Reading time: < 1 min Have you heard? I just read it on the BBC News website? Really? Yahoo says it won’t happen? Noooo! Well Ananova says it has a confirmed source? Reuters reported it this morning…. The news headlines zip across the screen, constantly changing, constantly being revised, and you watch the news shape and form into coherent stories…
Reading time: < 1 min You do read the wonderful dooce: the softer side of cyncial, don’t you? You don’t? Head over there at once, pausing only to swallow that mouthful of tea, lest you inadvertantly spray your keyboard, your monitor and an unsuspecting (if not completely undeserving) colleague. ‘Tis funny. VERY funny. With a capital F.
Reading time: < 1 min I was mostly listening to: Mylo – Destroy Rock ‘n’ Roll. And very good it was too, highly recommended. Mind you, it took me about four minutes to remember the sample used in track 5. ‘Twas Kim Carnes, I think..
Reading time: < 1 min “Did you know” she casually mentioned, “that we’ve now known each other for 15 years.” I paused, considered the information (checked my maths) and replied:“That means we have known each other for more than half our lives now. Wow.” “Yeah… wow” she smiled.
Reading time: < 1 min Just back from watching I, Robot. It’s a blockbuster Hollywood movie. What can I say? Effects are startlingly convincing to the point I almost forgot ‘Sonny’ didn’t exist. Will Smith is a bit more subdued, think he was trying for moody but came off as bored, and well.. that’s about it. A good diversion for…
Reading time: < 1 min I, Robot Isaac Asimov meet Hollywood. Hollywood meet Isaac Asimov.. ohh HOW rude!! Will Smith in yet another big blockbuster movie, ohh and he gets his bum out in this one. Ohh yeah, the story.. robots good, man bad.. robots might be bad, man good?.. robots .. man.. look, go read the book the film…