Nope timefishblue, Annika was 12 in 2001, so she's quite likely 18 or 19 by now.

Having said that, they've chosen a somewhat unattractive picture for Steve, perhaps his publicist is angling more for the freak-show market rather than the "OMG that's a Long tongue *giggle*" female market? (or male, depends on his fancy)

See, I was going to say naked woman, which would explain the grin, but that's probably more of a Freudian mind trick than reality. if you look at the original photo sequence (http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/photoessays/outdoors/06.html) it makes sense that it's his hand, and the body parts line up for that.

no naked women on Cheney's fishing trips :(

See, I was going to say naked woman, which would explain the grin, but that's probably more of a Freudian mind trick than reality. if you look at the original photo sequence (http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/photoessays/outdoors/06.html) it makes sense that it's his hand, and the body parts line up for that.

no naked women on Cheney's fishing trips :(

How are we sure that this Isn't an alternate reality, and Hitler wasn't put in place as a bumbling substitute for a different, more capable leader, reducing the overall impact of a resurgent German nation. Perhaps the massive amount of pain cause to millions of people was Less than a greater evil where the Nazis didn't lose the way, perhaps won or fought the Allies to a stalemate.

I'm just sayin' . . .

I'm going to blow my country's horn here and point out that on average, Australians generate more patents per capita than Americans do. Some say we live in a harsher land, so we have to be more ingenious. I wonder however what our rate of innovation is compared to a more rural, agrarian USA, when most people had to come up with their own tools/machines rather than simply going out and buying something. Making something yourself has a very satisfying feeling, especially if other people end up using it as well.

I have family in the US, but from now on I think I'll wait for them to come see me.

I'm sorry, but morphing someone's body to music?

Have to agree, is very nice to see Xeni showing more personality, and Mark's elegant robot should entertain kids (and by Kids I mean me) for hours. You could put different legs on it and see what happens on different surfaces.

*has an apocalyptic vision of a rave-theme dinner party where everyone is DJing their conversations and remixing them as they go* Having a conversation about particle physics during such an event might take a tad longer than expected.

And post #15 actually gets to the real controversy, with so many photographic examples of russian men (including heads of state) kissing each other on the lips, how is this work considered wrong? because it's for western consumption?

Or is it the hands on each other's arses?

anyone else notice that the sound levels in the video are really low and tend to climb about the time he's on Big Ben?

When I was a kid flying on a plane about '89 or so, the flight attendants picked me and the girl sitting next to me (both unaccompanied minors) to go visit the cockpit, see the weather radar, etc. She even got to do a few rounds as a flight attendant, but I was too chicken back then to do something like that. I Did get to see The Big Steal, very cool Australian movie (shot on location in Melbourne), but afterwards none of my relatives would believe that I got to see a movie because of the relatively short flight (Sydney to Perth). Short movie though, really enjoyed it.

I can't agree with the sensationalist spin of this post, phrenology purported to predict personality based on skull contours, which have never been known to have any correlation to just about anything, except your parent's, sibling's and children's skulls.

Now if you give me a few seconds (or better yet minutes) of video of someone walking around (as long as they don't know they're being observed), I could probably tell you something about them, an approximate age, how they're feeling, etc.

Of course, the terrorists probably train to avoid a similar kind of surveillance anyway, they know that human guards are going to be watching them and train to behave 'normally', sure, it's going to take longer to train how to behave to not trigger an algorithm (assuming they have some information about it), but it's not impossible.

That being said, while this may or may not actually be a good way of catching crooks/terrorists/people who dislike the government (anyone remember how they wanted to track crooks by body odor), it's Slightly (heavy sarcasm) more advanced and a bit better science than phrenology.

I think you're going to get too many false positives, how do you know that a person is nervous about catching an important flight/upcoming board meeting/wedding proposal/first plugging (anal sex) session/(insert really big event here).

And yes, I Do think that having anal sex during a board meeting whilst making a wedding proposal and on board an airplane would be downright Sexy! *goes to write in his Big Book of Things To Do*

Was trying to find the link to all of the other BB TV vids, then I found this tiny little grey link at the top of the page. Trying to hide it because this is still a beta? Come on guys, making it Blue or something. (I dunno, what color is "TV"?)

*sigh* It's sad because it's true.