared of the internet. They've already had business models that give away their products for free as promotion for further sales for decades and decades, being radio and TV (and in a different way libraries). The internet they should see as the same old business model, just a evolution of the delivery technology.

As a young child I couldn't understand why they sell records when they're all free to listen to on the radio, and I guess it's the media companies are the children now.

Just like the real "nails", they're actually a type of magic mushroom, look closely.

You still get fat builders and labourers and they're doing physical work all day long.

I got this screen once. It seemed to happen for no apparent reason. I hit the refresh and it went away, never seen it again.

The UK government is considering forcing ISPs to filter out illegal file sharers unless they can come up with voluntary scheme themselves.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/09/lord_triesman_copyright_interview/

Maybe there's a mix of the album from the early stereo days in the few months before panning was "invented", where tracks were mixed either hard left, hard right, or centre. A good example of this is "Forever Changes" by "Love".

Bejesus! To figure that out the Chinese police must have Mr Monk working for them!

I think Helen Bonham-Carter's a tad too old to play Alice.

They also were caught pirating copies of "This Film Is Not Yet Rated"

Yeah, something's gotta be up those stats. You could interpret that as 82.5% of the visitors to the main page visit the homosexuality page. That page appears 11th on Google compared to 1st for Wiki's homosexuality page, so you'd think Wiki's would have at least around the same number of visits.

At work, we've been waiting six months for BT put a new line in. It's half done, there's a buried cable that doesn't attach to anything at either end.

I think this could be the making of a new "game" of trying to make clips that cause false positives, just to mess with the system.

What the hell is the "entered the text wrong" gumph? I keep getting that message.

"It's a leaf"

Well, I'd say a flower, unless you're smoking some low grade s**t.

This sort of thing has been going on in the UK for a year or two now. ISP's using traffic shaping or throttling none port 80 traffic to stop people using P2P applications. Largely down to ISP's claiming to sell "unlimited" connections/bandwidth/downloads then doing everything they technically can to try and stop you using the internet for anything other than standard html web page viewing. They hide small print in contracts saying they can kick you off the network for using such things as P2P applications, streaming video, usenet, emails with large attachments (I kid you not) etc etc. All considered "network abuse".

Richard Cheese has a take off on the Radiohead front page on his website now: http://www.richardcheese.com/

Oops, here the link to a clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cv1_Bw_sBo

The episode with "Synthesizer Patel" was my favourite.

If Apple wasn't so set into their proprietary locked down mindset that they've always had with every product, I think they could have made a real killing by releasing the iPhone simply as a piece of hardware that the user could go and put any sim card they wanted into. Sim-only contracts are common, not to mention pay as you go sims, plus the costs of an iPhone isn't subsidised by the network carrier like most handsets are so would be no more expensive to buy. They would probably be flying off the shelves if they were a plain open piece of hardware. The end user benefits in no way be being forced onto one particular network. The only thing that probably stopped the iPhone being an open piece of hardware was Apples greed in selling deals to network providers.