Archive for the ‘Culture’ Category
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
I am going to come out and say it : I like Facebook.
Yes, I know it is a soulless corporate entity that sells out it's user base by allowing the various third-party apps to harvest data for nefarious ends. However the core idea is great and the site works well ...
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
I Write Like is a website that analyses a sample of writing and finds the closest match to a famous author's style. Running through a couple of my favourite entries from this blog gives the following result:
I write likeArthur C. ClarkeI Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze ...
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
I think it is best to say two things right up front : firstly, The Spoils is a collectable card game just like Magic the Gathering. If you are not familiar with this form of gaming the rest of this review is going to be impenetrable, but in short each ...
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Monday, June 14th, 2010
I really like what people have been doing with robotics in the last few years. Now that powerful CPUs are cheap and wireless communications ubiquitous, whole new areas are opening up for hobbyists to explore. Sure, someday those robots will undoubtedly rise up and destroy humanity, but until then why ...
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Sunday, June 6th, 2010
You find the most interesting things trawling through the "Incoming Links" section of the WordPress Admin Dashboard. According to this page at halfdone (I'd never heard of them either), Life of Andrew is the 151st in their list of NZ blogs that are "about something".
I am not entirely ...
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Monday, May 31st, 2010
A Christ-like fool of few words wanders around Mexico having surreal adventures before ascending into a tower to find a wise alchemist who becomes his guide on a journey to the titular mountain. Is it a Christian allegory? Is it a celebration of hippy mystical excess? Was it made in ...
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Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
It was bound to happen. People seemed to enjoy the first TV Theme Quiz so I fired up Audacity and created another 30 seconds of familiar ditties. Things were solved pretty quickly last time so I tried to make this one just a smidgeon harder - we will see if ...
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Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
Yes, it is the long rumoured American version of Outrageous Fortune. Actually, according to Wikipedia, it is the second attempt at a US remake - the first did not get past the pilot stage. It will be interesting to see if it turns up here.
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Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
2 weekends ago I participated in the annual 48 Hours Filmmaking Competition. Each team had to make a film containing a character named Sydney, a broken toy, the line "When you look at it that way", and a dolly zoom. Cutting straight to the chase, here is the result:
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Monday, April 12th, 2010
World War IV blasted the surface of the Earth to a barren wasteland across which roving bands of scabby bandits compete for sparse food supplies. Vic (Don Johnson!) is a young man who has teamed up with a telepathic dog to survive - Vic finds food for them both while ...
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Sunday, April 11th, 2010
Mr. Fox was a world class chicken thief but gave it all up years ago for a quiet middle-class existence when his child was born. He still yearns for some old-time larceny and naturally jumps at the chance for one last big score. Things do not go entirely to plan ...
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Sunday, March 14th, 2010
Below are the lyric fragments of 16 opening (or closing) themes to "classic" TV shows for you to guess. Feel free to post your answers in the comments, using Google is cheating...
Baby, if you've ever wondered,
Wondered whatever became of me,
I'm living on the air in Cincinnati...
Friendly faces everywhere
Humble folks without ...
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Saturday, March 6th, 2010
It's Oscar season; presented for your consideration:
A Trailer for Every Academy Award Winning Movie Ever -- powered by Cracked.com
Personally I think it is a shame they missed out the female lead's gay male best friend who gives invaluable relationship advice and it really needs at least one dog.
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Following up on the epic 10 minute rap summary of Robocop, the same team has released Aliens:
open at youtube.com
Watching this reminds me what a great film Aliens turned out to be and how Avatar (by the same director) pales in comparison. It's not that Avatar was terrible but nobody ...
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Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
James Cameron has always been an interesting film maker. Although on one level most of his films could be classified as pulpy genre-related fare, they usually have a more interesting subtext lurking below the explosions. Previous Cameron films have investigated such themes as mother/daughter relationships, humanity's fear of the unknown, ...
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