I could blog this image directly but it is way to tall

Space Lane by Dinyctis

An interesting Batman spin

My Parents Are Dead

We paint the traffic boxes, what next?

Perhaps something like this?

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Daylight savings

It's approaching that time of year where Australia's time zones go all askew - causing all sorts of problems trying to work out, amongst other things, what time live sports are shown on Foxsports - and believe me - for some people that's a big deal! But I digress....

At this time of year, regular as clockwork, the debate reignites in Brisbane over whether we should step into line with the rest of the eastern states and adopt daylight savings. And every year, the pollies trot out different excuse as to why they're too weak to do so.

This year's is a real doozie. Apparently Queensland can't allow daylight savings because, in the opinion Chairman Doctor Beattie, it will increase Queenslander's exposure to skin cancer. I never realised that winding the clock forwards or backwards would actual increase or decrease out planet's exposure to the sun!!!! How amazing!!!!!!

This excuse ranks right up there with the idea that it confuses the cows and makes curtains fade faster. Why not just tell the truth? That Queensland has too many people outside the south-east corner who will be disadvantaged by such a change? That or it'll piss off too many voters? Is it really that hard for a politician to be honest these days?

Funniest "article" I have read in a while

Performance artist agrees that what he does is just rubbish

Yeah, Brisbane doesn't need more bridges.....

2 hours, 40 minutes to get home last night.

1 hour, 30 minutes to get home tonight.

And all because of the closure of one bridge.

Brisbane is constantly portrayed as a 'river city', yet it's a city who's planning has done nothing to consider it's supposed dominant geographical feature.  Think of other major cities around the world built on a river - take London for example.  How many points of crossing do you have for the Thames?  A heck of a lot more than 4 in the city centre and two on it's outskirts.

Yet look at Brisbane.  Close the Captain Cook Bridge and what are you left with?

• The Walter Taylor bridge at Indooroopilly- one lane each way and hardly close enough to the City to alleviate the congestion.
• The William Jolly Bridge - two lanes each way and who's southbound exit has been totally destroyed by a combination of the force-feeding of a buy way bridge through a major thoroughfare and the (stupid) desire to transform a former major road into a 'tree-lined boulevard that casual diners can stroll along of an evening'
• The Victoria Bridge - one lane each way - the rest have been strangled by the installation of a express bus way who's constant vomit of vehicles strangles the other bridge next to it.
• The Storey Bridge - an actual decent-sized three lanes each way but which suffers from the onslaught of everyone else being forced onto it.
• The Gateway Bridge - fine if you don't mind paying a toll (as you usually have to) or if you don't mind backtracking for 15-20 minutes to either get to the entrance of the bridge or away from it (incidentally - it took me over 40 minutes to get across this bridge tonight - perhaps further evidence that our road system has been allowed to stagnate for 20-odd years despite a booming population?).

Alot of people give Campbell Newman crap about his obsession with tunnels.  And he does seem to have a certain keenness for them.  But at least it's some kind of solution to a major problem that Brisbane faces.  People aren't going to be forced onto buses by stealing away what roads there already are for special bus only lanes.  The only people who think that are town planners green loons. 

Solving the problem of forcing anyone who wants to cross from the north to the south of this city to travel into the centre of the city would be one step.  But I won't hold my breath to see it happen.  All those poor nimby's vigorously campaigning against the construction of the Hale Street bridge might as well pack up and go home now.  Any argument that they might have made that Brisbane has enough river crossings has just gone up in car fumes.

As an aside, has anyone else ever wondered why something labeled an 'Inner City Bypass' has an exit that puts you virtually in the middle of the inner city it's trying to bypass?

Bugger

And before anyone asks, no bat's are not suppose to do that. 

An accessory too far

Why on earth would you need this as an accessory?

 I'm afraid to ask how it would 'Enhance your Experience'....

A slight calculation error?

This can't be correct.In fact, the one I eventually chose took 5 turns. 

Top 100 Facts about Chuck Norris

Full list here
Here are a few samples

Chuck Norris counted to infinity - twice.

Chuck Norris can speak braille.

If Chuck Norris is late, time better slow the fuck down.

Chuck Norris died ten years ago, but the Grim Reaper can't get up the courage to tell him.

Chuck Norris can divide by zero.

Very cool film clip

Impossible Movie 3

It didn't do poorly at the box office because the scientology midget went crazy (although that probably didn't help...), it did poorly because it was a confusingly bad movie.

How bad?  Well for starters they've tried to recycle the majority of the plot from the first movie - minus Jean Reno (never a good start).  Secondly, it looks like a cheap TV shoot with endless shots of short man running.  Say what you will about the first two movies, but at least their respective directors (De Palma and Woo) brought their own visual styles to the film.  Compared to those two, if did look like what it was - the big screen debut of a TV director.

And the bits where they weren't recycling the first film?  They looked like they had escaped from Felicity.  Soppy, silly melodrama.  Hrmmm.. Wait a minute.  That sounds an awful lot like Alias.  Minus the bad wigs of course.

But possibly my favorite dumb bit.  How do they manage to put even the slightest bit of drama into the inevitable fisticuffs between super-agent Ethan Hunt and tubby oscar winner?  By putting a bomb in his brain that buzzes to distract him!

Now that Cruise seems to be out of the movie-making business for the moment, I hope that when Paramount eventually goes ahead with MI4, they and do the thing that made the original tv show a success.  Get a team of agents to solve the problem together.  Instead of James Bond stand-in + token wisecracking black guy + background colour.

If you're really looking for a updated bond-style film I can think of a few much better options.