“You people just cannot be trusted” – Cameron UK Prime Minister David Cameron called an emergency press conference at 8am this morning, to announce that the usual 1st April tradition of April Fools’ Day would be cancelled this year for the general public’s safety, in light of the recent petrol panic-buying trauma. “It is with [...]
I’ve just been awoken, for the third time in recent memory, in the early hours of the morning, by my computer deciding to play the YouTube-based music video I’d left open in a browser tab, all by itself, for no reason. Well, I say “for no reason”, but that reason can only possibly be “because [...]
Picture the scene: you picks up your mobile phone, and you dials in a specific class of number, usually free from a land line – an 0800, say. Now perhaps other networks are different but, with Orange, you presses dial and the first thing you’s greeted with is a lovely little pre-recorded message; You’ll be [...]
I was moseying around those “internets” things today, as one does, when I happened across the following little “motivational”, as they are known: A kid pointing a gun at another kid! “Pretty amusing shocking”, I thought, and decided to check if it was actually real. Slapping the address into Google Maps and dropping down to [...]
Every couple of years, spookily coinciding with the World Cup and/or European Championships, me old mucker Mikey W likes to hold a little football-based sweepstake, of a sort. Anyone that wanted to take part would pay a small fee, predict what they thought the outcomes of all the matches in the particular tournament would be, [...]
Really, Sony, what the fuck is this shit. It’s pretty cynical, even by Sony’s usual standards of trying to be Down With The Kids and being street and/or internet. If things have really deteriorated to the point where OMG can be used in legitimate, non-ironic advertising, I really do fear for us all. Whatever next?! [...]
For some curious reason I haven’t even begun to fathom, today is a national day of celebration of the life and times of Robbie Coltrane’s character from a couple of Bond films, Valentin Zukovsky. It really is quite an odd tradition, especially as his first appearance was only as recent as 1995′s Goldeneye – from [...]
So the Space Year 2008 is finally almost dead and buried, and with just under 24 hours of its measly life left to live before its corpse starts to rot and stink up the place, now’s a pretty good time for a bit of a backwards glance, a look back over the past 12 months [...]
Well, they might be if a team of Japanese scientists’ claims are to be believed (and exagerated (rather a lot)). They’ve managed to reconstruct images a person was looking at, by analysing their brain activity. Spook! To do this, they hooked up a functional magnetic resonance imaging machine to some people’s heads, showed them a [...]
Ok so against popular opinion (and the often accurate portent of it only being advertised a matter of weeks before release) I decided it might be a good idea to go and see the remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still. Was it the right decision? Only time (and some SPOILERS) will tell! Firstly, [...]