A silly little YouTube movie

This clip says something about the nature of humour. People seem to find this type of slapstick incredibly funny or are not moved at all. I'm one of the former...
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Top Gear review of the P50 - a 60's design for the car of the future?

Absolutely classic Top Gear humour!

Jeremy Clarkson reviews the tiny P50 - a 40 year old car that makes a Prius look like a petrol guzzling tank.
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[via Gadget Lab]

The Ford Nucleon - a transport solution for peak oil and carbon emissions?

The Ford Nucleon was a nuclear powered concept car developed by the Ford Motor Company in 1958. The rear mounted reactor provided a 8000 km range and could be exchanged at charging stations, which were anticipated to replace petrol stations. The forward position of the cabin provided a degree of protection to the occupants from the reactor.

Thankfully, no operational models were built, but it's a wonder Howard hasn't picked this one up - it's American, nuclear powered and dates from the Menzies era!

[Wikipedia via EcoGeek]

Improvement to Workplace Relations advertisement

Here's an amusing improvement to the Workplace Relations media saturation campaign spotted on a Flinders St tramstop...

Despite the saturation campaign (27 TV, radio and press advertisements to date), I notice a recent Roy Morgan survey commissioned by GetUp! indicates the results are less than impressive:

• 45% feel less positive towards the Government's laws as a result of the multi-million dollar campaign.
• 23 per cent say it made them feel better about the laws.
• 24 per cent say the ads made no difference
  
• 8 per cent not sure.

Prepare for an onslaught when the election is announced!

Burnout Self-Test Tool

For those of you still with your nose to the grindstone...
Here's a Burnout Self-Test tool to help you look at the way you feel about your job and work experiences and identify burnout risk.
Retrospectively I scored 66!

Generic casserole recipe

Appealing to a non-cook like me now having to think about cooking, but I'm sure this will cause much mirth to others - hence 'humour' tag. The idea/hope is that you just need to memorize the one generic recipe and reuse it according to ingredients on hand, etc.

1 cup main ingredient
1 cup second ingredient
1-2 cups starchy ingredient
1 1/2 cups binder
1/4 cup “goodie”
seasoning
topping

Main ingredient: tuna, cubed chicken, turkey, ham, seafood, etc.
Second ingredient: thinly sliced celery, mushrooms, peas, chopped hard-boiled eggs, etc.
Starchy ingredient: thinly sliced potatoes, cooked noodles, cooked rice, etc.
Binder: cream sauce, sour cream, can of soup, etc.
“Goodie”: pimiento, olives, almonds, water chestnuts, etc.
Topping: cheese, bread crumbs, etc.

An example given is chicken + mushrooms + rice + cream of chicken soup + cheese combo (no goodie).

This post is calling out for comments & advice!

[from The Simple Dollar review of The Complete Tightwad Gazette (p625)]

Medieval Help Desk (movie)

New technologies have always presented challenges to users. Here's a YouTube sketch of medieval help desk support for one of those new fangled 'books'.

Billy Connolly on Retirement...

You gotta love him...

What do retired people do all day?

Working people frequently ask retired people what they do to make their days interesting. Well for example, the other day I went into town and went into a shop. I was only in there for about 5 minutes, when I came out there was a cop writing out a parking ticket. I went up to him and said, "Come on man, how about giving a senior citizen a f****** break?" He ignored me and continued writing the ticket. I called him a Nazi turd. He glared at me and started writing another ticket for having worn tires. So I called him a shithead. He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first. Then he started writing a third ticket. This went on for about 20 minutes. The more I abused him, the more tickets he wrote. Personally, I didn't care. I came into town by bus. I try to have a little fun each day now that I'm retired....... It's important at my age......

[thanks to Rose for this!]

1-click Award silly animation

With electronic devices getting smaller and smaller, here's an idea for a different scale of user interface
1-click Award (takes a few seconds to load)
[source David C.]