Pros don't use red-eye functions either, instead they point the flash so that it reflects onto the subject on an angle, for example off the ceiling, rather than going straight to the subject (hence directly into the eye) and straight back. It also gives much more even and natural lighting.

Of course, point-and-shoot cameras don't let you aim the flash, thus hobbling you. Tragic.

This is very true, and pretty obvious. I mean, consider *any* tourist attraction. The great wall of China, Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower, Stonehenge, Macchu Picchu, Niagara Falls, whatever. All of these things have been photographed and videotaped in immense detail. They have been imaged from every possible angle, at every possible time of day or year, from the air, from satellites, from the ground, from inside, whatever. And the best of these images are usually available in books, postcards, on the internet, etc.

And yet people still go see them. In droves. Massive crowds of people. Paying admission fees, nevermind flights. Obviously there is still a huge market for people to see things with their own eyes, and there likely always will be.

Its slashdot for God's sake. If you can't laugh at someone's death here where can you?

You can't, and 4chan.

Just because someone is driving defensively doesn't mean it's okay for you to cut them off.

Yes the linesmen are reasonably safe and always act as if all lines are live. But that's a *failsafe*, it is not nor is it intended to be their first line of defense, it is their *last* line of defense. There's a reason the laws and codes tell you you cannot connect a generator that way.

Also the part where you're feeding up to 100 amps through not just one, but *two* sockets which are rated for a maximum of 15amp. It doesn't even matter how heavy duty your extension cord is.

Mark V Shaney or a similar Markov-chain based text generator is probably nearly ideal for such a project. It will spew often incomprehensible, sometimes hilariously comprehensible gibberish about whatever it has heard being talked about.