China is heaving a collective sigh of relief today* as it appears that the Great Wall Of China can be seen with the naked eye from space after all. Of course when they say naked eye, they mean an eye behind at least one inch of reinforced plastiglass[…]

Unfair title. Sorry. Sahara is great. Well the last hour is when the fights happen and things blow up. Yes, it is silly but as action movies go, you have a few heroes who sepnd most of the film being implacable and enjoying the adventure. Death of th[…]

http://www.robotsonstrike.com/motion/ROSnebraskaqt.html
robots on strike has made a short video, with a small ambient soundtrack, black and white, blury scenes of nebraska, hand wound and sped up–sounds almost dull and horribly prententiuos, bu[…]

New Brazilian 17-year old wizard Kerlon has invented* a new trick. He balances the ball on his head and runs with it. Any attempt to kick it off will be dangerous play, seeing how you’re aiming to kick him around the head. A shoulder charge wou[…]

Ananova, the kings of making a story out of half an idea, reports on the Most Realistic Sex Robots yet! Even a cursory read brings up some disturbing issues. Most clearly the fact that these robots have hearts and breathe like real people. During sex[…]

Namely, this is a wonderful neo-colonialist film which likes to stress the role of the UN in mediating world affairs, whilst acknowledging that the reality all boils down to a couple of white Americans making choices. Sean Penn is a white New York co[…]

Arsenal Ladies v Djurg’rden/’lvsj’, UEFA Women’s Cup, Boreham(space)wood FC
There were a whole world of firsts for me at Boreham(space)wood* on Friday, here they are in some sort of numerical order:
1. First women’s foot[…]

Unless the search is failing me, I haven’t reviewed anything by him here before. He’s a writer I love, another of that breed of crime writers who isn’t up to much if what you want is a mystery with clues that you can try to solve al[…]

Warning: explicit content. In case the title wasn’t a clue.
I saw an ad for a Channel 5 show about plastic surgery the other day, and it seemed to think it was a surprise revelation that big breasts are popular in porn. I know that we aren&#821[…]

I was reading Revolution in the Head, and the writer told me that the song You?ve Got to Hide your Love Away had no queer content at all?and I always thot it was the most queer song in pop before the rainbow broke ca 1970, reading the lyrics again an[…]