Thought Shower

...Quick Capsule Review. - Better than the first one. - Still completely over-the-top ridiculous. - Still like National Treasure more.

Ever think telling the time is just a little bit too easy? Why not throw in some maths to make it a mini test every time you check the clock? Here's a small Java program I wrote that displays the time using binary digits. It'll be second (get it?)  nature in no time! import java.util.*; /**  *  * @author D. Duncombe  */ public class Main {               /** Creates a new instance of Main */   public Main() {   }       /**   * @param args the command line arguments   */   public static void main(String[] args) {       System.out.println("*************************");   System.out.println("*** Binary Clock V1.0 ***");   System.out.println("***    D. Duncombe    ***");   System.out.println("*************************");       while (1 == 1)   {       Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();   int secondValue1 = cal.get(cal.SECOND);   int secondValue2 = secondValue1;      ...

I was thinking today about how government sponsored advertising on t.v. is able to get away with so much more than the regular adverts from normal companies. For example take the drink driving adverts you see at Christmas that are full of violence, or the anti-drug adverts with disturbing imagery. 'So', I thought, 'how could a company use similarly over the top techniques to sell their product?' This is what I came up with: We open on a pub car park. Twilight. A car pulls in and parks. A young man, maybe late teens or early twenties steps out. We follow the man as he walks into the pub, pausing briefly to hold up his car key and click the remote lock button. We see the car's lights flash once. Cut to; the young man is sitting at a table in the pub twiddling with his phone, a pint of beer sits half empty on the table in front of him. Suddenly three more men appear and his face lights up when he notices their arrival. Cut to; montage of the four friends laughing, roug...