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Here are the lyrics, as best as I can work them out, for the final song in Act I of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog:

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P: Thank you Hammer Man, I don’t think I can
P: Explain how important it was that you stopped the van
D: CRUNCH
P: I would be splattered, I’d be crushed under debris
D: CRUNCH
P: Thank you sir for saving me

H: Don’t worry about it, a man’s gotta do what a

H: Man’s gotta do
P: You came from above

D: Are you kidding?
H: (It) seems destiny

H: Holds for me saving you
D: What heist were you watching?
P: I wonder what you’re captain of

D: Stop looking at her like that
H: When you’re the best

H: You can’t rest, what’s the use?
D: Did you notice that he threw you in the garbage?
P: My heart is beating like a drum

H: There’s ass needs kicking, some ticking bomb to defuse
D: I stopped the van

D: The remote control was in my hand
P: (I) must be in shock

H: So the doom that’s looming
P: Assuming I’m not

H: Is you loving me to death
P: Loving you to death

D: Whatever…

H: So please give me a sec to catch my breath
P: So please give me a sec to catch my breath

D: Balls

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With thanks to Its_Only_Cody, ftloosenfanzfree and kindakrazy on the IMDb message board.

PS – Go watch this thing, it is pretty good.

PPS – A better source of lyrics for future acts will probably be this thread at whedonesque.org.

Today, 12th March 2008, there are approximately 6,793,052,354 people alive right now.

According to ‘How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?’ by Carl Haub, in mid-2002, there were 6,215,000,000 people alive and the total number of people ever born was 106,456,367,669.

Assuming the total number of people alive doubles every 50 years, as Isaac Asimov supposed in 1991, then in 800 years time there will be as many people alive as there had ever existed up to mid-2002.

Which is to say, if the human population continues growing at the current rate, by the year 2800 there will be over 100 billion people alive.

I tried to work out the method to determine:

1 – How long it would be until the number of people living was exactly half that of those who had ever been born (which is to say, the same number as all those who had died up to that point).

And:

2 – How long it would take for there to be more people alive than had ever lived.

But my brain does not know how, at least not right now.

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I first read Asimov’s ‘The Power of Progression’ years ago, but it was Ellis’ musings and the bizzare “answers” to this question on Yahoo! that prompted me to write this.

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The short answer; no, there are not more people alive today than have ever died. We make up about 5.8% of all those ever born.

Some photographs, mostly for the reflections.

I found out about the cheese roll a little whle ago, and have now seen it with my own eyes. See what I saw:

( Cheese Roll 2007, Race #1 (YouTube, 34 seconds) )

( Cheese Roll 2007, Race #2 (YouTube, 39 seconds) )

( Cheese Roll 2007, Race #3 (YouTube, 57 seconds) )

( Cheese Roll 2007, Race #4 (YouTube, 80 seconds) )

Also, for those of you who want to download files of far superior quality:

( Cheese Roll 2007, Race #1 (10.19MB QuickTime Movie) )

( Cheese Roll 2007, Race #2 (13.34MB QuickTime Movie) )

( Cheese Roll 2007, Race #3 (18.66MB QuickTime Movie) )

( Cheese Roll 2007, Race #4 (42.22MB QuickTime Movie) )

We didn’t stay for the last race, and left just after the third so as to avoid the hideous crush of the crowd, but you get an idea of the crazy tumbliness. However, try as I might, I could not get the steepness of the hill to come across on film, except maybe in the last clip.

I read an article by Anil Dash regarding “lolcats” last week, found it interesting, was even quite amused by this Star Trek version…

But when a newspaper, regardless of whatever reputation it may or may not have, captions its photographs in such a manner…

“Brooke Shields: I HAS A ALPHABET?”

Well, that just hurts my head a little bit. If the article itself was about the aforementioned lolcats? At least that would make a certain sense, an example of that being discussed. As it is, there is just head pain.

OMG

WTF

BBQ

This man should be the next president of the USA.

I first heard of him last year, when he spoke in defense of Habeas Corpus:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BIylNUkmvo

This man will never be president of the USA.

Bob-damnit.

It is both funny and pretty:

http://projectkooky.com/dylan/art/illo/content/html/battlestar.html

Haw, and though I have yet to see the third season, more pictures exist:

http://community.livejournal.com/pantsketch/99256.html