The Top 50 Science Fiction Shows of All Time

If you are a sci-fi fan like me, you should check out this list at Boston.com. It has some unlikely choices ("Xena: Warrior Princess"?!) but is generally a good list. Enjoy!

Are You LOST yet?

Is that "Kate"?

So I am up watching South Park on UPN, and this commercial comes on for LiveLinks, a telephone "dating" service, and I would swear that the woman who extolls the virtues of LiveLinks is Kate from LOST. Hmmm..... anyone else seen this ad?

I am NOT A REPUBLICAN, but ...

... this is damned funny!!

From a Great "Arrested Develepment" Tonight!

I stole this from the web! If you don't know why this is funny, YOU AREN'T PAYING ATTENTION!!!

Uh Oh! A Docu on the Failed Kerry Campaign!!

from: http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/349883p-298362c.html

Kerry's not- so-amazing race, on film

I hear that John Kerry loyalists are kicking themselves for cooperating last year with filmmaker Steve Rosenbaum on "Inside the Bubble," a potentially devastating behind-the-scenes look at the Massachusetts senator's failed presidential campaign.
I'm also told that Hillary Clinton partisans are licking their chops to see the film, which "could end up being the silver bullet that kills Kerry's presidential chances for 2008," says a Lowdown spy.

Kerry spinmeister David Wade - one of the senior staffers who allowed Rosenbaum to film his private moments - tried to dismiss Rosenbaum's effort as "a childish home movie destined to be forgotten."

Wade E-mailed me: "The 20 poor souls subjected to this movie will be reaching for caffeine and begging for old Lamar Alexander tapes on C-Span 2. Michael Moore has nothing to fear. I think the working title was 'The Snore Room.'"

But people who've screened the documentary say it's compelling and revealing.

It features, among other not-ready-for-prime-time moments, Clinton scowling and rolling her eyes over an apparent Kerry gaffe during a presidential debate; Kerry pretending to interview himself and babbling in Italian while waiting for a real interview to begin; Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) cursing at reporters during a campaign stop, and Kerry message guru Robert Shrum confidently declaring a few days before the 2004 election: "Zogby [a prominent pollster] just announced who's gonna win. Us!"

Shrum told me he personally didn't cooperate with the movie, which captures him on camera only a couple of times.

Asked if he plans to see it, he answered: "Absolutely not."

As for media critic Michael Wolff - who severely slags off the Kerryites at regular intervals - "I refused to be interviewed by [Rosenbaum], even though at one point he called me from his bespoke tailor."

A press release claims the movie - which won't be shown publicly until Thursday - "turns a harsh but deeply revealing mirror on the campaign ... a disorganized, contentious, self-absorbed team that thought they could win by 'not making mistakes,' and keeping their candidate in the public eye without clarifying a position on anything."

Director Rosenbaum, meanwhile, told me: "I'm a lifelong Democrat and I supported Kerry. I think people will see the film as fair, and maybe searing."

An Interesting Article from Snopes.Com

I came across this article on the great urban legend site, Snopes.com, and thought I'd share it, because of the very interesting take on the meaning of the legend:

Glurge: Christian girl who prays for protection while walking home late one night is saved from rape by two angels who keep her safe.

Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2000]

Diane, a young Christian university student, was home for the summer. She had gone to visit some friends one evening and the time passed quickly as each shared their various experiences of the past year.

She ended up staying longer than she had planned and had to walk home alone. But she wasn't afraid because it was a small town and she lived only a few blocks away. As she walked along under the tall elm trees, Diane asked "God" to keep her safe from harm and danger. When she reached the alley, which was a short cut to her house, she decided to take it. However, halfway down the alley she noticed a man standing at the end as though he were waiting for her. She became uneasy and began to pray, asking for God's protection. Instantly a comforting feeling of quietness and security wrapped around her, she felt as though someone was walking with her. When she reached the end of the alley, she walked right past the man and arrived home safety.

The following day, she read in the paper that a young girl had been raped in the same alley, just twenty minutes after she had been there. Feeling overwhelmed by this tragedy and the fact that it could have been her, she began to weep. Thanking the Lord for her safety and to help this young woman, she decided to go to the police station. She felt she could recognize the man, so she told them her story. The police asked her if she would be willing to look at a lineup to see if she could identify him. She agreed and immediately pointed out the man she had seen in the alley the night before.

When the man was told he had been identified, he immediately broke down and confessed. The officer thanked Diane for her bravery and asked if their was anything they could do for her, she asked if they would ask the man one question. Diane was curious as to why he had not attacked her. When the policeman asked him, he answered, "Because she wasn't alone. She had two tall men walking on either side of her."

Variations:
A version circulated in May 2001 omits mention of Diane's being Christian, opening instead with "Diane, a young university student. . . ."
Origins: The above-quoted piece first appeared in inboxes in February 2001. It sometimes concludes with the tagline "Moral of the story: NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF PRAYER!"

This story is best viewed as an inspirational tale meant to stress the importance of prayer in daily life, not as an account of something that actually happened. Nothing in it lends itself to verification; no last name or date or city is given. Indeed, we supposedly know what the rapist said in explanation of his unexpected confession ("Because she wasn't alone. She had two tall men walking on either side of her") but we aren't told his name, a detail that would make running down news articles about this man's conviction and sentence a snap.

As a bit of inspirational fiction, "Angels in the Alley" (its oft-used informal Internet title) not only misses the mark but lands a wicked backhand against the very folks a caring God would look to spare further harm. Because "Diane" prays she is passed over by the rapist, but another girl who traverses the same alley twenty minutes later is not so fortunate — she is victimized in the way Diane would have been. Prayer doesn't stop the rape; it merely diverts it from one potential victim to another. Diane's entreaties to the Lord thus have the effect of precipitating the sexual assault of another woman who otherwise would not have been raped. Hardly a ringing endorsement of God's mercy, that.

Beyond the "displacement of an evil result onto another" concept, (halting the evil as opposed to merely redirecting it would have been a better game plan for these alleyway angels), this story does a huge disservice to the many in real life who have been sexually assaulted. It implies they didn't pray hard enough, else their rapes would have been prevented too. Victims of such attacks carry enough emotional scars without prayer advocates adding one more: God must have intentionally turned his back on them, because he sends angels to protect the truly worthy.

The truly worthy, the truly unworthy, and all manner of folk in between can and do get raped, beaten, murdered, and have any number of horrible fates visited upon them. Belief in a world populated with invincible spirit guards that can be summoned to keep watch over us by the mere utterance of a heartfelt prayer might be ever so comforting, but the reality of life is far different. Good people, even prayerful people, can have bad things happen to them. To think otherwise is to draw comfort from the notion that all those who have been victimized mustn't have prayed hard enough, or that deep down they just weren't good people after all.

Barbara "blame the victimizer, not the victim" Mikkelson

Last updated: 9 July 2001

Fact-O-Rama

I just discovered this list of facts in my old email, and thought it was worth posting! It was sent to me by my very dear friend Krissy. I was able to find it because of the Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" Mail feature "Smart Folders." If you are a Mac user, and haven't upgraded to Tiger yet, do it! It's well worth it, even if the "dashboard" feature loses something after about a day and a half!
Anyway, here's the list of interesting facts:

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you
would have produced enough sound energy to heat one
cup of coffee.
(Hardly seems worth it.)


If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months,
enough gas is produced to create the energy of an
atomic bomb.
(Now that's more like it!)


The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps
out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
(O.M.G.!)


A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
(In my next life, I want to be a pig.)


A cockroach will live nine days without its head
before it starves to death.
(Creepy.)

(I'm still not over the pig.)


Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a
hour
(Don't try this at home,maybe at work)



The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head
is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by
ripping the male's head off.
("Honey, I'm home. What the....?!")


The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like
a human jumping the length of a football field.
(30 minutes..lucky pig! Can you imagine?)


The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)


Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
(I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality
over quantity)


Butterflies taste with their feet.
(Something I always wanted to know.)


The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
(Hmmmmmm......)


Right-handed people live, on average, nine years
longer than left-handed people.
(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)


Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
(okay, so that would be a good thing)


A cat's urine glows under a black light.
(I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)


An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
(I know some people like that.)


Starfish have no brains.
(I know some people like that too.)


Polar bears are left-handed.
(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer)


Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex
for pleasure.
(What about that pig??)

I love stuff like this, so if you come across any, please forward them to me so I can post it --- with proper credit for you, of course!

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Predicting the Future ...

Just some light fun I stole from some website or another ... Enjoy!

640K ought to be enough for anybody. - Bill Gates, 1981

This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. - Western Union internal memo, 1876.

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? - David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.

The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)

Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances. - Dr. Lee DeForest, Inventor of TV

The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosive. - Admiral William Leahy, U.S. Atomic Bomb Project

There is no likehood man can ever tap the power of the atom. - Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923

Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. - Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year. - The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957

But what ... is it good for? - Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.

I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper. - Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in Gone With The Wind.

A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make. - Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.

We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. - Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. - Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.

If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this. - Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M Post-It Notepads.

So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.' - Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.

More Pictures I Love (Part Two)

**All of the below were found on the internet. If any of these images are yours, please email me and I will remove them posthaste**

More Pictures I Love (Part One)

Again, True......

You are George Orwell Paranoid and Cynical. You are able to understand society and the human psyche quickly and easily. You are depressed a lot of the time, because you are clever enough to see what is really going on in the world. Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

A Clip From A Great Movie!

A "LOST" Mystery ... Solved

Firstly, congrats to LOST for winning best writing and best drama at the Emmys! They certainly deserved it! I am very disappointed that Everybody Loves Raymond beat Arrested Development for best comedy, though. That was a totally outrageous joke.

Anyway, I remember seeing the episode of LOST which this mystery refers to, and I remember hearing exactly what it says in the quote below (from the LOST article on Wikipedia), but I was later dissuaded from this belief by others. They were wrong!

When Boone tried to send a Mayday radio message in "Deus Ex Machina", he identified himself as a survivor of Oceanic Flight 815. The response Boone received was garbled, and led to a debate for some time as to whether it said "We're the survivors of Flight 815" or "There were no survivors of Flight 815." In a recent interview with TV Guide (May 29, 2005), Damon Lindelof solved this mystery, stating that the response was in fact "We’re the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815." However, Lindelof also reminded readers that this was also what Boone radioed over, saying "it's up to extrapolation as to whether or not his own words were being bounced back to him."

This certainly adds another layer!

Oh yes, and one more thing. I recently bought the LOST first season DVD. Interestingly, if you freeze-frame just before the polar bear leaps at Sawyer, a strange figure appears, somewhat like a Chinese or Japanese character, but not exactly. I doubt it's a mistake!!! But what is it?

These pictures made me sick to my stomach!

If you know me, you know I am TERRIFIED of sharks, ever since I saw Jaws in 1975. The first two of these pictures were sent by my very dear friend Krissy Kelleher-Penese, and I almost vomited! The third I found somewhere on the web! Beware! [They are, of course, photshopped!]

Finally! A personality quiz result I really get!

Marcus Aurelius


Which Roman Emperor Would You Be?
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Get sorted! I did!

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I'm
a Gryffindor!

I Only Disagree With One of These ("Social")

Your Political Profile

Overall: 35% Conservative, 65% Liberal

Social Issues: 75% Conservative, 25% Liberal

Personal Responsibility: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal

Fiscal Issues: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal

Ethics: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal

Defense and Crime: 75% Conservative, 25% Liberal

How Liberal / Conservative Are You?

A Joke For All You Computer Nerds ...

What do you get when you combine Wndows CE, Window ME, and Windows NT?

Windows CEMENT!

Hahahah. I can't remember where I saw that - I think it was an anti-Microsoft website. I thought it was funny!