Constantine
This film IS half bad. The second half. Actually the first half isn’t great either. There are some great comic-book visuals (though come on, the slow-down/speed-up thing is tired for everyone now isn’t it?), and for a short wh[…]

Rediscovered thanks to Jess’s article which pointed me at web.archive.org. My old website from the 90s had a lot of crap on it, and it is embarassing to discover it still out there in the internet, when i thought it had all been lost in my move[…]

Boring admin post for all the regular posters on FT: we’re starting to use titles! Currently it’s only Blog 7, but when the blogs are tweaked to match the front page a bit better, we will probably turn on titles on all the blogs. To help […]

Heavens, i kill IE with guns pt yada yada yada
Thanks to this blog for letting me google a long-standing bug in the appearance of FT on IE.
“Combining the border-left or border-right parameter with a padding-top or padding-bottom parameter, and[…]

neoteny n. The retention of juvenile characteristics in the adults of a species
Such as being amused by nob gags? I suspect not. The film Team America: World Police is packed with juvenile humour – it appealled only to the base, the vulgar, tho[…]

Leaked TV alert
According to b3ta‘s blog, the first episode of the new Dr Who has leaked onto BitTorrent already. I can’t find any supporting blogging or actual evidence (not while I’m at work), but they are usually reliable on this[…]

PSBs and Alcazar
This may be old news to the future-shock accelerated world of music blogs (“Hear songs before the artists have written them!”), but looking for news of the next Alcazar album reveals that there’s another PSB collabo[…]

In February 2005, Blog 7 was all about L.O.V.E. love.[…]

The Long Arm of Jude Law
Apropos of nothing, this is the winner of my own private “Commission a new strip for Viz” competition. Not quite up to snuff were Asher D: Maitre d’ and My Mate Billy. AD:MD was a bit out of date with its su[…]

Last week I was slightly concerned that Channel 4’s lovely Popworld* was “on the turn” (as Simon’s parents might have put it). They started out by apologising for their title sequence containing Busted, Mystiq and S-Club, befo[…]