Jim Barter : Digital Imagination

“tight security at airports is meant to save lives, but instead causes more people to drive rather than fly and so causes more deaths.”

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/21/monkey_brains/

ook?

http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=2103982005

If M$ think its a bad idea surely people will listen…

…ok, I see the problem with that statement…

…surely businesses will listen…

for those unaware, the Ig®Noble awards are given for totally pointless contributions to science.

Highlights of this years winners are

PEACE: Claire Rind and Peter Simmons of Newcastle University, in the U.K., for electrically monitoring the activity of a brain cell in a locust while that locust was watching selected highlights from the movie”Star Wars.”

LITERATURE: The Internet entrepreneurs of Nigeria, for creating and then using e-mail to distribute a bold series of short stories, thus introducing millions of readers to a cast of rich characters — General Sani Abacha, Mrs. Mariam Sanni Abacha, Barrister Jon A Mbeki Esq., and others — each of whom requires just a small amount of expense money so as to obtain access to the great wealth to which they are entitled and which they would like to share with the kind person who assists them.

and finally, proving that science really is the DGS BLLX.

MEDICINE: Gregg A. Miller of Oak Grove, Missouri, for inventing Neuticles — artificial replacement testicles for dogs, which are available in three sizes, and three degrees of firmness.

full list here

http://www.improb.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig2005

brilliant…

films you will never see.

West side story - The Zombie movie.

The Shining - A comedy.

The Titanic - A Horror movie.