DreamWeaver

...miiiight have had a tiny sob at that ending. Forgot that timetravellers can remember all possible time streams too...

HuffPost UK/Reuters:Chinese theme park builds real-life Angry Birds game
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011..._n_951721.html

(Note that you're actually only firing stuffed versions, not actual birds, nothing is harmed except human dignity.)

That said - if you got this weekend's £120m Euro jackpot or knew a John Hammond figure...
if you could play a real-life version of any video or tabletop RPG game, what would it be?

Astronomy fans - supernova nearby...
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nati...-25-years.html

This should be visible for the next few nights - with the naked eye if you live somewhere clear of light pollution, with binoculars if you're in the city. Find the Plough, follow its "handle" and look just above and to the left to the Pinwheel (M101).

If you've got a decent telescope, you'll be able to see how it's lighting up its home cluster - and the tiny Vogon fleet a little bit closer than that.

Also, can I recommend http://www.universetoday.com/ - great SCIENCE news (bloody awful blog design, but hey).

Creepy dolls and clowns get me every time - Gatiss, you swine.

But - and I should say...



.I think he could have done better than raiding classic Twilight Zone eps...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_a_...Twilight_Zone)

Definitely counting this one as a WIN. Did she say yes?

...spoilers.. <3

It does at least include Rickman, Depp, Lee Jones and Stewart...

...but no HARRISON FORD??? SERIOUSLY?

...I just wanted them to cut back at the end of the episode to the cupboard doors...

..."Hallo? Wo ist everybody? BITTE???"

As I accidentally started another thread to say...

...anyone thinking Firefly: The Animated Series for this? More than a hint of Capn' Mal and Jayne in the two male leads. And a less-serious space MMO is something I've been hankering after for a while...

Related news: Sharon Osbourne seen buying shares in Virgin Galactic. :P

Arthur C got an awful lot more right in his life, including comm sats and the missing neutrino theory (though vacuum energy seems to be a lot closer, thankfully, than the 3000ish deadline posted in my current read Songs of Distant Earth... and when do we get Quantum Drive?)

NCSoft to bring us freeform Firefly funventuring in the psychedelic toon style of WoW,with the Inara role played by busty bunnygirls.

Yeah, I'm in.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...ldstar-preview

A new thread celebrating those who may take their obsession just that little bit too far.

So... what say you to this?

Am I the only person here who LOVES 1941 (particularly the John Williams score) with a passion that will not die??

By a curious coincidence, Batman Forever is now on ITV2 as I write this. On the face of it, you've got Tommy Lee Jones, whose awesomeness may not be questioned..


You also have Jim Carrey, who was at the time a very hot property in Hollywood. Nicole Kidman. Chris O'Donnell, who'd just come off the rather lovely Circle of Friends. And Val Kilmer, who was... a nutjob. In fact, described by Joel Silver as "the most psychologically damaged human being ever to walk on a film set". But actually got the best reviews, oddly enough.

So you have an epic budget, Joel Schumacher - more than competent to direct as evidenced by "Lost Boys" and the Grisham movies...

...and one of the worst scripts ever committed to computer memory. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Akiva Goldsman, writer of not just Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, but Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, Lost In Space, Poseidon, Hancock and Deep Blue Sea. A track record of devastation through the 90s and 00s.

Actors can do a lot with the lines they have to speak. Alec Guinness managed to put so much gravitas into Lucas's lacklustre lines that millions believed in the Force. But... there are some scripts that should have never got to casting, let alone not been laughed out of a pitch meeting.

I tend to go for "lovable rogue" types for Villains, who will invariably have nice shiny stuff - cars, clothing, gear - because being bad, for them, is all about fun. Where their idea of fun usually stops is mass murder (which also makes cleaning that nice new slinky burgling outfit all kinds of hell) or where doing good becomes more fun/profitable.

So they'll often end up on the side of good, getting more credit than the workaday-Joe Heroes whose actual job it is to save the day, and looking hotter as well.

It's kinda having your cake and eating it, true... well, somebody's cake. It was just lying there looking all sorta delicious. Think they'll mind?

I completely misjudged what the "module" was for, and had to console a terrified and blubbering galpal. Haaaarrrrrssshh...

Incidentally, anyone driving the 405 through LA, look out for the WHOLE-BUILDING ad takeover by Starz. A 250-foot Jack is a distinct improvement to the skyline :P

BTW,since the last time this thread popped up, I have read the greatest book in the world. Ever. One that should be worshipped through all time...



...because he'll probably still be gigging when we're all gone.

Seriously, any book that starts with the Stones being busted for possession in a backwoods town, but their redneck judge is late - having popped over to the off licence for a quarter of red-eye, and then promptly arrested by his own sheriff for being too drunk to preside?

Gettin' my Dresden fix: Ghost Story and Side Jobs by Jim Butcher.

On order: Adventures In The Screen Trade by Bill Goldman (author of Princess Bride)

Someone's been watching a lot of Torchwood. Mind you, fitting new batteries would be a bit of a pain...

145: The Iron Chicken from The Clangers... http://youtu.be/wfsMZKwqw3w

I saw what they did to Harley.



*pulls on red-and-white-boots,picks up massive hammer and sack of exploding wind-up teeth and sets off for DC offices humming a jauntily murderous tune*

Still haven't watched more than one episode of Nu-BSG. Which is apparently bad, as the geeks in my new office confirm common agreement with "So Say We All" in unison.