The producer of the most popular television program in the world speaks about the upcoming 13th season of Top Gear.

Basically Hammond, May and I went to see AC/DC, and there they were, nine thousand years old, still making your ears bleed with the same pulverising ferocity they managed three decades ago, and you think to yourself, it doesn’t matter if your pony has one trick as long as it does that trick really, really well, and more importantly, it really cares every time it performs that trick. And immodestly, I can say to you all, we still really, really care about what we do.

The fire we have inside about giving you good telly burns as fiercely as it did in 2002. So sit back and enjoy Top Gear 13, the same old shit.

"If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue." -- Index aid in 1897 Sears catalog.

I'm not sure progress has gotten us much.

Index aid in Microsoft's PowerPoint 2007

What happened to the Summary Slide and table of contents options?

1. The ability to create a summary slide and a table of contents slide in your presentation is not available in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. Instead, to create your own summary or table of contents slide by copying slide titles onto a new slide, do the following:
   
   On the Home tab, in the Slides group, click the arrow under New Slide, and then click a slide layout that contains a large body text placeholder (placeholders: Boxes with dotted or hatch-marked borders that are part of most slide layouts. These boxes hold title and body text or objects such as charts, tables, and pictures.) (such as Title and Content, Two Content, Comparison, or Content with Caption).
   
   Note If you add a Blank slide layout, you must then add a text box. To do this, on the Insert tab, in the Text group, click Text Box, and then drag to draw a large text box on the new slide.
   
   
2. In the pane that contains the Outline and Slides tabs, click Slides.
   
   
3. For each slide that you want to add to the summary or table of contents, copy the title in the title placeholder, and then paste it onto the new slide in the order in which the slide appears in your presentation.

Basically they don't have any functionality in PowerPoint to build you an index or table of contents in an automated fashion, so instead they give you step by step directions for how to by hand create a static table of contents.

And Microsoft wonders why people hate it?

Connecticut has some interesting quirks in its laws that make it a bit more fun than its neighbors.

For example, unlike in most states, it is currently legal in CT for passengers to drink in a moving car. This costs the state some federal highway funds each year (I think they go to safety programs instead), but it makes the state a nicer place to live.

Picking a friend up at the airport? -- Bring 'em a beer to enjoy on the ride.

Going out for a night on the town? Your passengers can warm up on the way there, and keep the party going between stops. Heck, they can even have an unnecessary beer on the way home.

So long as the driver isn't drinking (or drunk), and the passengers are of legal age, it's all OK.

Pretty much every legislative session someone will introduce a bill to change the law so that Connecticut doesn't forfeit the federal highway money it loses by refusing to comply.

It never passes because most folks like things the way they are.

Some years the bill introduced to change the law becomes a magnet for silly amendments, like the following. SKIP TO THE BOLD PART FOR THE GOOD STUFF.

General Assembly

Amendment February Session, 2008
LCO No. 6132 *SB0030106132HRO*

Offered by:
REP. MINER, 66th Dist.

To: Senate Bill No. 301


File No. 81


Cal. No. 469

(As Amended by Senate Amendment Schedule "A")

"AN ACT CONCERNING THE DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES. "

Strike section 5 in its entirety and insert the following in lieu thereof:

"Sec. 5. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2008) (a) For the purposes of this section:

(1) "Alcoholic beverage" has the same meaning as [...];

(2) "Highway" has the same meaning [...];

(3) "Open alcoholic beverage container" means [...];

(4) "Passenger" means any occupant of a motor vehicle other than the operator; and

(5) "Passenger area" means [...].

(b) No person shall possess an open alcoholic beverage container within the passenger area of a motor vehicle while such motor vehicle is on any highway or highway right-of-way in this state.

(c) The provisions of subsection (b) of this section shall not apply to: (1) Any passenger in a motor vehicle designed, maintained and primarily used for the transportation of persons for hire; (2) any passenger in the living quarters of a recreational vehicle, as defined in section 14-1 of the 2008 supplement to the general statutes; (3) any passenger in a privately-owned motor vehicle operated by a person in the course of such person's usual employment transporting passengers at the direction of such person's employer; (4) any passenger in a passenger motor vehicle, if one of such passengers is the owner or lessee of such vehicle and can establish, by means including, but not limited to, a receipt for payment made to the operator, that such operator has been hired by such owner or lessee to operate such vehicle; or (5) any passenger in a motor vehicle traveling to or from a Viking funeral, as defined in section 501 of this act.

[...]

After the last section, add the following and renumber sections and internal references accordingly:

"Sec. 501. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2008) Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 7-64 and 7-69 of the general statutes, the body of a person who dies in this state may be disposed of in a Viking funeral. Such funeral may be conducted only on the Connecticut waters of Long Island Sound with natural materials. An official of the Department of Environmental Protection or the Long Island Soundkeeper shall authorize final disposition of a body given a Viking funeral. For the purposes of this section, "Viking funeral" means a ceremony in which the body of a deceased person is laid in a boat with several of his possessions and the boat is set on fire while being put out to sea. "

I'd love to see a court case if this ever became law.