why wy?

two weeks more, and this will be my first stop. Anyone up for sunday lunch?

found this on boing boing, plato mashed with reservior dogs. You can get the full version here.
Best lines:
Socrates: My humble little idea goes something like this. [He is suddenly extremely loud and violent. Roars:] Justice is only the will of the stronger. What do you think about that, asshole? [Slaps Thrasymachus across the face with his gun]

Thrasymachus: Uh, uh, uh ...

Socrates: Come on ... come on, you wanna try and disprove my theory, you weak little shit? Yeah? Yeah? Shit, I think I feel a proof coming on. [Shoots him.] Why, thank you Thrasymachus, you've certainly opened my eyes.

If that didn't make you laugh, then this halloween photoshop contest will.

more geeky links, courtesy of boing boing

- remote controlled humans. Basically a headset with a powerful magnet that upsets your sense of balance, so you walk left or right, depending on who's holding the remote.
- mr calm and ms angry. step back for the optical illusion to work.
- and this card game set seems like something kev and jo would enjoy. It's like non-verbal boggle, matching shapes and colours.
- and for word geeks, beware of fake words in the dictionary. It's a copyright thing, and has become an easter egg hunt of sorts. Of course, you have to be The Times'crossword editor or something to actually know what you're talking about.

3 down, 8 to go. Or 9. I don't actually know how many exams I've got, it's too painful counting. With any luck, I am done with neuroanatomy for a long time to come. It's a tough subject with so much detail (literally), but some of the terms were truely beautiful, the way they sound, like
- septum pallucidum meaning translucent window (btw, pallucidum as a user name is taken, proving that there are other latin nerds out there)
- lemiscus, a ribbon
- pulvinar, a cushion
- habenula, reins
- flocculus, a stove
- claustrum, a bolt or barrier
- accumbent, lying against something
- declive, sloping down
- fastigial, the summit

Latin is cool. There's more terms and meanings here.

if anyone is going to a david copperfield show, don't sit in the front row. The magician plans to impregnate a girl on stage - without even touching her. Eewwww.
It's a strange trick, cos if it really is true
- he'll have a child with every performance. Won't he lose his fortune in paternity claims?
- it's not like having your $100 bill torn up and returned to you intact. Or being sawn in two. What I'm getting at is most volunteers come out of a show pretty much the same.
- presumably he will do an ultrasound on stage, a there you see it, there you don't sort of thing.
- so when the fetus disappears, is that an instant abortion as well?

On to more cheerful and meaningless topics. A couple of people have been photoshopping corporate logos onto landscapes, tourist attractions, people etc. Check out the damn solid firefox ad, as well as the nike cheetah.

just quickly,
- the coolest minister of culture in the world, gilberto gil. The Brazilian government has decided to give bill the bird, and use open source software instead of paying millions in licencing when many brazilians live in poverty.
- a flicker group of people throwing their cameras up in the air, long exposures. (see pic)
- summer is here, time to wear funky shirts. the imaginary foundation ones are pricey, especially for something that encourages you to use your creativity. The funniest one is here, a yellow shirt with blue wording, swedish mafia, efficient but deadly

ladies and gentlemen,
This is to inform you that mirili, short for the miri library, is now officially open. Well, actually the town of miri, in sarawak, doesn't have an english library. Even if it did, it wasn't going to loan books to two scruffy travelers. Which is some of us have set up a literary retreat online, for the shared discussion of good books, articles, the written word. You don't ever have to whisper and membership is, of course, free.

The nobel prizes have been given out blah blah blah, but for the real contributions to society (eg having something to talk about at the water cooler, increasing your chance of winning at trivia night), see the Ignobel awards. Here's a write up on the guy who investigated exploding trousers, and another one who catalogued the odours secreted by frogs, cashew, curry, chocolate. Maybe he mistook his freddo for the real thing.

My own contribution to rising global stupidity levels: Drove to the airport to pick mum up at 1.20 in the morning. After waiting for half an hour, this was when all the trouble makers, people who had stuff confiscated were emerging, I called the house in Singapore. She answered the phone. Crap. Time slows down during moments like this, just so that you can appreciate the utter dumbness of your actions. And I had to pay $6 for parking.

The new james bond might turn out to be james blond, and the villains, i mean, critics are already out to get him (and all the other contenders).

"Daniel Craig looks just like Vladimir Putin - the wheel has come full circle."
"His eyes are way too close together - a classic sign of a Bond villain. Perhaps he's actually going to play Hugh Grant's nemesis?"
"Robbie Williams..... its about time for the first Bond musical"
"They passed up the chance to break the mould and put a woman into the role, i don't particularly care who it would have been as long they came from south london, slept around and had a gutter mouth."
"Clive Owen has the vocal impressiveness of a call centre manager from Cheam. "
"hugh grant as bond: "well, excuse me, err, look, well i'm terribly sorry, would you mind awfully putting your hands up? no? ah, well i'm err... well that is to say I'm bond, james, errr, bond, err yes."
"Come on! It's OBVIOUS: Eddie Izzard for Bond. You know it makes sense.''

You know how everyone's always bitching, I've got the worst job in the world, well you don't. This guy has to collect boar semen. Even with the machines, he's basically giving pigs a handjob. Before you assume I've been trawling the beastality/techno fetish sites, I saw the link on boing boing, for having a cool soundtrack. The music's not bad, but can't take away from the fact that it's hard to tell people what you do at parties.

The exams are creeping nearer, maybe not creeping but knocking on the door, impatiently shuffling its feet, like a gaggle of jehovah witnesses. And what am I doing? Blogging, watching Alias, Miyazaki cartoons, House. At least House is partly medical, and by the way, completely droolsome. What every girl wants, a man to insult her, subject her to a barrage of tests, almost kill her and save her in the last 5 minutes.

I finally get to work this sunday (yah!) for cricket (yawn). It is australia vs THE WORlD. No kidding, it is a dream team of indian, english, west indies and players from other non australian places. And australia still beat them. On the up side, some of them fans dressed up as giant animals, so it might not be so boring.