It won stuff at Cannes, is tremendously over the top and violent and yet the film that Oldboy reminded me of the most was Amélie. Not just because it employs a visual toolbox which encompasses state of the art digital trickery along with some wonder[…]

FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARIEST THINGS
2: Being Sober For The Rest Of Your Life
Uh-oh. Check your hat in as you wander into Alcoholics Anonymous and sit in the corner watching the other boozer, losers and vodka users tell their litany of horrors. Sure[…]

Three days before the US Presidential election, the day after Osama Bin Laden released a new tape aimed at the American people with potentially huge polling consequences, the front page of the Daily Mail screams ‘VILLAGES HELD TO RANSOM’.[…]

Miss Teak
Stuff Ingenuity and Culture in Contemporary Danish Crafts.
This was the York Quay’s offing for the SuperDanish festival, held in the Harbourfront center of Toronto would have been perfect, an examination of northern culture and how it[…]

Javascript on Freakytrigger’s Front Page
I just want to flag up that i’m concerned that the front page isn’t very “low tech”. It’s mostly javascript to dynamically update the lists of blog items and (recently) essa[…]

WE WON!!
i think i blogged before abt how the real secret deep winner of the election in four days time will be watchumcall non-mainstream modes of journalism: here a smart old-schooler eloqently concedes defeat on exactly this issue
(the pervasive[…]

Rational yet Irrational. Part 1 – Eric S Raymond
I don’t think we’ve ever blogged a link to madman Eric S Raymond’s Armed and Dangerous blog – so drink up, it’s bonkers stuff. Eric was the author of the famous The […]

FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARIEST THINGS
4. Castration
Oh, bollocks.
It is probably fairly clear at this point that the fear list jury was made up mostly of men. Freud would have been proud of this entry, which perhaps deserves to be taken psychological[…]

When you’re in a hole…
keep digging.[…]

PCGMWatch: October
A DUP councillor in Northern Ireland who subjected a colleague to a campaign of homophobic abuse and got successfully prosecuted for it. “On one occasion Templeton bent over in front of [victim], patted his backside and said,[…]