The Hurt Locker cleaned up show at the Academy Awards last night in Los Angeles and has been haled by many critics as a near perfect film. That is of course if you discount that the film was set in 2004, as made explicitly clear at the start of the picture, and featured a reference to putting a film on YouTube which launched in 2005 and featured a character playing an Xbox 360 which launched in November 2005 and Gears of War on said Xbox 360 which went on sale in November 2006. Oops! Read more…
Its the little victories that count, and the public of Derby have spoken. With an overwhelming 89% of the 27,000 votes cast, Derby’s new £36.2 million inner ring road is set to named after the city’s most famous make-believe woman. Read more…
Recorded at an Intelligence2 debate in 2009, in this video Stephen Fry advocates in the most staggeringly eloquent manner why he believes the Catholic church is not a force for good in the world. He explains how he has absolutely no issue with those individuals who take solace in belief but instead challenges the exuberant foundation on which the faith has been built. This video is quite long, but if you aren’t entirely captivated by Stephen Fry’s presentation you may well be a goldfish. Read more…
Each year companies pay hand over fist for advertising space during the Superbowl the result of which is usually some of the best adverts of the year. Thanks to the wonders of the internet and inspired by the illustrious works over at 2ne.co.uk find below the best picks of the bunch from last nights Superbowl. If you would like to see Megan Fox in a bath tub or a small child slapping her mother’s would be suitor, you’re in for a treat. Read more…
For those of you who have been hiding under a rock for the past six months or for those point-blank refusing to read anything to do with Apple’s tablet for fear of reading only accentuated fan-boy commentary or demeaning Cupertino-hating slander, Apple released their latest product, the iPad yesterday. As an Apple enthusiast watching the event and promotional videos and revelling in the photographs surrounding the launch was utter bliss, however in the midst of all the corporate propaganda and technical wizardry this Apple sympathiser partially lost his objectivity. Read more…
Two scumbags from Portland decided it would be socially acceptable to grant themselves access to a nearby household and proceeded to help themselves to a range of electronic devices. Little did they know that the very electronics they sought to steal would turn on them. Read more…
