After two rather depressing posts, I wanted to post something lighter. I found it in the form of Angryalien.com, a website where famous films are compressed into thirty-second animations featuring a cast of bunnies. It’s not quite clear why it works as a concept, but it does.
I’ve just seen the most wonderful anti-statistic: 99.9% of humans have more than the average number of arms.
Everyone has a bad day, and so do science-fiction writers. The Telegraph has collected some of the worst bits of the genre on screen, leading off with something that has always troubled me: 1: Star Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi: “If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine…” No you [...]
There was a long-running series of advertisements when I was younger featuring a couple who met and shared a love of instant coffee (Nescafe in the UK, Taster’s Choice in the US). But whereas these old (and very British) advertisements mixed coffee and romance with the subtlety of, let’s say, a sledge-hammer cracking a nut, [...]
A man has managed to get an ID Card dressed as “The Joker”. Priceless.
Stephen Colbert on children: I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Children are here to replace us, and if we don’t do something about it, they will.
There are those in America who believe that reading Harry Potter will set their children on a path that leads to eternal damnation. This from the nation that also brought you people who believe that a road named ‘Route 666′ was incompatible with righteous nationhood.
I didn’t know that The Darwin Awards were still running. But apparently, brave souls are still documenting human evolution in action.
If you live life in the public eye, it’s best not to be rude to Telegraph journalists – especially those with Blogs.
Now I am a great fan, and user, of wacky and wonderful vehicles. But as JC himself says, the Carver could only have come from a country where drugs are legal. The Top Gear review is now on Youtube. It is mad, impracticable, and solves no problems that have not been solved by other vehicles. [...]