The most serious things are often said in jest. From a recent HBO special, this clip of Dennis Miller giving “The Big Speech” is very good…

In a splendidly retro way, TheEye has been tagged in a what-does-your-desk-look-like meme by Woman On A Raft. The path of tagging destruction wends its way back to Mordor via JuliaM; Grim Reaper and ManWiddecombe, Filthy Engineer and to the instigator, the unmissable Dick Puddlecote. Various others of the bloggers of Gondor have […]

Apologies for the still squiffy comments system – fixed on Monday hopefully. In the meantime a poser: if you were stranded on a desert island with five characters from Star Wars, which ones would you eat first? Disappointingly, “Leia in the slave girl costume” isn’t one of the options.

Really enjoyed this from BusinessInsider – 50 inventions from the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s. Most of them didn’t make it (like the Brush & Shine tool for bald men) but some are now part of our everyday lives. Spot a 1949 version of the Segway, early riot police armour, the […]

A mash of famous last words from the silver screen. Some absolute classics in here.

Having found a horror movie site via the comments on the previous thread and knowing that the grim terrible flesh-eating abomination that is the Labour Party Leadership Question Time broadcast is only an hour and a half away…the common denominator…zombies…need an outing here. Haven’t blogged on them since Zombie Awareness […]

A midweek jukebox for the geeks amongst us… Dedicated to CGI guru Dwr08, who wishes he was this good.

Star Wars done as a silent black’n’white movie. Really good…

Great stuff from TheEndive: A spy swap agreement was finalized with Russia to day to deport 10 alleged Russian spies in trade for the recently exhumed body of Chess legend Bobby Fischer. “The Russians have been very cooperative,” said Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns, “They wanted to […]