“It was all going well and then you mucked it up. Trust a geologist!” Excerpt from the new series of Rough Science in which our host Kate Humble shows consternation at the new boy geologist getting the wrong kind of rocks to make Plaster […]

Load “” Screen$
Waiting the three long minutes for a 16K Spectrum to load from tape was relieved by the loading screen. For the longer games (there is no real ZX Spectrum worthy of the name larger than 48K) there had better be an interest[…]

Five Thoughts About The Last Samurai: 5
Premise no.1: Battles are chaotic places
Premise no.2: Chaos is by its very nature unstructured
Conclusion: As long as you jerk the camera, constantly change the p.ov., put lots of gruesome special effects on t[…]

Five Thoughts About The Last Samurai: 4
I know villains are suppose to twirl their moustaches, but surely it is too much of a signal to the audience to have a villain whose moustache comes pre-twirled?[…]

Five Thoughts About The Last Samurai: 3
Fans of Liquid Swords by the GZA/Genius will thrill at the moment when the Emporor sends his ninja spies to the Samurai village to kill everybody. Unfortunately fans of decent martial arts movies will note th[…]

Five Thoughts About The Last Samurai: 2
The totality of Tom Cruise’s characters involvement in the politics of the Japanese situation seems to be, these people seem quite nice and are a bit like the savage Indians wot I killed lotsin the States[…]

Five Thoughts About The Last Samurai: 1
How much fun is it to watch Tom Cruise get tthe snot beat out of him with a stick. In the rain.
Answer: Lots and lots. Unfortunately it only happens once.[…]

Visitors to Barcelona often find that the works of Mr Gaud’ are overshadowed, nay, pummelled into submission by the pleasures of Voll-Damm, the super-strong local lager whose premises loom into view as soon as the airport bus begins its slow tr[…]

I LOVE YOU, YOU BIG DUMMY
Val’rie Belin’s photographs often seem to be about death, such as the empty dresses in coffin-like boxes, Miss Haversham’s ghost gone AWOL. But what if death is replaced with a simple lack of life? The unti[…]

I always thought that there was no upper bound to the amount of wine you could add to a risotto when cooking. After all, it is pretty essential that it be there in the first place, so why should there be a maximum. Well, last night i glugged a wee bi[…]