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Ramblings around the web

If only:

A Making-Of trailer for the new Wallace and Gromit film – coming out in October 2005… can’t wait!

Heh – lip-synching chubby American. Always good for a laugh. Obviously 2005’s Star Wars Kid…

And finally for today – a Flash presentation examining Italy’s relationship with the EU. Absolutely incredibly brilliant!

It gets worse…

What’s with the whole updating craze? Just look at what Warner Brothers are doing to Bugs Bunny for a new show called “Loonatics”:

The show features new versions of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote, the Tasmanian Devil, Road Runner and Lola Bunny (the newest of the characters, who was introduced in the [...]

Only Smarties Have The Answer

Why, oh why, have Nestle decided to stop selling Smarties in tubes? It’s as if Terry’s decided that making Chocolate Oranges round was too expensive, and started selling them as cubes. Or Cadbury’s got fed up with Creme Eggs, and started making Creme Nuggets, or something. I’m disgusted.

I mean, just look at the new ‘hexatube’:

It [...]

Aargh – the noise!

It’s absolutely tipping it down at the moment… and the corrugated iron roof that the builders* have constructed outside our room is SO VERY NOISY.

There are three different “projects” that they’re doing around Castle at the moment – as far as I can tell there are no more than 5 workmen on site at any [...]

Get a life, America

Super Bowl Telecast Still Draws Protests Despite complaints that Sunday’s Super Bowl halftime show was bland and forgettable, the FCC received 33 complaints Monday from viewers who either objected to Paul McCartney’s rendition of “Get Back,” which contains a reference to “California grass,” or were upset by the content of [...]

Surprise!

Even better: view the Annoying Thing movie in its full glory!

And read the story behind the Annoying Thing (for that is its name) at BBC News.

“Celebrity” Big Brother

Happy Mondays dancer Bez has won the third series of reality show Celebrity Big Brother. He beat Blazin’ Squad rapper Kenzie and actress Brigitte Nielsen in the Channel 4 final on Sunday, winning £50,000.

Has anyone ever heard of Bez? Happy Mondays? Nope. Not me.

Blazin’ Squad – yep, I’ve heard of [...]

Jumping on the Bandwagon

The New York Times has done a very good spoof advert about all those armbands that charities seems to be selling nowadays.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve come across yellow ones for Lance Armstrong’s cancer campaign (designed by Nike), blue anti-bullying ones, and white “Make Poverty History” ones (as featured on the Vicar of [...]

Why am I so busy?

At uni, where I’m supposed to be working hard, I managed to blog pretty much every day.

During the Christmas holidays, when I’m supposed to be relaxing and not doing (quite as much) work, I’ve blogged 4 times in a fortnight (or so)… and most of those have been short and about the same thing.

Why? Well, [...]

His Dark Materials – No God?

Saw this story on the IMDb – it’s a pity, I think:

Fans of the Philip Pullman novel His Dark Materials have expressed outrage over news that director-screenwriter Chris Weitz (American Pie) has removed references to God and the Catholic church in the movie. Weitz told a website set up by fans of the [...]