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While waiting for the new - indefinetely postponed - season of 24, here is some related audio visual entertainment.

If 24 started in the mid 1990s, this is what it would have looked like (I love “Jack” “Bauer” running to the payphone each time he gets paged). Enjoy:

And here’s another spoof, this time “Jack” “Bauer” and “Tony” “Almeida” interrupting a car chase to order some food at Wacky Burgers.

What Jack does on his day off:

And some screen tests from “Keifer” “Sutherland”:

A couple of guys went through the trouble and made a fun spoof, telling of what happens during the commercial break:

Here’s the text I found on a package of Band Aid:

It adopts the Adhesive Ventilation Plastes so asto make the wonderful flexibility in any joints.

If you can translate this, please let us know of the meaning

The Brand is called “Bang Tian”.

Part 1 is here.

1. Large, loft-style apartments in New York City are well within the price range of most people-whether they are employed or not.
2. At least one of a pair of identical twins is born evil.
3. Should you decide to defuse a bomb, don’t worry which wire to cut. You will always choose the right one.
4. Most laptop computers are powerful enough to override the communications system of any invading alien society.
5. It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts: your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessors.
6. When you turn out the light to go to bed, everything in your bedroom will still be clearly visible, just slightly bluish.
7. If you are blonde and pretty, it is possible to become a world expert on nuclear fission at the age of 22.
8. Honest and hard working policemen are traditionally gunned down three days before their retirement.
9. Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their arch enemies using complicated machinery involving fuses, pulley systems, deadly gasses, lasers, and man-eating sharks, which will allow their captives at least 20 minutes to escape.
10. All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets that reach the armpit level on a woman but only to waist level on the man lying beside her.
11. All grocery shopping bags contain at least one stick of French bread.
12. It’s easy for anyone to land a plane providing there is someone in the control tower to talk you down.
13. Once applied, lipstick will never rub off-even while scuba diving.
14. You’re very likely to survive any battle in any war unless you make the mistake of showing someone a picture of your sweetheart back home.
15. When swimming, hair is always perfectly groomed.
16. When a villian catches the Hero, the villian will first explain how the Hero will be killed. Then the villan will continue explaining his evil master plan. He will then leave - presumably to let the Hero die. Magically, the Hero escapes.
17. Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German or Russian officer, it will not be necessary to speak the language. A German or Russian accent will do.
18. The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris.
19. A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating, but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.
20. If a large pane of glass is visible, someone will be thrown through it before long.
21. If staying in a haunted house, women should investigate any strange noises in their most revealing underwear.
22. Word processors never display a cursor on screen but will always say: Enter Password Now.
23. Even when driving down a perfectly straight road, it is necessary to turn the steering wheel vigorously from left to right every few moments.
24. All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when they’re going to go off.
25. Bombs will not be defuse until the last second.
26. A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.
27. If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you meet will know all the steps.
28. Police departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned a partner who is their total opposite.
29. When they are alone, all foreign military officers prefer to speak to each other in English
30. It is incredible simple to enlarge a blurry picture to reveal new details.
31. If you are an aging actor, it is best to surround yourself with very young love interests. No one will notice you age any longer.
32. No matter how big an army, and how many machine guns the soldiers have - a hero will always succeed in killing them all.
33. A hero can effortlessly kill 150 nasty guys. But the moment the Big Baddie arrives, the following fight will lasts minutes.

I have previously written about Microsofts’s attempt at making a mobile phone (here and here), but now the first two spec ads have been leaked:

and

When I was a kid, I loved making flipbooks. They could have between 2 and 100 pictures. Flipbook.info is a great site that has many videos of antique flipbooks.

I was delighted to find out that there is software to print out your films, and make a thumb-able movie. For the Mac there is the free DYI flipbooks, and if you are on Windows, you can start your search here.

A US sandwich chain is taking the concept further and made a human flipbook:And a fun how-did-they-make-it film:

“Everyone” seems to be talking about the iPhone. “Everyone” seems to want one. Truth is, most people don’t really care. And the truth is also, of all the people who really do want one, most simply can not get one:There is still no word as to when (or even if) the iPhone will come to Norway and Scandinavia.

And as to all the buzz around the $200 rebate, here is a link to Steve Jobs’ First Letter of Apology.