censorship...

....?

Lately I've been noticing that when I click on an unfolding news story on the bbc twitter feed, about 33% of links link back to the bbc's homepage.

This is strange because since I've been on twitter (only about 6 months) the bbc twitter feed has been 100% accurate and now all of a sudden I have to dig through the homepage to find the article I was interested in reading (I know that sounds lazy, but isn't that what twitter was invented for?).

hmmmm....anybody actually know what happened near Tuscon today?

die hard, YEAH!

Every crazy plot begins with just one man http://io9.com/5838255/

That's pretty obvious...if he had asked for suggestions perhaps nobody would have gotten killed.  But what makes you want to watch is the crazy plan.

for example:



And I thought Face/Off was the most ridiculous movie out there that I could love.  But Crank gives us the bridge from reality (ha! like die hard is reality, right?) to comic book superheroes.  Think about it...Crank's protagonist is a seemingly normal human being that was injected with a slow acting poison which slows down your heart until it stops.  The only way to slow down this already slowed down process is to pump himself full of adrenaline...

...which then enabled him to survive an over 600 metre fall.

now I ask you...how can you not want to watch this movie?  It's gotta be good for at least one memorable line (along the lines of one of my all time faves "you just killed a helicopter with a car!"

jar jar har har

The other day I was watching my friend's kids – two boys, one 8 the other 5…and I had so much fun!  It had been a month since I had watched them because they’ve been on vacation for most of August.  As soon as I walked into the house I noticed the gigantic, completely-made-of-Lego-with-moving-parts DEATH STAR!  It even had an elevator!  We then played boats in the little pool, created an aquatic environment in order to house various toys (including Dory from Finding Nemo), built houses of cards, played the Pyramid of Lego game, whined about wanting to play Indiana Jones on the Wii and finally played Star Wars: The Complete Saga – a Lego video game.  The only negative was seeing that moron Jar Jar Binks in the game.  There was a scene where Jar Jar was about to get run over in spectacular fashion by a death star tank but then one of the boys jumped in and saved him.  And it got me thinking “Could Jar Jar actually be tolerable in other languages"?  After taking a poll, I came to this conclusion: no, Jar Jar always induces homicidal feelings and yes, kids are kind of stupid.

On the bright side the Lego version of the Death Star is good for hours of fun.


Update: upon re-seeing this post a week later I realize that the above pic.....sucks ass.


let's see if this is any better:


no...you know, there are no pictures that would render it justice.  you just gotta play with one.