Monthly Archives: July 2008

True Tales from Darwin: Disk Discombobulation*

With the price of Hard disks falling rapidly, and one of the old 128gb disks in my pc starting to sound like a blender full of broken glass, I decided to drop some hard earned dough on a new HDD. … Continue reading

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Quote of the Day

On the Olymics: The Games are a safely contained off-leash area for the wild dogs of nationalism. John Birmingham in his Olympics blog/column/yarn. Just why is it that the most rabid flag wavers are the ones who’ve never left the … Continue reading

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Watchmen movie looks like it might not suck

The first trailer for Watchmen is out and despite the fact that it features Billy Corgan it looks pretty okay. Due to it’s depth, complexity, subject matter and density, Watchmen was always going to be a hard movie to make … Continue reading

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Black Thor

I’m a bit Thor-centric these days for some reason…

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Thor: God of Metal

Inspired by this.

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Insanity, Territory Style

Territory style insanity is wilder than your every day insanity. This is partially because up here the Government is just as balls out crazy as their constituents [if not crazier]. One example would be the Chief Minister being involved in … Continue reading

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