Gulf War: Critics v Consumers

Transformers 2 is killing it at the box office and being killed by the critics.

“After just five days, “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” is halfway to $400 million domestically, a box-office milestone only eight other movies have reached. If it climbs that high, the “Transformers” sequel will be by far the worst-reviewed movie ever to make the $400 million club.

Critics and mainstream crowds often disagree, but “Revenge of the Fallen” sets a new standard for the gulf between what reviewers and mass audiences like. “

Yeah, cop that critics… you suck.

June 30, 2009

YouTube Twosday: Legolibrium

Equilibrium is a good movie. If you like badly adapted dystopian fusions of 1984 and the Matrix. Which I do. So it’s awesome that this guy has created lego versions of scenes from the movie…

June 30, 2009

YouTube Tuesday: Lego of the past

Ahh Lego and Super Mario Bros, and Lego and Pacman… Gold.

Pacman arrives about a minute in to this one…

June 30, 2009

Grammar Nazis and homophones

Yeah. Take that you “your/you’re”, “its/it’s” and “there/their/they’re” grammar nazis.

Everybody makes mistakes. Especially with homophones. Maybe words that are homophones should have little pink triangles inserted into the spelling. That’d keep you Nazis happy. Wouldn’t it. Anyone who dares to write things online should be sent to “concentration” camp…

June 30, 2009

Good news

Good news people. If all goes according to plan I stand to receive $45 million in coming weeks. No, I haven’t bought a ticket in the record lottery draw – I have received correspondence from friends in Ghana, China and Scotland – all offering me $15 million for participating in transactions of various legality.

I will update you with my progress accordingly.

June 30, 2009

A bunch of links – June 29, 2009

June 29, 2009

Coffee table cartography

If you’ve got a favourite piece of the world you want immortalised in coffee table form in your living room then this is for you. It will take the cartographic features of any place on the planet and turn it into a uniquely customised piece of furniture.

There are heaps of other customisable products from the same company.

June 29, 2009

How Tetris Works

Producing piece after piece of blocked awesomeness is no mean feat – ever wondered where those Tetris blocks come from… well now you know…

TETRIS CF #1 from WooDUS on Vimeo.

Found here.

June 29, 2009

Noted aggression

This is the most awesome Flickr collection ever. Well, at least for today. A collection of “passive aggressive notes” left on public noticeboards.

Some of my favourites…



June 29, 2009

Questions from answers

No, this isn’t a post about Jeopardy. Have you ever seen a billboard that just didn’t make sense? Have you ever seen one of those billboards that came from a Christian organisation? Well, here’s one. So now you can answer “yes” to both those questions… It makes no sense to me at all – perhaps you can explain it to me.

Answers in Genesis even made this into a video advert on YouTube. I think they’re suggesting that if you’re not a Christian you’re likely to shoot people because you don’t really care about them – or that people who don’t believe in God are more likely to shoot you because they don’t care about you.

It’s just odd and pretty screwy. Though I’d expect that from these guys. They’re Christianity’s Richard Dawkins.

June 29, 2009

Ninja turtle

One of our pet turtles has a severe case of ninjavitis. He thinks he’s a ninja. I won’t show him this photo…

Found here.

June 29, 2009

Cake cartography

It’s been a while since the last geeky cake post. So here you go. A Mario Cart cake. From Flickr.

June 29, 2009

There’s a “backfire” pun here somewhere

Malcolm Turnbull’s tenacious UteGate attacks were a serious miscalculation. It seems that it’s not a case of the public “not caring” about the issue – but rather caring that they had to continue putting up with an issue that nobody but Turnbull cared about.

He’s now a less popular leader than Costello (who has announced his retirement) and Joe Hockey. As usual, Peter Hartcher’s SMH analysis is worth a read.

June 29, 2009

Stumped

Sometimes people manage to find a superb silver lining to situations I can’t imagine dealing with. Like turning a lost arm into this…

From here – but there are some more disturbing images there… so be warned.

June 29, 2009

Home Alone

Robyn’s on the farm until Wednesday with her folks. I’m home alone. I have set booby traps accordingly. Those wet bandits aren’t going to catch me unawares.

I am “celebrating” by staying up late, drinking beer, eating fast food for my meals and hopefully playing some computer games tomorrow… and I’m blogging, obviously.

June 28, 2009