Weird signs
The US Presidential Election as a game of Magic: The Gathering.
British Medical Journal article on the efficacy of parachutes in preventing death from gravitational challenge.
Interiew with Mike Leigh about the Canadian debut of “Happy Go Lucky”, previously discussed on this blog here – if you saw this film, give it a read, it gives Leigh’s perspective on what he has created.
And finally, yet more proof that old-skool comics were seriously weird: a complete Herbie story. Prepare to say “what the what?”
[most of these linky courtesy Making Light and Journalista]
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That BMJ article on the parachute is fantastic, and smacks of someone getting pissed off with people telling them there should be randomised testing of stuff they already knows works. I particularly like the “Pride and Prejudice” reference – “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a medical intervention justified by observational data must be in want of verification through a randomised controlled trial.”
Yeah, I love that article too, for exactly the reasons you state 🙂
Notwithstanding my pedantic over-enthusiasm for good empirical data and randomised controlled experiments, I loved that article too, and so did the several other similarly pedantic scientist types I sent it to. Once again your linky is the highpoint of my day… is this a comment on the quality of your linky or my quality of life)
Is it possible they were just laughing at themselves?
A colleague suggested parachutes were an analogy for condoms, but I think that was just a ref to the “Forgot my parachute” AIDS prevention ads of our childhood.