yes, it does look like teh building from Blade Runner.
That one is called the "Bradbury Building" (bit of a sci-fi author cross-over there!)

here's the interior of that building
http://www.brmovie.com/Images/Locations/BR_loc_Bradbury_1805.JPG

I see you have Paul McGann as one of the doctors, but not Peter Cushing. Surely, if you are counting filmy doctors, then the Cushing films count?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Who_%28Dalek_films%29

Also, the second film co-stars the excellent Bernard Cribbins as the police constable who tries to make use of the police call box, which is of course the TARDIS.

Bernard Cribbins now plays Wilfred Mott in the recent series. It's a shame they didn't get him to reprise his earlier role. That would have been a great moment of storytelling continuity, to bridge a 40 year gap!
It would mirror the plot device used in the new series - but much more effectively.
Ah well!

In a very similar vein, Private Eye magazine has a long running section titled "Dumb Britain", filled with dimwitted utterings from easy quiz shows.

You can see a good selection of the submissions here
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dumb_Britain

I read that PKD story when I was pretty young and it affected my perception of reality.
Dick's story was a weird and unsettling tale of suburban late 50's banality turned inside out.

Dick was interested in challenging perceptions while still remaining comic and satirical.
The movie meanwhile - is a love story, about "soul mates", where our protagonist is no longer a downtrodden kafka-esque figure, but a ... um, hunky powerful Matt Damon-esque figure.

Why did they even bother buying the rights?

I heard a good tip from my Mum.
A friends dog broke through some ice and became lost underneath in the murky water, far from the bank.
The friend smashed a hole near the bank and dangled the lead in, so it glinted in the light. The dog saw and recognized it's lead and swam toward it and so could be dragged out of the hole.

Ingenious and relatively safe
I hope this simple idea helps save another pooch one day.

I think it's worth trying to deflect this asteroid, whatever the odds are.
One day we might find an asteroid with greater odds of hitting us than this one, and on that day we might be glad that we took a bit of a practice swing beforehand, just to get our technique right.

For those curious what Tiger tastes like, its a little bit like Panda.

Lovely with a spicy Dodo sauce

this post is, of course, very related to that other post about the sketchysantas blog
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/09/sketchy-santas/

signed: the link elf

On the subject of the beard vid. Isn't it odd that fake footage is still so obvious from the start, even when the vhs technology andclothes were all convincing enough.
I thing it was the behavior of "natural beard" man which tipped me off, something subtley wrong about his expressions/movements.
I can't explain it more than that.
Anyone else have an explanation?

As I have a persistent cough I tried making a lung flute myself. Unfortunately I made a mistake with the resonant frequencies and seem to have invented an ass-flute instead.

* Badum-tish *
um, yeah

I think this article is incorrect. Surely trolls are not just "types of annoying internet commenters".

The example commenters given in this article are unkowingly annoying , whereas real trolls are knowingly trying to annoy or create a scenario for the lulz, ie - they sock-puppet a hot button opinion to get peoples attention and then actively try to heat it (and responents) up.

I would imagine the the linking of black hats was culturally learned and developed.
Black is the colour of mourning in the west, so a villain dressed in black summons thoughts of death. In the same way Goths like to. It's "moody"

Of course, elsewhere in the world black means no such thing. Wikipedia tells me that : in the Japanese culture, Black is associated with honor(rather than death)

My solution is to propose a bet

if the world does not end in 2012 you must pay me £1000
if the world does end, then I will pay you £5000

seems fair eh?

these will go great with my ham socks

ah, crack cocaine, is there anything you can't do?