Bauer's Back!

Jack returns!
Fox Network brings us 12 episodes called 24: Live Another Day.
Wait: TWELVE??? The producers'd planned to do a feature film but, as they got into it, they realised that 24 - compressed into two hours - is not 24. So, unlike what happened in the regular series — where each episode represented an hour in Bauer's action-packed life — the new version will jump around during the day. And the star power will be better than ever: a lot of Hollywood Who's Who wanted to participate... so expect fireworks!
But just where will the mayhem take place? Will it be in Germany, where the producers could link Live Another Day to some of the dark areas of Seasons 1-2 (like hit-woman Mandy, arms dealer Max, intermediary Trepkos, the people pulling the strings of the attempts on Prez David Palmer's life)?
No, it'll be set entirely in London! While little is known, the plot takes place four years after Day 8 (Season Eight), with Jack a fugitive, hunted by the CIA. A brief teaser shows ever-supportive Chloe (Mary Lynn Rajskub) by his side. (SPOILER ALERT: UK actor/comedian Stephen Fry plays the British Prime Minister. I can also confirm that ex-Sec.of State Heller and his daughter Audrey Raines will also appear. Yes, Audrey's out of her coma...and married to the White house Chief of Staff. Oh, but did I mention that Heller is now Prez of the US of A??!!).
24: Live Another Day screens in US and UK this May.

Once Lost, Now Found...Again

Yesterday (Sun.02 March 2014) around 10am., Sea Shepherd re-located the Japanese factory vessel Nisshin Maru inside the Ross Sea Dependency...
with a dead, protected minke whale onboard. Blood was running from the side of the ship, slabs of whale meat lay on the deck, along with the severed head of another recently killed whale.

Blood on the dance floor...

NM was located by Steve Irwin's helicopter, which has found the whaling fleet on four occasions this season. Steve Irwin and Bob Barker are now closing in on the factory vessel.
Captain of BB, Peter Hammarstedt: "Each time we have located NM, SS has been attacked by the whalers in night ambushes. With darkness just a few hours away, we are well aware that we are soon likely to have harpoon ships crossing our bows towing steel cables, and the strong possibility that our ships could become disabled in the treacherous and frigid Antarctic waters. After sustaining two gruelling assaults, we believe a third attack by the whaling fleet is imminent."
This is the second time this whaling season that SS has caught the Japanese in the act of poaching whales within the Sthrn Ocean Whale Sanctuary, and it's the second time in six days that SS has located the whaling fleet. The whalers have remained outside their preferred self-allocated hunting grounds of the Ross Sea due to SS's relentless patrolling.

True Love Bursts Forth...?

Japanese designers have created a bra that unclasps itself when a woman's heartbeat rises!
The logic is that, when the heart beats faster, it surely means she's 'in love' and ready for sex.
The bra has an electronic front clasp that automatically unhooks only when it detects that its wearer is in 'true love'. How does it do this (when even humans have difficulty figuring it out at times)? Well, an in-built sensor detects a rise in her heart beat and sends it to a Bluetooth app for analysis, which calculates the True Love Rate (TLR) based on changes in the heart rate over time.
When the TLR exceeds a certain value, the bra unhooks automatically and the woman is ready to get physical with her true love. If your heartbeat doesn't rise, it doesn't unlock. Riiiiiight... but a few points the designers've overlooked:
1. What if the woman doesn't want to unleash her breasts on the man who makes her heart rise? Perhaps she'd like to use her brain to decide whether she wants to undress, instead of relying on an app to do it for her.
2. What if the TLR gets it wrong? The poor woman's heart may be racing with nerves during a job interview...pop goes the weasel! Or while running for the bus...or giving a work presentation...or finding a colleague has brought in a surprise birthday cake. Removing one's bra at this point would be less than appropriate!
3. What if the bra-wearer never finds her true love? Is she stuck in the bra for life? How will she take it off at night without a lover by her side? Does she have to watch stud muffins on repeat to lift her heart rate each evening, or will the bra drop off in pity after 24 hours without a high TLR score?
Hmmm...can't see this latest nutty Nippon invention being anything more than a 'party trick'!