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Quick Heads Up: Just a Minute, Season 57
Picture unrelated. But it was this or Nicholas Parsons.
Season 57 of Just a Minute has just begun and episodes are available weekly on the BBC Radio 4 website.
For those unfamiliar with Just a Minute, it’s a panel show where guests must speak for 60 seconds without “repetition, hesitation, or deviation.” I’ve been a fan of the show since listening to my first episode where the lovely chairman Nicholas Parsons warmly welcomed listeners, including those around the world listening online. I listened to more than 40 hours of Just a Minute while grinding in World of Warcraft. Although I eventually left Warcraft behind, Just a Minute was a addiction I couldn’t kick.
[via: Just-a-Minute.info, the most complete fansite I've seen for anything, anywhere. The amount of work it must take to compile all this information and keep it up to date is staggering. Dean, you are a god among men.]
Quick Heads Up: Free Amazon Prime for Students
With a .edu email address you can get one year free of Amazon Prime. That means free two-day shipping on books and an unthinkable variety of other goods. It seems like you can even get a year refund if you already subscribe to Prime. Not sure if this is a permanent program or limited offer.
I’m off to order a case of instant miso soup…
[Thanks Derek!]
Quick Heads Up: The Museum of Curiosity
I’m a little behind the times, but you still have a few more days to catch the last episode of the current season of The Museum of Curiosity on the BBC Radio 4 website. This final episode includes Neil Gaiman.
The EFF Wonders if You Can Be Identified by Your Browser, Help Out
From EFF.org:
When you visit a website, you are allowing that site to access a lot of information about your computer’s configuration. Combined, this information can create a kind of fingerprint — a signature that could be used to identify you and your computer. But how effective would this kind of online tracking be?
EFF is running an experiment to find out. Our new website Panopticlick will anonymously log the configuration and version information from your operating system, your browser, and your plug-ins, and compare it to our database of five million other configurations. Then, it will give you a uniqueness score — letting you see how easily identifiable you might be as you surf the web.
Try it out. My browser registers as pretty unique right now, but there clearly needs to be a lot more participants to get an accurate picture. Takes less than 30 seconds and you get to see all sorts of information you probably didn’t know other people could see.
Quick Heads Up: Sailor Moon Sacrifice Is Back In Production
Also check out the trailers for Sailor Moon Analemma and The Last Soldier
Excited by the recent trend in Sailor Moon fan series. They’re all pretty visually and technically appealing, hope the stories are great as well.
[via: moonkitty.net / Alexisofroses]
Quick Heads Up: On the Outside It Looked Like an Old Fashioned Police Box
You’ve got seven days left to listen to Mark Gatiss talk about Target Doctor Who novelizations.
-> BBC Radio 4 Programmes – “On the Outside It Looked Like an Old Fashioned Police Box”
Quick Heads Up: Tomorrow (May 25th) Is Towel Day
Carry your towel with you in celebration of Douglas Adams and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy!
-> Towel Day