it’s cute.

The ‘real-world’ portions are a little grating but it’s still a cute tale. Watch with your little niece or nephew or something.

And who would have thought Luc Besson would do this? And Harvey Keitel, Madonna, David Bowie, Mia Farrow? Robert de freaking Niro? (for the English version, obviously)

I would have loved to see the French version with subs but it was not to be.

I watched this as part of my ‘must watch every CGI movie ever’ quest (I even got a list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer-animated_films ) and I am not disappointed.

Whoa. I mean, whoa.

I just spend my first few hours on Prime 3. It is amazing. Can’t talk, must play.

From the waves of unintentional (and intentional) antisocial behavior, the awkwardness, and the countless in-jokes (watch Chris O’Dowd’s shirts closely), everything about this series screams ‘underground hit’. The second season is airing now and is just as fantastic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_it_crowd#Cultural_references

The DVD start-up sequence and subsequent menus are designed to resemble a ZX Spectrum game, even to the extent that the loading sequence features the famous striped border. Games similar to Jet Set Willy and Head Over Heels play while menu choices are made; characters are replaced with representations of the characters in the TV show. Also included on the DVD are subtitles in leet. The leet subtitles, for the first episode, are not a direct translation of the show and include many references to geek culture that were not included in the original episode. The second episode has the subtitles ROT13 encoded, episode three has all the words in the subtitles sorted in alphabetical order, episode four has the text base64 encoded and the last two episodes are direct leet translations.

Lovely. Apparently, like The office, it will also be remade for the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_IT_Crowd_%28US_TV_series%29

And I love René Laloux’s bizarre animation.

I think a lot of people went in with extremely high expectations. I expected a long Simpsons episode with a large budget and that is exactly what I got. I am a happy man.

I hadn’t read anything by Steele before, and I only just now realised that this is a book in a series of sorts. Still, this is perfectly readable as a standalone book as it is more or less self-contained. The relationship between Earth and the colony on Coyote is worked out in the other books but is not the central theme of this one. This is a first contact story, with some well timed chronological jumps and shifts back and forth (each chapter lists exact date and location). It is a good read, well-written and engaging.

Still, with all the wild post-singularity stuff I have been reading lately its, well, a bit tame like I said.

50 minutes of boring bimbos followed by an hour of flying body parts and car crashes. There were some extremely vivid scenes, and some very gruesome ones. Overall, a forgettable movie despite the shock value.

A gruesome tale well told with overpowering visuals ranging from the sensual and sublime to the downright nasty and dirty. I wonder how the American public with its squeamishness about nudity will react to the ending. I’m sure the serial killer aspect won’t bother them. Anyway, an original movie based on a original book. Well worth watching. The voice-over was a trifle marring and overbearing at times.

It takes Stross a while to set up all the pieces, and suddenly it all clicks. And runs you for a couple of loops, some breaknext turns and a heart-stopping end.

The now-familiar stomping grounds of Charles featuring a post-humanity species that has spread out among the stars using wormhole gates to travel from one place to the other is hit hard by a technological worm that attacks the very gates themselves and installs and runs illegal code on human hosts passing through it, redacting memories and altering behavior. The book is set in the aftermath of “The Censorship Wars” caused by this worm which is called “Curious Yellow” in a nod to Jeff Noon’s Vurt.

While the “hero with amnesia” bit must be one of the most played-out in the world of literary tricks, Stross manages to make an asset out of it. No mean feat by itself.

It was dark and witty and insane.