Evocative, homegrown reels.

Ever-shifting views on the worth of LLMs et al.

Some basic issue tracking concepts and tips, aimed mainly at project and account managers who may not have much experience in this area.

A while back I caught myself posting a work-related thought to Path. I realised that I’d broken one of my internalized guidelines (not rules) so I jotted…

Beng Beng.

A wind turbine at Ardrossan Windfarm bursting into flames in a storm, via blech and BBC News.

The London Millennium Footbridge, January 10 2011 – Documentary & Street Photos – feed it to the crows

5 famous sci-fi movie quotes as infographics | SCI FI Wire

Dan Meth’s chart of classic sci-fi films arranged by the year they’re set in.

In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment.…

Threadless T-Shirts - Video Games Ruined My Life by Lawrence Pernica

Ooh, Invader Zim on DVD:

The video for Rock and Roll is Dead (WMV, 3.5 meg) by Kings Have Long Arms and Phil Oakey, in which Phil has his head attached to a robot and destroys a…

What’s the deal with New York and New Jersey?

Jam, Chris Morris’ TV follow-up to the Blue Jam Radio 1 show, is being released on DVD in April. The extra features (including ‘Undeleted Scenes’,…

Londumb was established to campaign against the BBC’s gradual dumbing-down of their London station, GLR London Live BBC LDN. As part of the ongoing…

The BBC’s new(ish) comedy series Look Around You is very nice indeed. The narrator (Nigel Lambert) sounds very much like the voice of Club News on Chris…

Last weekend, in links:

The Nerve Interview with Bret Easton Ellis covers Roger Avary’s adaptation of The Rules of Attraction:

The Guardian interviews Lynne Ramsay and Samantha Morton about the forthcoming adaptation of Alan Warner’s Morvern Callar:

The Cartoon Network’s new spin-off channel CNX launched in the UK earlier this week.

Domino are set to release a double-DVD Pavement retrospective entitled Slow Century, featuring every video, two complete concerts and a full length…

The League of Gentlemen start their third season on Thursday 26th September on BBC TWO. Related: visiting Royston Vasey (aka Hadfield, Derbyshire).

Midnight Eye’s review of Katsuyuki Motohiro’s botched-heist film Space Travelers:

Trailer for Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, the television series sequel to the film. Related: Bandai press release.

Extract from Zadie Smith’s second novel, The Autograph Man. Reviews: This is London, The Observer, Salon.

The Times interviews Martin Sheen about his role as President Josiah “Jed” Bartlett in The West Wing.

Extract from Once More, With Feeling, in which two twentysomethings from the Erotic Review decide to make the “greatest porn film ever seen”.

Higuchinsky’s Uzumaki looks like it might be worth watching out for. The Midnight Eye review summarizes: “a particularly loony film, irrational, macabre,…

The Hustler is available in the UK on DVD on the 19th August.

The Jazz Messengers (another excellent Cowboy Bebop fansite). Related: CowboyBebop.org, a mirror of the deceased official CowboyBebop.com site, including…

Busy for a while. In the meantime, a new low in lazy weblogging: all the links I've never slept with (or, um, weblogged).

Battle of the Planets released (again – this time by Universal Playback) on DVD and VHS. Despite rumours, “there are no Gatchaman or G-Force episodes…

Warp/Creative Review animation microsite.

Keele University’s h2g2 entry.

Gamer.tv are looking for game-literate people to appear as contestants on their new television gaming quiz show.

The National Post on the problems with the Star Wars prequels. In short: where’s the Han Solo types?

The Bill Hicks Story. Related: Bill Hicks MP3s.

The Times on the science of Spider-Man (requires registration).

Hiroyuki Nakano’s “comic spin on the classic samurai tale” is showing between Sat 18 May – Thu 23 May at the ICA. Related: Red Shadow IMDb entry; official…

Le Parkour – extreme roof-jumping urban sport, as featured in the current BBC 1 short, ‘Rush Hour’.

Scratch, a documentary from Palm Pictures, is a “feature length film about the hip-hop DJ and today’s turntablist movement”. Currently set for UK release…

Create lego-style figures, like this rather poor rendition of Porkins, the aptly-named (and ill-fated) X-Wing pilot from Star Wars. If only there was a…

Neon Genesis Evangelion – Perfect Collection released on DVD in the US.

High impact Visa Asia commercial (WMV, 1,850k) featuring Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon star Zhang Ziyi. Also: short “making of…” movies and wallpapers.

The Breeders are back with two(!) new singles (Off You – limited, 10″ vinyl, mirror board sleeve – and Huffer) and a new album, Title TK. They’ve also…

The new Belle and Sebastian album, Storytelling, is set for a June 3rd release.

Slightly obsessive (but attractive nonetheless) Magnum P.I. fansite, featuring a cut-out-and-fold-and-ticky-tape-and-keep paper model kit of TC’s van.

Japan’s psychedelic earth worshippers Acid Mothers Temple perform a live score to the cult Japanese Manga classic “Urotsukidoji” – Legend Of The Overfiend…

“A new TV review site for people who have had enough“, from the veritable Bobzilla.

“Look closely — well, you don’t even have to look that closely — and you’ll swear you’re watching an updated version of Homicide: Life on the Street.”

Why didn’t anyone tell me about this before? Due for release on the 3rd July 2002 in the US and 18th October in the UK. More details: official Cartoon…

On the 29th April 2002 we are releasing Portishead’s acclaimed PNYC live show remastered on DVD “PNYC“. Including the full length performance and…

Anthony Bourdain eats the beating heart of a freshly killed cobra (MPEG, 1472k).