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"The bowler’s Holding, the batsman’s Willey"

Just had a customer at the cinema who wished to buy tickets but had forgotten her membership card with which she could get a discount off the price. So I asked her name so that I could search the members database to find her, she replied “wily, spelt W-i-l-l-e-y.”

I thought interesting as that’s not how I’d pronounce that surname and it put me in mind of the apocryphal quote attributed to cricket commentator Brian Johnston in regards to the West Indian bowler Michael Holding.

“The bowler’s Holding, the batsman’s Willey.”

And through his Wikipedia entry I find the following YouTube video of what is regarded as the best bowled over of Test cricket ever.

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Review: Jar City

Jar City

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Review: Righteous Kill

Righteous Kill

Mediocre thriller that is not half as intelligent as it thinks and the twist is obvious from the very start. The performances of both Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro are good and are better than most of their work from the past decade but even they can’t elevate the inferior story.

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To the mysteries of Dark Matter and Dark Energy we can add Dark Flow

Mysterious New ‘Dark Flow’ Discovered in Space. “As if the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy weren’t vexing enough, another baffling cosmic puzzle has been discovered. Patches of matter in the universe seem to be moving at very high speeds and in a uniform direction that can’t be explained by any of the known gravitational forces in the observable universe. Astronomers are calling the phenomenon ‘dark flow.’ The stuff that’s pulling this matter must be outside the observable universe, researchers conclude.” [via]

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Usable solves the password problem?

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Review: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

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Ninja cats and dogs.

Ninja cats and dogs.

So cute and amazing!

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Review: The Banishment

The Banishment

Bleak and tense Russian film directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev who had directed the equally bleak film The Return. The adult characters are full of inner turmoil which never quite breaks the surface and the tension builds throughout the slow moving film with little release even through the very dramatic scenes that normally act as release valves in films like this.

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Review: Somers Town

Somers Town

Sweet and fun little film directed by Shane Meadows that potentially could have been as dark as his previous works but is better for not being so.

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Happy Large Hadron Collider Day

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The Telegraph: Large Hadron Collider vital for humanity

Prof Hawking said the £4.4bn machine, in which scientists are about to recreate conditions just after the Big Bang, is “vital if the human race is not to stultify and eventually die out.”

And he sought to ease fears that the machine could have apocalyptic effects. “The world will not come to an end when the LHC turns on,” Prof Hawking said, adding: “The LHC is absolutely safe.”

Not according to this guy.

The large Hadron Collider may be a lot more sinister than has already been percieved. The LHC may be capable of making a hole in the Van Allen Belt. The Van Allen Belt protects the Earth from Cosmic rays. It also stops any living creature from leaving or entering the Earth. The LHC is a doorway for the return of Satan himself.

For the latest on whether the Earth has been destroyed by the Large Hadron Collider.