This is awesome. Makes me want to buy both the console and the game. As well as the stunning graphics and fantastic reviews, of course… (of GoW).
All posts by Armand
Bad Science
I know the interweb’s a big place and all, but I can’t believe its taken me this long to find Bad Science (via Ben), a brilliant deconstruction of false, stupid, inaccurate representations of science in the media and the world at large.
The site, written by Dr Ben Goldacre, a “serious fcuk-off academic ninja,” includes his column from the Guardian (of the same name) alongside a bunch of bonus materials (correspondence with crackpot ‘scientists’ etc).
Worth reading for anyone with an interest in science, PR tactics that could go wrong, and people who think that equations about the popularity of TV programmes have any validity whatsoever.
Man, my Bloglines feed pool is getting big.
Knife wrench – for kids!
It’s a genius concept. Practical and safe.
Scrubs is genius. They keep making really poignant episodes. I’m such a sensie.
Separated at birth?
I think I might be related to Jables. Check out this photo of my brother, Arvind, and note the similarity of goatee to JB’s. Henceforth I shall be known as Armand D.
Explosivo!
Today was the D-Line.
When I got the Orange Wednesday text in after a hard day’s, erm, rockin’, I was pretty psyched. Very few people I know showed any sign of enthusiasm, mild interest, or even moderate contempt at seeing this film: even my most juvenile friends thought it would be rubbish. Naysayers. They didn’t bother me. Patty Y joined me for what was possibly the cinematic experience of the century (according to the trailer).
It was Destiny.
The movie is exactly as good as it should be. Completely true to everything that is the D: fast paced, funny, coherent in a trippy sort of way, and definitely rocking. Man, does this movie rock. And whilst it plays to the conventions very well… it does some things differently. Sometimes when you expect it to rock… it rolls. And when you’re expecting a patronising speech… you get a bizarre lesson about Satan being in everyone’s heart.
I am not sure that non-fans, or the weak of spirit, will really get this film. I mean, if you don’t like swearing, then you can ******* **** right off. If you don’t like rocking, well, you too, buddy. So I don’t know if I can, in good conscience, recommend it to everyone. But if you’ve ever chuckled at *any* of Jack Black’s songs, go see Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny, on a disappointingly limited release in the UK right now. It won’t make you laugh as much as Borat did, but it will make you laugh.
Oh, and that couple that was making out in the front of the cinema at the Trocadero? What was that all about? Mind you, I suspect the D would approve…
Aside: my ultimate team-up right now. For a band, project, comic book, whatever:
Jables & Cage
Kevin Smith
Neil Gaiman
John Cusack
Matt Stone & Trey Parker
Scarlett Johannson (because she should be in everything)
That would be great.
The video sharing wars
This is quite funny, if you have some time to spare and can cope with simultaneous video clips. To be honest, they all look the same to me, quality wise. YouTube has better community, Revver pays you for content, and, erm, Google Video… owns YouTube? That’s pretty much its strongest feature.
Via Scoble: I must get about half my interesting links at the moment between Scoble and BoingBoing. The volume of Scoble’s posts is scary. Oh, Chris Pirillo is the man who made the video.
Welcome, wine discount seekers
I’ve had, like, 700 hits in the last 24 hours for the Threshers post, so hope you all lap it up (‘scuse the pun). It’s cropped up all over the blogosphere, so it seems like this was a clever marketing stunt by Threshers and Hugh hit the tone write with his blog post, causing people everywhere to download it.
Great hit, Threshers, Stormhoek, Hugh, and everyone else who was involved. I plan to make use of the voucher this weekend if there is any wine left in my local branch! The store finder is here, if you want it.
Update: various people have pointed out that, as the 3 for 2 offers are invalid with the 40% discount voucher, you would only be receiving a 7.67% additional discount. Still, not too shabby!
Update 2: It’s 10%. My maths stinks.
Update 3: The BBC wrote an article, and I had 1,500 visitors yesterday (usually I get about 70-80). My bandwidth bills are going to be up a bit this month…
Torchwood – still good
Seven episodes in and I’m still enjoying Torchwood. Yes, there was some bizarre continuity thing that went wrong after episode 4 (the Cyberwoman one) — Tom and I talked about it and guessed that they might have been forced to shuffle the episode order around after the series was written, and poor Ianto was left without adequate closure.
It’s a good team, good people, simple, but outrageously absurd stories… Strong, character driven fiction. And they’ve stuck in *so* much sexual tension in half a season that I quite simply have no idea where to look. What will happen next week? They’re actually going to run out of permutations of people who can kiss if they keep going at this rate… guest starring alien lesbian murderers notwithstanding.
And Indira Vharma looks like she might be back next week. Exciting!
Armand’s 30 word reviews: Casino Royale
It is good. Lots of product placement. Good explosions. The Frenchman, Mathis, is slightly patronising if you know anything about poker. Eva Green is beautiful, but annoying.
That is all.
HEROES
This new Justice League game looks fun!
Video for you.
Sure, the trailer’s not great, it’s not next gen, and there’s never been a good Justice League game, but why not? It could happen.