Archive for March 2009

This Week in CSI: Fatuous Arguments

A while back … was it nearly a year ago? … it was fashionable to try to get me to like the band ROOT!. One of the arguments used was “you were a fan of TISM“. This is supposed to be persuasive because the central figure of ROOT! was a central figure of TISM. The obvious comeback is “I’m a fan of The Beatles, are you suggesting I should also be a fan of Wings?”

Cashcade

Australia’s Funniest GPS Errors: Satnav Gone Surreal.

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<Your Name> is browsing through their friends’ friends trying to find some nice jugs.

The Futurological Congress

In every poll of a group of thinkers about the future, you’ll see someone touting a form of immortality achieved by downloading one’s mind into a computer of some sort. This is an odd sort of immortality, the sort of immortality where you die.

Another favourite topic of these exercises is teleportation. For an insight into the life-preserving qualities of teleportation, I urge you to see The Prestige. (But watch out, I found the film horrifying, in the literal sense.)

Detective Pitch

The Household Disharmony Mysteries … The show’s increasingly desperate exhumations, autopsies, forensic tests, database searches and footslogging are obviously aimed at turning an obvious death by natural causes into a possible murder, all in the name of keeping the detective away from the horror of his home life.