Four Corners this evening (about some nutters claiming that the Chinese discovered New Zealand. Nutters who have sold many copies of their book though) was followed by a message about an ACMA ruling (about a story that aired two years ago!). This included a URL for the ACMA site. Wherein you can find a lot of investigations into such shows as A Current Affair, 60 Minutes and others.
According to the Wikipedia and other sources, David Gemmell has passed away following heart surgery (apparently probably also as a long term result of not giving up smoking).
Having been asked for ID whilst I was photographing the Motorola building from the street (It’s the architecture stupid), it seems like such foolishness is perpertrating itself elsewhere in the country (at a Melbourne Shopping Centre, for example
SBS are screening Anatomy for Beginners at 10pm Monday. It’s a series of public autopsy ‘highlights’ with explanations.
Well, if it’s too dangerous for Australia’s UN soldiers, I’m guessing it’s not a particularly great place for civilians to be either.
It’s probably a bad idea to give an uninvited shoulder rub to the the Chancellor of Germany. Especially if you’re the President of the USA.
Now on SBS (10pm Thursday). Full of John Stewarty goodness.
Dr Barry J. Green, Directorate of Energy European Commission, will be giving a lecture at UWA’s Ross Lecture theatre tomorrow night (Wed 26th July 2006) on Fusion Energy and the ITER Project, the Next Step to a Sustainable Future.
Hopefully between the Chinese and the European research we’ll be firing up the fusion reactors before we have to resort to building more fission reactors. Of course I’m sure then there’ll be much more research into directed energy weapons given the abundant power. But then we can use them to launch spacecraft.
Science Song
(Tune: Peer’s Chorus - Iolanthe)
We are the studes of highest station
Paragons of Education
We ar the builders of the nation
Tantantara, tzing boom, tzing boom,
Tantantara, tzing boom, tzing boom.
Chorus:
Bow, bow, ye Engineers and Law men
Bow, bow, ye Medicos and Strawmen*
There is no defiance to the march of Science
Tantantara, tzing boom, tzing boom.
* Seeds
We can feel it in our interior
There is no doubt that we are superior
To the common type of posterior**
Tantantara,etc.
** Bum.
Chorus:
We like to swot and feel it our mission
To learn such things as nuclear fission
But we don’t think much of prohibition
Tantantara,etc.
Chorus:
Some interesting searches that have lead to this site
But really lots of people were just looking for NCIS Transcripts.
