Sorry, it wasn't Natalie Portman being photographed topless on a beach by paparazzi, or being cast in V for Vendetta, or shaving her head, but this segment from a recent Saturday Night Live which makes me think "hey, Natalie Portman, not a kid anymore" ... Cheers to NBC for letting a kosher version finally become […]
Here's a neat trick for anyone who has just blagged themselves a Telewest TVDrive PVR, has set the output mode to HDMI and can't get it to reset or go back to SCART: Hit the RESET button Press and hold the STOP and PLAY buttons on the front panel, until BOOT appears on the panel […]
I really should have been sleeping, but I got sucked into watching US President Bush's 2006 State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. Bush's manner of speech really irritates the hell out of me; he speaks in, short burst sentences, not always making it clear, where the sentence is going, to […]
UUUHHHGGG-rrrrRRR! : Genius.
The 78th Academy Award Nominations have been released: oh for David Strathairn and Dame Judi Dench to take Best Actor / Actress in a Leading Role ...
I've had a day to read and get used to The Observer in its Berliner format. It's much easier to handle, much easier to read, and every writer seems almost painfully aware of the change. The quality of both the Guardian's and Observer's journalism is fantastic; now they have a great-looking platform from which to […]
Bit disappointed in John Naughton today ... first he gets the year wrong for the first commercial SMS — it was 1992 regardless of when your phone supported it, John. Then, in today's new spangly Berliner-format Observer , he states that the Internet was "developed between 1973 and 1983" . The first international connection — […]
Top Gear: Gran Turismo 4's Laguna Seca in a Honda NSX versus Real Life — watch Jeremy Clarkson put in a respectable time on the PlayStation2, then completely fail to match it in real life.
TiVo Series 3 has landed. How sweet — and expandable — does this DVR look? If only a UK release would happen again ...