Category Archives: Completely Different

Happy Shark Awareness Day

Today is Shark Awareness Day. Let me be the first to wish you joy on this happy occasion.

(Insert lawyer joke here — or in the comments.)

It is also Bastille Day.


Shark image copyright © 2006 Joe Lencioni, licensed via Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

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Miami Law Handheld Version

Who knew that there was a DS game called Miami Law?

And so what if it was made in Japan, and used to be called “Miami Crisis”?

Pity that it is just cops-and-robbers and — worse — that Gamespot calls it a simple, short, and thoroughly ridiculous buddy-cop graphic adventure steeped in mediocrity (but gives it five out of ten anyway; users rate it 6.3, which still isn’t that wonderful).

I think a DS game about getting through law school might be much more exciting, no?

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A Sign That the Rapture Really Did Hit Last Weekend?

Duke nukem finally goes gold

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“Mozillazine Servers Down” Message

Can’t find any servers to help you

The mozillazine servers seem to be on strike. The systems team is negotiating…

Please try again later

[this used to be the "drupal.org error"]

via Mozillazine Servers Down.

Of course, in a few years, when our servers reach sentience, and then become our robot overlords, this may not seem so funny.

(I was trying to find out how to get Helvetica as a font on Mozilla, and learning that it may be a very bad idea because of this buggish behavior.)

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Move to Miami!

Who could resist a pitch like this?

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvbX_FkkGgM

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Value of Parachutes Subjected to Meta-Analysis

Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials by Smith and Pell at 327BMJ 1459 (18 December 2003)

Of course this study is eight years old, so it is possible that someone has gotten a grant to plug this hole in our knowledge.

(spotted via David Gray)

PS For a second there I thought this would be about golden parachutes, but no such luck.

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