Monday 12 May 2003

Sci-Fi Club Award Winners Announced Dublin's Sci-Fi Club awarded its top acolades on Tuesday night in a glitzy star-studded ceremony. [LostCarPark] Suggested categories for next year are: Most contrived explanation for a character departing a series because the actor wanted more money. Most contived explanation for a character returning to a series because the actor couldn't find work elsewhere Best performance by an actor and producer explaining that the actor was replaced for perfectly valid artistic reasons while keeping a straight face. 11:55:54 PM    comment []  Google It!

Douglas Adams remembered.... May 12, 2001 Tom Murphy over at PR Opinions remembers Douglas Adams. Is it really two years since he passed on. "If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now." "Arthur hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realised there was a contradiction there and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife." [PR Opinions] And to the above, I shall simply add my favourite quote, which also features in my professional e-mail sig - I'm a journalist if you didn't already know: "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by." 11:48:04 PM    comment []  Google It!

RIAA apologizes for threatening letter There's a first time for everything. The department of Astronomy at Penn State University has a professor called Usher. The members of the faculty recorded an acapella version of a song written by another faculty member and stored it as an MP3 on the department's server. So the RIAA sent them a cease and desist letter for hosting illegal songs by a recording artist called Usher. Fortunately the University stood its ground and that RIAA has been forced to apologise. [CNET News.com] 11:32:38 PM    comment []  Google It!

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