Smile

Smil[e]. Made to be shared in 1955 – eaten alone since then.
(The song is Free Design – Love You)

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Posted at 5pm on 07/04/08 | 3 comments | Filed Under: Uncategorized

“No synopsis provided by the studio”

I went to see Cloverfield. That was a mistake.

Cloverfield is J. J. Abrams’ take on an all American monster movie told through the lens of a single handheld camera held by the conveniently named Hud (Haha! HUD! Hahah! Get it? Get it?). It has been described as Godzilla meets Blair Witch Project, and having seen neither of those I can say that is probably accurate. Further plot summary at the

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Posted at 5pm on 11/02/08 | 2 comments | Filed Under: Uncategorized
Twitter: The answer is bound to be "because we can", but... 28K - why?

A former news reporter tells his story

Our story arranged pictures of people coping with the bombing into a slide show, accompanied by the voice of Melinda Liu, a Newsweek reporter describing, over the phone, the harrowing experience of remaining in Baghdad. The outcome of the invasion was still in doubt. There was fear in the reporter’s voice and on the faces of the people in the pictures. [...]

At the conclusion of the screening, there were a

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Posted at 2am on 03/01/08 | 1 comment | Filed Under: Uncategorized

Bubble

Here’s a short prediction for 2008: one of the biggest buzzwords of the upcoming year will be “bubble”. The housing market in the states is a bubble already bursting, Web 2.0 is supposedly a bubble, green tech is a bubble waiting to happen and the Shanghai Stock Exchange has been bubbling for quite some time.

Now, granted, these are all bubbles already mentioned and should be put

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Posted at 5pm on 27/12/07 | 1 comment | Filed Under: Uncategorized