archive for May, 2007

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

Movies & TV,Reviews Sunday 27th May 2007

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  • Very surreal scenes in the “locker”, a lot more so than I was expecting
  • Faultless CGI, as you would expect from ILM
  • Keira’s hair seems to change every other scene
  • Keith Richard’s cameo is entertaining and not overly gratuitous
  • Initially the plot is a bit all over the shop but it comes together in the end
  • Good usage of Sea Turtles
  • Chow Yun-Fat is nicely menacing as the pirate king from Singapore
  • You get to see Bill Nighy minus CGI!
  • So Jack really is mad…
My Rating: gold stargold stargold stargold stargrey star
 

Happy Birthday Star Wars!

Movies & TV Saturday 26th May 2007

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In related news, I really want one of these:
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Art of War

Design Wednesday 23rd May 2007

The UK National Archives currently have a very nice online exhibition on the Art of War. It has quite a range of materials and includes decent sized quality images as well as ‘zoomable’ versions. All quite competently assembled! It also has a good range of the “comic” style art which would probably get called “pop art” these days. They remind me of Lichtenstein’s Whaam! which is hanging right over my desk as I type this.

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Via Joe at the Forbidden Planet Blog.

 

One Laptop Per Child

Technology Wednesday 23rd May 2007

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Good article about the One Laptop Per Child project over on SvN.

 

Charlie’s Diary: Shaping the future

Links Monday 14th May 2007

Interesting essay from Mr Stross: Charlie’s Diary: Shaping the future

 

UK 1:6th Collectors Club

Links Monday 14th May 2007

Amazing photos from a 1:6th diorama of German WW2 troops marshalling alongside a steam engine

 

Web Standards

Book Blog Tuesday 8th May 2007
 

Gone Fishin’

Book Blog Tuesday 8th May 2007
 

Spiderman 3

Movies & TV,Reviews Saturday 5th May 2007
  • Slightly too many bad-guys.
  • An even better Bruce Campbell cameo than the first two films. His French accent had Kerry in stitches.
  • The plot isn’t as smooth as the first two, it was like they were trying to cram loads of “cool stuff” into the last one in the trilogy.
  • Excellent sandman “sand” CGI.
  • Emo spiderman!
My Rating: gold stargold stargold stargold stargrey star
 

xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe

Links Wednesday 2nd May 2007

xkcd gets funnier and funnier, here is a Tolkien-esque map of interweb communities

 

The real Computer Monster

Links Wednesday 2nd May 2007

YouTube – The real Computer Monster