Goddamit!
They just had to go and pull it out of the bag with the finale of the show and remind me why I love it so much when they get it right that I’m now seriously pissed off that we won’t get a fourth season.
The finale was a good solid episode with a few really bloody fantastic moments.
The whole ‘How do you stop an exploding man?’ thing resolved exactly how I thought it would with Nathan to the rescue, like my friend Trace I saw this happening half a season ago.
Loved it when Ando said Hiro looked badass and Hiro’s response to that. 
Molly Walker’s mention of a man that scares her even more than Sylar. 
Nikki smacking the shit out of Sylar and then Peter presumably absorbed her super-strength was cool and if the blood trail to the manhole is any indication we may yet get the full on Peter vs Sylar showdown we were missing here.
Hiro in 17th century Japan. Hells yeah! 
Cannot possibly wait until the second season. If only I could time travel to the future like Hiro. 
Just WOW! Best episode ever! The last few episodes of the season better be this good.
We’re gonna be having some kinda of showdown between The Others and The Flight 815 survivors for sure when they come for Sun.
I hope we get the explanation for who or what Jacob is too. Also how the fuck does Richard not appear to have aged in 30 years?
I think Jacob in the very brief glimpse that we saw of him looked like Locke but with hair and a bit of a beard. Although given my theorising about what’s going on that is probably wrong and it’s not Locke at all.
I think that Ben became the leader of the Others because Richard recognised he had a special affinity with the island when he learnt that Ben was able to see his dead mother there and by that also have the ability to communicate with Jacob (who or what ever he might be).
I think Ben was able to summon his mother there in the same way that I believe Locke summoned his own father.
Ben fears that the Others may choose to replace him with Locke who seems to have a greater affinity with the island than Ben currently does. Richard undermined Ben’s plan to remove Locke from the group by giving Locke the means to kill his father through Sawyer.
Perhaps Richard is the real man behind the curtain.
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Best headline ever.
Skywalkers in Korea cross Han solo
SEOUL, South Korea – They came from all over the world, poles in hand, and feet ready to inch more than half a mile across a high wire strung over the Han River in a spine-tingling battle of balance, speed and high anxiety.
As part of its annual city festival, the South Korean capital staged Thursday what was billed as the world’s first high-wire championship, drawing 18 contestants from nine countries for three days of supreme feats of concentration.
Each acrobat must navigate the 1.2-inch-thick wire that spans the river, with the top prize of $15,000 going to the person crossing it fastest.
Great, kid. Don’t get cocky.
Best Han Solo quotes ever and when to use them in conversation.
But one of my personal favourites is missing from the list.
And I thought they smelled bad… on the outside!
Not sure if you could use that in polite conversation though. 
Is it just me or does CTU LA seem to be the least secure Counter Terrorist facility on the planet. I’ve lost track now of how many times it has been successfully infiltrated or attacked it seems to have at least once a season if not more.
Hour 21 of Season 6 and it has happened again and been taken over by Chinese agents. Poor foolish Milo. This would never have happened had Bill Buchanan been left in charge!
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Cricket World Cup Final
I’ve not caught a whole lot of the 2007 Cricket World Cup but I just watched the final and it was a really extraordinary match in more ways than one.
Adam Gilchrist put in a truly astounding performance and scored 149 off 104 balls and broke two records in the process not only the highest total in a World Cup Final but also the quickest century too.
Thanks to Gilchrist the Australian team set a daunting total for Sri Lanka of 282 from 38 overs to win (due to rain the number of overs was reduced to 38).
The Sri Lankans to their credit didn’t seem too fazed by this and when Sanath Jayasuriya and Kumar Sangakkara got into their flow they looked to be on target to get the required runs. The loss of Sangakkara’s wicket came as a bit of a blow but that did mean that their captain Jayawardene would be coming to the crease and if he could pull off yet another great innings as he did in the semi-final against New Zealand there was still some hope.
It wasn’t to be though as firstly Jayasuriya’s wicket fell, the weather stopped play yet again and on the return Jayawardene suffered a bad LBW decision.
With the light fading and the run rate rising to unattainable levels the match descended into farce when with three overs to go the umpires offered the light to the batsmen. Everyone then assumed the match was over and Australia were declared the winners of the tournament followed by the organisers bringing out the stanchions onto the pitch for the award ceremony only for the umpires to order them off and to restart the match again.
The foregone conclusion now reached it’s actual conclusion with the end of the 36 over and Australia were now officially the champions of the 2007 Cricket World Cup, their third in a row.
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Is it April or August?
Not only have we been experiencing summer like weather the past couple of weeks (Met office reports it to be the hottest April on record) but we’ve had a number of news stories more suited to the summer months when we get a slew of unusual stories on slow news days.
Some enterprising company has been conning thousands of wealthy Japanese ladies into believing lambs were valuable miniature poodles.
The bizarre scam was rumbled when Japanese movie star Maiko Kawakami complained on a talk show that her new poodle refused to bark or eat dog food.
She showed photos of the animal and was devastated when told that it was a lamb.
And a schoolteacher from Haverfordwest was tricked into having sex with a Syrian-born airline pilot who told her that he could cure a rash that she had through the method of administering it vaginally on the end of his penis.
The teacher put up with the treatment for nine months before telling her doctor.
Two very bewildering stories.
I was visiting Roundway Hill which is near my home today to take photos and was surprised to see far more people there than usual.
Apparently there is a very impressive crop circle on Oliver’s Castle that everyone but me knew all about. Not so impressive from the ground it is quite amazing from above.
Image Steve Alexander Copyright 2007
Other photos of the Oliver’s Castle crop circle available here.
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This is Mushroom Kingdom
This has to be just about the best parody of the movie 300 that I’ve seen so far.
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Kotaku disects Jack’s lies
In the wake of the massacre at Virginia Tech many so called experts such as Dr. Phil stepped forward linking the killings with the playing of violent video games before the authorities had even released any details about the perpetrator of this atrocity.
As you might expect Jack Thompson was amongst these yet again exploiting tragedy to push his agenda. The gaming site Kotaku have an excellent article analysing Thompson’s televised statement and dissecting the lies contained within it.
Ars Technica have a similar article about the media’s knee jerk reaction of linking the shootings to video games before the facts are in.
In fact according to GayGamer.net not only did the police not find any games amongst Cho Seun Hui’s belongings but his roommate says that he’d never ever seen Cho play a video game.