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Ninja cats and dogs.
Ninja cats and dogs.
So cute and amazing!
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.
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
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.
Daniel Craig continues to brutally kick ass as Britain’s favourite sociopath in Quantum of Solace.
CNET News: PGP, IBM help Bletchley Park raise funds
A campaign will be launched on Tuesday to ask U.S. tech companies to help save Bletchley Park, whose wartime work helped lay the foundations of modern computing and crytography.
The fund-raising campaign will be led by cryptography provider PGP, together with IBM and other technology firms. Phil Dunkelberger, chief executive of PGP, told ZDNet UK in a video interview that the group of companies would be making donations to repair the buildings at Bletchley Park, including the National Museum of Computing, and would be calling for other organizations to get involved.
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This amazing simulation of a spider is both cool and pretty creepy (you can place flies for it to scuttle over and eat).
Also it reminds me of what I think is my only phobia – the fear of giant spiders. I couldn’t find a term for it anywhere so I’ve coined Gigantarachnophobia.
I have no problem with spiders generally but once they get to be the size of a cat or larger then we enter phobia territory. Thankfully as long as I keep away from the jungle of The Congo I don’t think I’ll ever encounter a spider big enough to be scared of. And even then I don’t think the J’ba fofi as the Baka people call them really exist.
Having been immersed in the lives of the US Marine First Recon Battalion for the past seven weeks I felt at a loose end when the miniseries Generation Kill ended.
I loved Generation Kill, appreciated its realism and because it was based upon accounts of real events it was extremely close to being a documentary. Thanks to Amazon’s “Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought” feature I found a similar series but from a British point of view, the documentary series Ross Kemp in Afghanistan.
This five part series sees actor and investigative journalist Ross Kemp and a tiny film crew embedded with the Royal Anglian Regiment’s 1st Battalion (The Vikings) who were deployed to Helmand Province in 2007.
It’s viewable online at YouTube, but if you can buy the DVD do so because some of the profits of each sale go to the Army Benevolent Fund.
Bloody excellent documentary that makes you appreciate the sacrifice that British soldiers are making in defeating the Taliban.