I’m breaking the book-review cycle around here, but you all have to go out and read Neil Gaiman’s new book, Anansi Boys, right now.
I’ll do a proper review later, but basically I think it’s probably the best novel he’s done, and the best book I’ve read this year. Get to it!
Lab worker accused of stealing tasty braaaains. Reports of missing adrenal glands are unconfirmed at this time.
The Queensland state government has said it would investigate allegations that a forensic laboratory worker stole parts from human brains so they could be injected into racehorses to make them run faster.
The worker at a pathology lab in the [...]
I’ve just got back from trying to see Night Watch. Sadly, I was foiled in the attempt by generally incompetent cinema staff.
When the film started the projector was misaligned, so the subtitles were off the bottom of the screen. I went to complain and was told that the projectionist was on his way to [...]
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign trail ‘72 - Hunter S. Thompson: Re-reading this for the first time in a while, and I think I’m enjoying it even more than before, mainly because by now I’ve got a bit more of an understanding of how the U.S. election system works. Bits of it still hint [...]
Whenever I’ve done backups of my home PC, I’ve pretty much just saved things like the website data and my programming projects, and ignored all the mp3s on the machine. The thinking was “Hey, I’ve got all the original CDs, so they’re, like, ready-made backups.”
Then I started thinking “You know, having to re-rip all [...]
1. A scarily obsessive-compulsive guide to made up words from The Simpsons. Stuff like this reminds me why I love the Internet.
2. The funniest car review ever. I know that doesn’t sound like much of an endorsement, but this took me about 10 minutes to read because I kept having to stop and laugh uncontrollably.
3. [...]
Do I have to explain this? Cannibal pumpkins! It’s a vision of what could have been, if Calvin had been into Halloween rather than Christmas!
Need I remind you all that Black and White 2 will be available to buy tomorrow?
Back to the silly music videos: Glósóli by Sigur Rós. The video’s pretty good, but really it’s just an excuse to listen to the song some more. Definitely the track of the year to date. Now, if only the rest of the album was as good as this.
Ow.
I’ve just turned the palm of my right hand into hamburger meat by tripping on a raised bit of pavement after leaving Project Orange in Clapham Junction.
I’ve no idea exactly what I fell into, but by the looks of things, it was something close to a belt sander. Note that this was due to pure [...]
What. The. Monkey. Jesusing. Hell? He-Man does 4-Non-Blondes. (As in, He-Man sings a 4-Non-Blondes song, not… oh whatever, get away from me you filthy-minded freaks!)
Over the weekend I went to a bunch of things at the ResFest at the National Film Theatre. Most of the things I went to were collections of either stand-alone short films or music videos, focusing either on animation or some fuzzy “exciting new design” gubbins. I’ve got lots of things to complain about, but [...]
Nicholas Cage and his wife have named their newborn son Kal-el Coppola Cage. (Note, if you’re not a nerd, that Kal-El is Superman’s real name.)
Why are famous people allowed to do this to their kids? Is it just because they know they’ll be able to pay the future therapist bills? More to the point, why [...]
What do you get for the goth who has everything? If they already have the black clothes, black bedsheets and black kitchen suite, then what’s left? Why, black toilet paper of course! Help them truly get in touch with the inner darkness…