Monthly Archives: November 2010

Leslie Nielsen, who went from drama to inspired bumbling as a hapless doctor in Airplane! and accident-prone detective Frank Drebin in the Naked Gun comedies, has died aged 84.

His agent John Kelly said Nielsen died on Sunday at a hospital near his home in Fort. Lauderdale, Florida, where he was being treated for pneumonia.

Canadian-born Nielsen came to Hollywood in the mid-1950s after performing in 150 live television dramas in New York.

Some Nielsen highlights in this clip

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcKJdmXbBBc

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If you drop one of these magic tablets into a glass of water it will instantly begin to dissolve, creating a cascade of bubbles that will infuse the water with a delicious bacon flavor. But don’t limit yourself to water. These Effervescent Drink Tablets work just as well in milk, juice or soda.

And you know you can trust these guys.

Archie McPhee

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0_nuvPKIi8&feature=player_embedded#!

At the Solar Furnace Research Facility in Southern France, Jem Stansfield from BBC’s Bang Goes The Theory (the one with Liz Bonnin in it) tests out a super-efficient mirror, capable of focussing sunlight to a 3,500°C point heat source: hot enough to melt rock.

BoingBoing