Just to prove that film and TV are better than science, our sister blog Proven By Science has been taken over by Do You See related topics. First Alan tells us of the fantastic new Look Around You DVD, whilst I get radical with the 1913 leaps in scie[…]

Look Around You‘s Periodic Table [ed: updated link]
Only feeling a bit miffed, cos I did something like this some years ago myself. When you find yourself bored editing a science textbook, have access to Adobe Illustrator and an EPS of the peri[…]

APPLE CRISPS! These I believe have long been the staple of health food shops, but yesterday one of our supplies gave me a pack for potentially stocking in our shop. They are odd no mistake. Less, erm, crisp than a potato crisp, yes definately giving […]

Inspired by tipsiness and a number of ILE threads I took advantage of Fopp’s ‘SF Masterworks’ remainder sale and snapped up a few sci-fi novels. The first of these, THE STARS MY DESTINATION by Alfred Bester, I wolfed down overnight.[…]

Necessity is apparently the mother of invention. This might make films and science fiction the father. This struck me most evidently the other day when watching the 1913 movie Traffic In Souls. Despite the IMDB calling it primitive, there are plenty […]

Uh oh – damning a comedy by faint praise corner again. That can only mean the Coen Brothers or the Farrell Brothers have a movie out. It is the former, with their – gasp – first film from a second hand script. Wot they rewrote. And […]

This morning: sign spotted in local greasy:
KNIVES AND FORKS ARE NOT TONICS! PLEASE DO NOT TAKE THEM AFTER YOUR MEAL!
Also – cup of tea in being 35 English Pence shocker! I have got too used to standing in Starbucks getting confused after order[…]

LIL JON & THE EASTSIDE BOYS – “Get Low”
What a strange little transubstantiation that has occured when “C’mon and Ride It (The Train)” slowed down to 16rpm and fronted by the Frogtown Hollow Community Choir is[…]

Okay. It’s a bit non-committal as a word. It is not exactly a superlative. The Danish film of the same name can also be pegged in a similar way. It is pretty bog standard family soap opera stuff. Nete is the busybody mother character who has a[…]

SEEN ON THE INTERWEB:
“The thing about seagulls exploding being unable to vent CO2 is not an urban myth, because I’ve seen it. If you give them bread with lots of bicarb on, they fly away, go wobbly, then wetly burst.”
Playground La[…]