Archive for September, 2008

Movie Review : Taken

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

A man reluctantly lets his teenage daughter take a trip to Paris. As soon as she arrives she a kidnapped (or taken, if you will) by an evil white slavery ring. Luckily she was on the phone to her father at the time and manages to scream out a description ...

Hitler, the Universal Simile

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

It is a sad fact that in any Internet debate on any topic, one side (or more probably, both sides) will eventually be compared to Hitler. This is often called Godwin's law, after a man called Mike Godwin who first proposed it in 1990, although another term, Reducto Ad Hitlerum, ...

But who will watch the Watchmen?

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

I have just finished rereading the comic book graphic novel Watchmen. It's a cracking read, filled with Big Ideas and it uses the comic graphic medium to great advantage - telling the story in a way that really wouldn't work in a traditional written novel. The artwork is visually stunning ...

Chrome

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

So Google is going where angels fear to tread, and has released a browser of their own: Chrome. This is a very interesting move; I can think of a few reasons why Google might think a custom browser might be a good idea: although everyone thinks of Google as a ...