Some cool links. Firstly, is the Wikipeda entry for Top Gear. It provides a lot more interesting trivia on this great show! They also have a page on Brainiac. The stuff they have there must be seen to be believed! And I found out about another program called Brainiac History Abuse which highlights modern-day activities you can do (with varying degrees of difficulty) while wearing a suit of armour, Historical medicinal remedies,
historical battles illustrated using fruit and vegetables , “fixing” an everyday problem with unnecessary force, such as opening a vending machine or a locked car using a battering ram and the like.

The show always ends with an item in which a caravan gets blown up. In diference to the theme, they use a “historical” explosive for an everyday task (e.g. a WW2 depth charge to unblock a toilet).

A friend pointed me to an exploit to compromise a system using sendmail. This one takes about two hours commonly per attempt… But you can have many many paralell operations going at once.

And MediaWatch is fun. There are two papers in Northern NSW… One has been copying the Gig Guide from the other one for ages… Down to the point where the original started playing games… ‘Tree Stump, Broken Head: Flagrant Plagiarists’ was one they came up with… And then also ‘Monica Attard Orchestra’ playing at ‘Auntie’s Bar’ as a reference to MediaWatch Itself.