Text-heavy this time round, so you children of the post-literate age might not like it (in other words: no Youtube for you).

1. Guarded optimism on Making Light about the forthcoming Watchmen film. Read the comments for plenty of discussion about Starship Troopers and Lord of the Rings. Personally, as with the latter film(s), I can see them quite ( Read more... )

1. Don't get the 24 DVD board game, it's shit. Myself, tafftails and Rich played it last night and we gave up playing it (you don't need the board to actually play it and the DVD minigames are glitchy as hell). In addition, Keef only makes a voiceover appearance.

2. The Green Lantern Theory of Geopolitics.

Stuff wot I hav sen on thee net:

1. Steampunk Transformers (via Qwghlm).

2. Incredible Machines from Japan (with gratuitous Marmite jar) #1 and #2 (YouTube Videos).

3. Is Moldova the new (old) Ireland? (via A Fistful of Euros).

4. Clange!!! (via everywhere).

The deliberate mistake was that Pegg and Schwimmer are not "together at last!", they both shared screentime on Band of Brothers. Of course, looking over the entry again, I see a couple of unintended mistakes as well (plus a bonus deliberate one).

America, not as bad as Galactus

As jaxvor has said to me, the fourth player in our Birthright RPG group is becoming a bit of a "drummer from Spinal Tap" position. In other words, there's a vacancy. Anyone who fancies playing must meet the following stringent criteria ( Read more... )