The Test Pattern wins!

In this week's BBC News magazine there is a non-serious
poll on revival of early TV programs and in a vote (below)
the test pattern or test card won out.

# BBC NEWS | Magazine (p4 of 4)
Rainbow and Play for Today are returning to our screens. What other TV
shows would you revive?
Nationwide
[hbar_limegreen.gif] 16.33%
The Herbs
[hbar_firebrick.gif] 38.95%
The test card
[hbar_lightskyblue.gif] 44.72%

5351 answers so far
Results are indicative and may not reflect public opinion
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http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/default.stm?dynamic_vot
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See http://www.meldrum.co.uk/mhp/testcard/
for a series of British and overseas test cards
(or "test patterns" in North America)

A small collection of international ones is at
http://www.meldrum.co.uk/mhp/testcard/around_world.html
But google.com/images or images.yahoo.com or alltheweb.com
for "test card" OR "test pattern" will get about 7000 images
on various pages.

The FAQ is somewhat interesting as to why the system of
patterns were chosen. http://www.meldrum.co.uk/mhp/testcard/faq.html

Probably no new test patterns will be produced until digital
television produced wide screen TV rather than "Academy ratio"
(4 x 3) TV.

Hmm.. I feel that I should find a large pixel one as the Desktop
pattern and maybe the so-called Screen Saver. Has someone already
done it?

Why is Xu Jinglei China's most popular blog

This, http://blog.sina.com.cn/m/xujinglei ,
is China's most popular blog.

And with a click payment to read, very lucrative.

Why is she so popular with no salacious pictures as some
others post?

What happened to the angry CBC lockout blogs?

PlanetCBC [ http://peterjanes.homeip.net/cbc/ ]
attempted to collect all the English language
blogs (The French CBC west of Ottawa river was
also locked out) that were dealing with
the lockout.

So what have they become?
Domestic, self-centred mewlings.

Should be have expected anymore?

Why doesn't everyone use mouseless web browsing?

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=879&application=firefox

Quick Description

Mouseless Browsing (MLB) means id-based browsing. Major goal of this extension is to enable browsing only by using the numpad keys.

HOW DOES IT WORK...

* Mouseless browsing bases on marking all links, form elements and frames with ids. If you do not like to see all of them, you can configure this in preferences dialog of MLB. You can trigger an action (e.g. following the link) by simply entering the id and depending on the configuration confirming it by pressing Enter. When the checkbox "Execute automatically..." is checked the action is automatically triggered after the specified delay for auto-execution.
......

Almost as good as Lynx or Blynx
[URL: http://leb.net/blinux/blynx/ ]
which can read blogs without a lot of paraphenalia