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BBC's snappy answers to climate-change denial

November 13, 2007 6:28am

Climate change has not been shown to be actually occurring. There's nothing new here to convince me. I've yet to see any good response to Christopher Monckton's pieces in the Telegraph

You haven't bothered to look, have you? George Bush says it's wrong, and Michael Crichton says it's wrong, and the opinions of such Deep Thinkers are good enough for you. Here's just one, you might use Google to discover the others for yourself.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1947248,00.html

90-year-old smoker injured when her oxygen tank causes fire

October 19, 2007 11:38am

The headline is missing a strategic 'r', which renders it nonsensical.

Interview with Ridley Scott, Blade Runner: The Final Cut

September 27, 2007 11:29am

Wired: How did you decide to tell a 21st-century story in a 1940s style?

Instant giveaway that the interviewer did zero prep for the interview. This question is answered by multitudes of articles and definitively by the Blade Runner book. The answer is more interesting than Ridley Scott has time to soundbite in the interview, but the noir aspect was the conceit of the original screenwriter, Hampton Fancher.

And, yes, I clicked through, and the rest of it is the same. All questions which could have been answered using Google and that book.

Phasor3000: this is not Lucas-style revisionism, as Ridley Scott isn't attempting to crush all previous versions of the movie (_all_ the versions of Blade Runner are included in the special edition).

Gateway One Computer Images Leaked

September 26, 2007 12:46pm

It's not sourced from the iMac. It's a copy of the Gil Amelio-era 20th Anniversary Mac. It's less ugly, but that's not hard.

Bobby Darrin's Custom-Made Mellotron on eBay

September 26, 2007 10:26am

It's considered to be the first sampling keyboard

No, that would require that it actually, you know, sample. These sounds were prerecorded at the factory. There are no record heads on this machine. Playback was complicated enough!

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