Chasing My Own Tale
Dean Stockwell‘s line in the last episode of Season 2 of BattleStar Galactica:
I’m not a fracking Zylon! I’m not…
(Sees fellow identical Cylon in brig)
Oh, well then…
It doesn’t come across well in text, but Stockwell plays it perfectly. Well done Brother Cavell. (Which Cylon model is he?)
Fortune Magazine ran this great, longish article on the car that we bought late last year The Birth of the Prius:
Today Wada explains Okuda’s order philosophically. “This is always how it is,” he says. “The top management is not going to give detailed instructions on technology. As long as engineers come up with solutions by the deadline, that is fine.” As Watanabe, who also had a lot riding on the decision, puts it, “Everything was challenging about the development of the Prius.”
It’s a great run down on the workings at Toyota. It’s also an interesting study of the relationship between engineering and business management.
Okay so those guys have been working on the ‘invisibility cloak‘ sort of stuff but really, should they simply be concerned with breaking up the edges of the the wearer’s profile? The central areas can have the look of a yellow bicycle, but as long as the edges don’t look like a person, the ‘target’ won’t be recognized.
From the places I’d like to be, conferences I’d like to attend file:
Digital Web Magazine – News – South by Northwest:
South by Northwest sponsored by Blue Flavor, Bryght, Newsvine and Raincity Studios. There will be lots of beer, wine and margaritas to suck down. Be sure to bring your digital cameras because there is nothing more bloggable than drunken web geek celebrities.
Have a great time guys!
I love stuff like this:
BBC NEWS | Magazine | 100 things we didn’t know this time last year
74. It takes a gallon of oil to make three fake fur coats.
75. Each successive monarch faces in a different direction on British coins.
76. The day when most suicides occurred in the UK between 1993 and 2002 was 1 January, 2000.
77. The only day in that time when no-one killed themselves was 16 March, 2001, the day Comic Relief viewers saw Jack Dee win Celebrity Big Brother.
78. One in 18 people has a third nipple.
From Mike Industries comes Design a Steve Jobs Movie Poster contest. “The theme of the final Mike Industries iPod Creativity Competition of 2005 is to design a movie poster featuring Steve Jobs.”
High-larious! I really like “Byte Me” and “CEO, Interupted”. Some crap entries but some really good one too.
If you’ve got Flash, take a look at this… Mario Unleashed from Google Video’s archive. “Mario, Luigi, and Princess Peach take on the marimba.”
Happy New Year!