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Oh, this is going to be brutal.  Mercilessly stolen from
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Due to catastrophic laptop failure I was feeling bored and trapped in Nottingham last night, so off I trundled to the local Cinemax.  the only thing on which a) I hadn't seen and b) didn;t look as if it would make me want to murder puppies was Nicholas Cage's "Next", based on the Philip K Dick short story "The Golden Man"

Now, I really liked "The ( Read more... )

I'm all in favour of stupid wastes of time which relieve the monotony of the wait for the 5 o'clock exodus.  According the the Beeb, Google have just created a fine one.  Google Trends shows the top 100 searches for the day, so now you can have fun trying to work out what bit of media has triggered a rush to googlise some mad-arsed phrase.

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Another fun web comic, found through a cross reference between I Can Has Cheezburger and Bunny.

www.xkcd.com should appeal to anyone who has a maths degree (?!).  Can someone fill me in as to why it's called XKCD though?


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Good news and bad.  The good news is I won a couple of tickets to go and see Dead Man's Shoes at the NFT this Sunday.  The bad news is I forgot that my parents are coming over for the weekend.  So does anyone want two free tickets to go and see this rather excellent film?

Has anyone else noticed that poker is deceptively hard.  I mean, seriously hard.  I thought it was a fun game where you took a bit of a punt on whether your hand could beat your opponents' given a few extra cards hitting the table.  But nooooo!  It's about quantifying probability of success versus the expected mean value of your rate of return ( Read more... )

There was an article in the Sunday Times a few weeks ago about a new series which started recently in America.  The Riches stars Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver as a pair of American-Irish travellers/gypsies who, together with their three children, take over the identity of an affluent couple they accidentally killed in a car crash.

And it's good.  ( Read more... )

Whilst prepping for our wedding, Nat and I fell victim to one of the multitude of Chinese fakery producing outfits that now populate the web.  We were trying to find gifts for the people who helped out and ended up being sold a load of cheap, fake branded tat instead.  We were able to sort it all out in the end and got a refund for the goods but it ( Read more... )

Around the turn of the year I discovered the super-satelite system on Pokerstars and decided I'd like a bit of that.  Very simply, you play in a low stake tournament (around a tenner a go) to win an entry into a larger stake tournament (anything from £200 to £400 an entry) and from there you win an expensive seat to a live event which can normally ( Read more... )