Hitler annoyed at Torchwood Series 2 Finale

This is fantastic. It will only make sense if you are up to date on your Torchwood. Warning: Torchwood Series 2 spoilers and strong language:


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(H. T.: Patrick Raiford)

(Update: 28 May 2009: link above refreshed).

Queen Elizabeth II will leave behind a legacy of waving

We missed out on the Queen's Speech this year since we were spending the day at Viola's folks in Peterborough, and they are not at all royalist. (Neither am I, and yet watching the Queen's Speech has become a family tradition). If I had have seen it, perhaps it would have included some waving. Thanks to Jeff Peterson for passing on this entertaining piece from the Onion News Network:


Queen Elizabeth II Will Leave Behind Long Legacy Of Waving

Rory Bremner does the Archbishop

The new series of Bremner, Bird and Fortune is better than ever. This Sunday Bremner did several short sketches impersonating the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, and it's a remarkably good impression. Here he is comparing himself to Doctor Who and the Anglican Church to the TARDIS:

Father of a teenager

I passed an important milestone recently and became the father of a teenager. We couldn't resist going back to Harry Enfield's Kevin for a good laugh, and reassuring ourselves that things could never be this bad:

Bush's new threat

Excellent piece of footage on Youtube from myeverything.com:

Those Star Trek Red Shirt Casualties

One of Eddie Izzard's many hilarious routines focused on the poor "Stevens" in a red shirt, going down to the planet with Kirk, McCoy and Spock. It was, of course, inevitable that the said Stevens would be the one not to return to the Enterprise. Here he is on YouTube, doing his stuff about Star Trek (Stevens in the red jumper at about 4'50"):



Well, one sometimes wonders if the memory distorts these things. Were there really more red shirt casualties on Star Trek than there were mustard shirt and blue shirt casualties? On Locusts and Honey, Red Shirt Casualty Statistics, John links to a great analysis of this question:

Analytics According to Captain Kirk
By Matt Bailey

. . . We need to segment the overall mortality (conversion) rate in order to gain the specific information that we need:

* Yellow-shirt crewperson deaths: 6 (10%)
* Blue-Shirt crewperson deaths: 5 (8 %)
* Engineering smock crewperson deaths: 4
* Red-Shirt crewperson deaths: 43 (73%)

So, the basic segmentation of factors allows us to confirm that red-shirted crewmembers died more than any other crewmembers on the original Star Trek series.

However, that's only just simple stats reporting - ready for some analysis?

There's lots of it -- and some great tips for avoiding death if you ever find yourself stuck in an episode of Star Trek wearing a red shirt.