2,460m in length, the crossing is expected to last, by car, around one minute.

• The sound is nowhere near as good as M*A*S*H and yet it is roughly three years younger than M*A*S*H . I'm talking about the detail here, like Elliot Gould's mutterings. Sometimes they sounded like they were voiceovers and sometimes it sounded like he was muttering. No such problems with the operating theatre scenes in M*A*S*H
• The Williams/Mercer song used throughout in different forms gets a bit tired.
• As expected in an Altman piece, the acting was all very good, of particular note, Mark Rydell as a Jewish hood looking just like Phil Spector, and the current Governor of California as one of his thugs.
• Also, Henry Gibson playing a sort of slightly more realistic Doctor Evil.
• Can anyone tell me what sort of car the Terry Lennox character was driving around LA during the start of the pitcher?
• The three days in jail didn't work as a single scene-to-scene cut (but I'm not suggesting some sort of animated calendar or clock trick would have worked, maybe fade to black, stay there 1 second and fade up to the cell just before his release).
• The apartment that Marlowe lived in was fantastic. It would have been fantastic even if it didn't have naked women dancing on a nearby balcony in almost every scene (what were they all about?).

US President George W Bush has sought to regain support for his Iraq policies, outlining in a speech broad plans for the country's return to self-rule, including the destruction of the notorious Abu Ghraib prison, which he mispronounced three times.

Reform cannot come soon enough.

"But universally, it seems to be a turn-on. So many people are drawn to us." Except for one group of hold-outs: "We haven't sold any panties to Republicans," Tasha admitted. "I guess we haven't converted anyone yet."

is a computerized cart machine for the Macintosh. It is very similar to the so-called cart machines used at radio stations in the past. Each recording - a jingle, advertisement, etc, was on a cartidge, which could be quickly selected and played.

the party invoking the Nazis as a debating tactic in any argument where there is not some direct relevance automatically loses the argument

We govern for all Victorians -- and that includes witches, magicians and sorcerers

will outstrip by more than 250 meters the current contender, Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur

TL: Everyone laughed in David Williamson's play, The Club, when Geoff Hayward, the Tassie recruit, saw a strange apparition coming at him one day at Glenferrie. It's much more serious now.
BC: It is, and that's the point, isn't it, the way we might react to that particular character and what that character was doing might be very different today. I don't know. I haven't gone to the play for 20 years or longer. It would be interesting to see the reaction to Geoff Hayward. I think people would perceive him a little differently from how they did in the '70s.
TL: Were you Geoff Hayward?
BC: The character might have been loosely based on certain things that I did.

Smoking is bad and smoking around non-smokers without their permission is rude. But exaggerating the dangers that smokers pose to non-smokers is not wise. For one thing, it undermines the credibility of the medical profession. For another, it promotes an attitude of intolerance that should give us pause in a free society. The way things are going, it will be only a matter of time before a smoker is charged with manslaughter for his co-worker's heart attack.

There are certain unwritten rules for structuring a tech company and filing for an initial public offering and Google just broke them all.

• Some important pieces of cellulose ended up on the cutting room floor: why the hell did they abandon the chase of the Acheron into the West and return to the Galapgos?
• The violin and cello strumming simply did not work against the audio
• When Blakeney was left incharge of the ship he ordered the cannon to hit the hull (why didn't the cannonball roll out of the cannon as they pointed it down?) and the next moment they were boarding the froggy boat. Maybe my ignorance stepped in here.
• Some of the battle stuff leaves you wondering, until a surprise victory, who is winning. This is not uncommon in battle scenes generally but it could probably have been handled better. Of course it doesn't help that I was looking at a letter-boxed image at 2.35:1 which should have been clipped at the end into a true 16:9 so that we get a bit more information on the screen at the sacrifice of a few far edge bits of image... but that's another fight.

1. Marshmallows
2. A Microwave that has no mechanical motion-no turntable or rotating mirror
3. A ruler