Went and saw Garbage at the Metro last night, courtesy of my wonderful wife who bought me the ticket. Extra bonus was Machine Gun Fellatio as the support act. MGF were pretty funny, and Garbage were bloody brilliant, one of the best live shows I’ve seen. Shirley has amazing crowd rapport, I [...]

This is great. It’s another geek movie (as in, has geeks in it) but does them quite realistically. Tim Robbins plays Gary Winston, (whom they take the time to point out is not Bill Gates) head of a monopolistic and predatory software company (which we must assume therefore is meant to look like [...]

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28151
This came out 2 weeks after the World Trade Center etc. I read it only a couple of days after, but it’s only in the months since then that I’ve absorbed how much it means to me. The Onion is so satirical and absurd that you wouldn’t expect how much this item transcends irony [...]

So Prince Harry smoked some drugs. Big woop. The future will be much worse.
Think of poor Harry, in the shadow of his glamourous mother and a brother who is the future king, as well as teen idol. Poor Harry, with dumb freckles and his dad’s sticky-out ears, third in line for the [...]

http://www.shockwave.com/sw/content/inklink15
Ok so I’m not a big fan of Shockwave/Flash stuff wantonly stuck in websites for no reason. Let me rephrase that – it’s bloated and unnecessary and I kinda hate it. With that out of the way, I really like Flash games. And this one is great fun. It’s basically online [...]

http://www.actsofgord.com/
Gord works at a video games hire/buy shop. He is what every shop assistant wishes they could be. Pounds shoplifters, insults idiots. It’s probably just the alter ego imaginings of someone who is actually shy and timid, you know how ten minutes after you have a confrontation you think of what you [...]

I’m getting a bit behind in these reviews, I saw this the same time as Moulin Rouge! I have a couple more to do, I’ll space em out over the next few days.
So apparently the RSA security dudes consulted on this film regarding the technical details of cracking and suchlike. They certainly did [...]