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Steve Jobs on Flash (if only)

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:26:01 +0100

Steve Jobs on Flash (if only):

if only the world really worked like this. (sigh)

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Fri, 21 May 2010 18:42:51 +0100

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http://bit.ly/cnXHZO Excellent.

Sat, 08 May 2010 09:37:40 +0100

http://bit.ly/cnXHZO

Excellent.

Thoughts from an Abortion Doctor - Think Atheist

Fri, 07 May 2010 17:01:39 +0100

Thoughts from an Abortion Doctor - Think Atheist:

What a great article. Every ‘pro-lifer’ should be forced to write it out 100 times.

Coffee

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:34:25 +0100

Coffee

"While most languages initially seem impossible and only begin making sense much later, my..."

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 22:15:00 +0100

“While most languages initially seem impossible and only begin making sense much later, my experiences have taught me that English actually becomes more confusing. We have a mongrel language that has taken on words and rules unnecessarily, adding bits and pieces of whatever we like until there is no sense of order at all. Our language is slowly dissolving into nonsense. Poets and creatives should be appalled. It isn’t good for anything but business and politics, the only sectors where the more cryptically you talk, the better your chances of striking a deal.”

- http://bygonebureau.com/2010/03/19/the-awful-elements-of-english/

http://www.thearrogantatheist.com/menstruthimage.html

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 22:07:57 +0100

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Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:03:55 +0000

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The most badly drawn football field ever? This is Knowle West,...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:57:00 +0000

The most badly drawn football field ever?

This is Knowle West, Bristol. The building alongside the football field is the school where, presumably, the kids go to, er, learn. Apparently not geometry though. Or drawing. Or anything much in all likelihood. This football field was spotted during a balloon flight over the area. We almost fell out of the balloon through laughing so much. Then disbelief sank in. My god; they actually drew that?! Many residents from Knowle West cannot spell where they live and spell it, variously: noel west, nole west or nowl west. Bless.

Alice in Wonderland

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:40:53 +0000

Just seen the latest Tim Burton creation and what a disappointment. Yes, it has wonderful effects. Yes, its all very phantasmagorical and Mr Depp is adept at doing his usual stuff, though I didn’t quite understand why he had a Glaswegian accent; bit bizarre to say the least.

Unfortunately, despite it being Tim Burton, the film has ‘holywood dumb-down’ running all the way through it. Alice, originally, is not an immediately likeable character. She is cool, intellectual, snobbish, sharp and critical. Highly ambivalent as a main character. Which is probably one of the things which makes the original story so very interesting.

Tim Burton’s Alice is none of those things and instead is a walking stereotype of modern gender politics. She’s a ‘modern woman’ who refuses to marry a very badly portrayed man, because she is intelligent and strong and can ‘make her way just as good as any man’. Evidenced in the film as she steps into one masculine role after another before finally teaming up with a family relative to develop business activites in China. Just a completely bizarre and utterly unwarranted rewrite of the main central character of Lewis Carol’s Alice. Such a shame. It makes the film very boring and Alice so very anodyne and predicatable. She might as well have just stepped off the set of sex and the city.

Helena Bonham Carter is wasted as the red queen and as for Anne Hathaway as the white queen….why didn’t anyone tell her to stop waving her arms about in such an effected and annoying manner?

Overall - go and see it if you must. It’s worth it for the general feel of the sets. The twins are great, the speaking dog quite a likeable character and, er, that’s it. Oh, and don’t bother with the 3d either. You wouldn’t really know its 3d.

C’mon Mr Burton - you used to be so dark and genuinely original. What has happened to your story telling skills?

Can’t remember where I found this but god its funny.

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:12:32 +0000

Can’t remember where I found this but god its funny.

Discovered via stumble. (link below) What a perfect view. Yes....

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:11:00 +0000

Discovered via stumble. (link below) What a perfect view. Yes. Must try to remember it.

Post #1272122 - WriteSomething

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:10:00 +0000

Post #1272122 - WriteSomething

First Post

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:49:25 +0000

I think I’m gonna enjoy this! :-)