Shanghai Daily reports:

Bus stops to install TV screens

Waiting for the bus will no longer be quite so boring as bulletin boards with TV screens will be installed at bus stops. The screens will broadcast everything from entertainment programs and traffic news to weather forecasts and how long it will take before the next bus arrives, the Shanghai Urban Transport Bureau announced yesterday. The screens will be installed at more than 3,000 stops and the project will be completed by 2007. (...)

(Shanghai Daily, 2005-11-25 05:18:13)


In other news, TV screens to be installed at the crapper in your bathroom. TV screens to be installed at hospital surgery rooms. TV screens to be installed in prison cells at Guantanamo Bay. I have an idea: Why don't they just install them inside our eyelids at birth and be done with it once and for all? Waiting for death "will no longer be quite so boring". There's nothing boring about torture, after all.