Bring out a Mac version and we’ll talk.

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Ya think? Look here, cranky (all of Lynch, the person who made this parody and the person who posted it), no one is going to exclusively watch a worthwhile movie on the iPhone. If they do, they are indeed missing out. No one in their right mind does that. When I get an iPhone or an iPod touch, I’m going to have videos, cartoons and maybe even movies on it. Not because I think I’m experiencing the media in the manner the creator intended, but because I’ll be experiencing entertainment on a portable device in a manner I see fit. Quite frankly, with the horrendous drivel coming out of Hollywood these days, I don’t think I’d be missing much watching most movies on a 4″ screen. Either that or there’s some kind of special magic I’ll rob myself of, if I don’t watch Napoleon Dynamite or Borat in a theatre.

Get off your pretentious high horse you arrogant fucks, no one cares what you think. All we care about is having a sexy phones (this goes for any of the new generation phones with those nice, big, bright, gorgeous screens) with the ABILITY to play video. End of story.

Sorry about all that, here’s something to lighten the mood (since it’s so freakin’ awesome). God is a DJ;

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Spiderman 3 is a horrible, horrible movie. It is worse than Spiderman 1, which I didn’t think much of either. I put S1 on par with Daredevil. It wasn’t wholly awful, there were some entertaining parts, so here’s my positives and negatives:

The Good:

• Bruce Campbell’s performance as a French resterauntuer was simply fantastic. Hilarious in a John Cleese-style motif, Campbell was brilliant in its execution.
• Peter Parker walking down the street thinking he’s the shiz niz, after submitting himself to Venom, was also hilarious.
• Tobey Maguire can play a bad guy very well. He should be type cast as such. His other character acting skills I’ll get to in the bad.
• The action scenes were fantastic to watch. As you’d expect.

The Bad:

• Tobey Maguire can’t act unless he’s playing a complete bastard. As Peter Parker he had one facial expression; benign retardation.
• The movie was about 1 hour too long. Spiderman 3 would have been much better had they shortened or even cut out the scenes relating to the relationships of Peter Parker, Mary-Jane et al.
• There was no explanation for the venom creature. A meteorite landed and it crawled out. Coincidentally in a time and place where the only people around, in New York city mind, were Peter and Mary-Jane. What!? The movie spent 2.5 hours getting to little point, and they couldn’t give any background for the main enemy!?
• A portion of the venom creature was indentified by a physicist as looking like “a chondritic meteorite of the 70s”. No it didn’t, and I know it.
• At the end of the movie, when Spiderman races to save Mary-Jane in the finale battle-royale, he leaps from building to building and moves in front of a giant American flag. What!? This isn’t a moment of patriotism. It’s a man with power racing to save the woman he loves. This is not an action American at its base. I have many american friends, but seriously, if you’d been sitting in the same theatre I was, i.e, one not in the US, the overwhelming mutter at this scene was a whole-hearted “fuck off!”. American patriotism has no place in an international film like Spiderman. Seriously? Fuck off.

And I’ll leave it there. Save your cash, rent the DVD. It’s not worth a cinema ticket to see. And talking of the price of a cinema ticket, Sam Raimi and Sony owe me at least half of my money back.

I give Spiderman 3 a mark of 45%.

Sourced from GoNintendo

Sourced from Boing Boing. The manufacturer is the French company Smarin Design.

I remember the rainy days of my youth, before video games and the internet took over as my primary pass-times, being wholly devoted to making a new Lego “thing” out of bits of another Lego “thing”. I’m far too impatient these days, but just as demonstration of hpw extreme some people are, here’s two time-lapsed videos of the Death Star being built in Lego;

Remember how I said I’m too impatient these days? Well to emphasise that, I hereby agree with Scott Johnson that merely watching these videos, even in time-lapse form, makes me want to lie down and snooze. Urgh.

As a side note, I say “Lego” as the plural of Lego. I think saying “Legos” sounds retarded.

Hey, bro, what the fuck crawled under your floor and died?

I’d be speaking with marvellous wit, tempting your mind’s eye with a poetic play of prose and that sexy deep voice of mine. But no. I’m speaking literally here. Something, I am guessing a rat, crawled under my floor boards and proceeded to shuffle off its tiny mortal coil, leaving behind a haunting odour which could only be eloquently described as “a mixture of jockstrap, compost pale and shit”.

That’s what my room smells like.

You’d imagine living on a floor directly above a butcher, I would have been positively accepting of the smell of decaying flesh. Alas, for all the nights of being awoken by the glittering sounds of knives being sharpened and meat hooks being hung, I have only grown accustomed to the smell of the meat-smoking facility “out back”. And as I sit here at 2am, following a previous night’s sleep totalling 3 hours, finishing a website that has to be done right now, I can only imagine how peaceful it would be to be snuggled up, listening to the rain fall gently outside as I laid rotting under the floorboards.

I’ll be making more changes and adding a few things here and there over the next day or two, but overall, this is it. Feedback would be appreciated : )

The BBC has the details, including a picture of the suspected geospy, which looks like lithified, weathered mudstone.

Despite this, I am a fan of the haiku. It’s the limitations that produce the greatest creativity, and the humble 5-7-5 syllable structure is as restrictive as I’d care to be when expressing an idea. I especially appreciate haiku with a bit of humour or that managed to tell a story or set a scene with only 17 syllables. It is for this reason that I am going to write a few haiku in my own unique style.

Observe;

no one likes a poet
so write atypically
to piss them all off

Or;

graduates are smart
but lack life experience
that’s why we’re all drunk

I intend to keep this going over the next little while in order to inspire myself to keep this damn site updated : )

Yay! : )

My submission is available in a previous article, or as part of the amassed collection of submissions. There’s some goodins in there, so mad props and full respect to all the people who participated.

And here’s the source svg file.

It has been an impressive demonstration of how quickly you can rally the troops, as it were, on the internet.

A torrent (heh) of creativity has taken place over the last 2 days and it all started with Free Software’s nemesis, little Billy Gates making a comment during his CES keynote speech. Quoth he;

I’d say that of the world’s economies, there’s more that believe in intellectual property today than ever. There are fewer communists in the world today than there were. There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don’t think that those incentives should exist.

Well, that didn’t sit right with many people, one of which was Xeni Jardin over at BoingBoing, who whipped up a quick take on Gates’ comments after a suggestion from a reader: A communist flag with the copyleft logo in place of the hammer and sickle.

What followed can only be described as flash mob of creativity. Jaime Morrison followed Xeni’s lead and whipped up a fantastic soviet-style poster to add to what was becoming a call to arms.

From this vortex of creativity, came the Desktop Images and then came the t-shirts: One from Ryan Schroeder, and The Other (my favourite), from Giant Robot Printing. And finally the buttons: One and Two.

Just goes to show how we communists need little incentive to create.