Entries from February 2012

Friday, February 10th, 2012

Requiem for a Dream (in 60 secs…with Puppets)

Fake Film Fest looks like a blast! One of the most harrowing movies ever made is so ripe for a remake with puppets, it’s surprising that no one did it before with Kermit and Miss Piggy as the heroin couple fighting their addiction as their world around them turns into a paranoid hell. But now [...]

Thursday, February 9th, 2012

Michio Kaku: String Theory Is The Only Game In Town

Had your morning coffee? You might need to add a morning doobie to that routine and then you’ll be much more suited to inhaling this video into your brain. Where Dr. Michio Kaku discusses the most famous elementary particle in the world, the Higgs boson. If we don’t find it then the standard model, which [...]

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

The Flip Side (Bar)

This will definitely make you think. Down a dark alley on the wrong side of the street, behind a door that looks like a window into the depths of mind there’s a bar that languishes on the edge of our reality. And in this bar things are a little different to what we’re all used [...]

Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

Re-killing Bin Laden: ‘OSOMBIE’

Now you have to admit that this looks dead-good, eh? If ever you wanted proof that you can’t keep a good man down (or a dead evil one), here it is. Osombie is an independently-produced, feature-length zombie film, packed with violence, mayhem, guns, blood and discussions about Pokemon. Oh, and zombies. Lots of zombies. We [...]

Monday, February 6th, 2012

The Dark Room

WARNING: This is likely to induce bouts of insanity! The plot: You awake in a dark room and some disembodied head starts shouting at you about waking in a dark room and finding a light switch. What do you do? Why you start playing this interactive YouTube vid where you can point and click your [...]

Monday, February 6th, 2012

The Best of Liam Neeson

Release the LIAM! Mr Neeson is a man who doesn’t immediately look like he would snap your fingers back before crushing your soul with his teeth and laying waste to you entire ancestry, but he will, if provoked. And if you were in any doubt then look at him in this compilation, opening cans of [...]

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

‘I Fink U Freeky’ by Die Antwoord

Those South African weirdoes are back with a typically strange video that will probably haunt your dreams and have you waking for the rest of your life – cold and frightened, in the middle of the night – And there’s a lot of swearing in it too, but that can only be a good thing. [...]

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

30 Renowned Writers Speaking About God

From Sir Arthur C. Clarke to Terry Pratchett and Theodore Dalrymple (whoever the hell he is), some eggheads muse over God and what it all means and whether faith and reason can live together in unity. Or if whether believing in an unproven omnipotent being means you’re revolting against reason and morals and you worship [...]

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

Fail compilation January 2012

Here it is, the first fail compilation of the year and, as is fitting, it starts with some fireworks going wrong. Then it’s the usual bunch of addictive viewing as people headbutt walls, do the classic skateboard trick: the nustshot, and generally make a mockery of us all. If you thought had a bad January, [...]

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

Nano Quadrotor Swarm

Experiments performed with a team of nano quadrotors at the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania. If Cyberdyne Systems is going to appear anywhere, my money is on Pennsylvania. These cheeky little bots have been taught to fly in various formations and switch between those formations in three dimensions. It’s just a matter of time before [...]

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

Ed Sheeran – Drunk

Meet Ed Sheeran, he’s ginger but do let that put you off. Here he is, trying to get over his ex-girlfriend and forgetting the pain by getting drunk with a cat and let this be a lesson to cat owners everywhere: never let your cat get drunk because they are a mean drunk. A few [...]