Archive for April, 2008

NetDisaster - now this was funny

Visit www.netdisaster.com and much hilarity doth ensue.
You type in the url of a web site, pick a disaster and then some totally splendid flash animation ‘Disasterises’ (my word, not theirs, can I ‘tm’ that?) the site for you.
I thought about making a video, but no need.

How to be insulted online by face recognition software and what to do about it

Has everyone used MyHeritage.com ? You get to upload a photo can then they compare your details with a bunch of ‘celebrities’ and come back with list designed to insult you. At least that happened to me!
You go to the site, click on Face Recognition, and then Celebrity Collage upload a photo - marvel as […]

Novels mentioned in Passing but not recommended: DeadBeat, The Somnambulist, The end of Mr Y

I had high hopes for all these books. But sadly none of them worked out for me - lucky old charity shop.
Dead Beat by Jim Butcher forms part of the "Dresden Files" cannon - a splendid TV show if you ignore the Pilot episode. For the longest time reading the novel I thought I might […]

Book Review: Ripley Under Water by Patricia Highsmith

I read the first 3 Ripley books in a compendium form. And at the time I assumed that Patricia Highsmith had written only 3 Ripley books - since the blurb on the back said "collecting the Ripley novels under one cover". And then I stumbled across "Ripley Under Water" and then in the ‘also […]

Night Watch, Day Watch

I just watched Day Watch on DVD - the sequel to Night Watch.
I really enjoyed it - either a massive budget increase since the first film or special effects have really come down in price.
Night Watch seemed to have a well used and  relatively low budget. The story of a young man, framed into […]

Book Review: Atlas Shrugged

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I do not normally read books as long as this. And this book has well over 1000 pages of small text. I bought it after reading The Fountainhead ([amazon.com][amazon.co.uk]) and then every time I opened Atlas Shrugged I was put off by its length.
Eventually I got around to reading it and the first 500 pages […]