'Shells'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
A scientific study of earworms:
Some 98 to 99 percent of the population has, at some point, been "infected" with a song they just can't seem to shake off. This common phenomenon has rarely been researched, until Andréane McNally-Gagnon, a PhD student at the University of Montreal Department of Psychology, decided to examine the issue in an ongoing investigation.
The Oatmeal goes all billytea: [link]
I was just thanked by a garbage can.
I went to this pizza place in downtown Evanston for lunch. When I threw away my garbage, the garbage can said, "Thank you for helping us keep the environment clean," in a perky female voice.
They should have copied HHGttG and had it say, "Thank you for making a simple garbage can very happy!"
I had "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy" stuck in my head for, seriously, over 2 years. It rears its ugly head every once in awhile now (like right this minute), but it seemed to stop when I moved offices. My student worker used to joke about it, because I was always singing it.
I feel like I have more earworms than the normal person. I almost always have a song stuck in my head, with varying levels of time and annoyance. It is just a layer that is there. Right now it is "Poker Face", because now I get that in my head every time I work with fonts, because of Neutra Face. I am so glad I do not work with Dreamweaver anymore.
The only thing to wipe out "Yankee Doodle Dandy" from your mind is with something from 1776. May I recommend "Sit Down, John!"?
Someone ought to oooopen up a window
No no no!
Too many flies
Too many flies
But it's hot as hell
In Philadel-
Phia!
Mr. Adams you are driving me to homicide!
Homicide! Homicide!
We may see murder yet!
I almost always have a song stuck in my head, with varying levels of time and annoyance. It is just a layer that is there.
Me too.
Lately it's been the Treme theme song. Good for bike riding to, not so good for sleeping to.
The Oatmeal goes all billytea
Wow, that is one sad existence.
OK, this is just stupid:
First human 'infected with computer virus'
A British scientist says he is the first man in the world to become infected with a computer virus.
Dr Mark Gasson from the University of Reading contaminated a computer chip which was then inserted into his hand.
The device, which enables him to pass through security doors and activate his mobile phone, is a sophisticated version of ID chips used to tag pets.
In trials, Dr Gasson showed that the chip was able to pass on the computer virus to external control systems.
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Dr Gasson admits that the test is a proof of principle but he thinks it has important implications for a future where medical devices such as pacemakers and cochlear implants become more sophisticated, and risk being contaminated by other human implants.