Japanese rubber band assault rifle
Every reason to live in terror of a resurgence in Japanese militarism. Someone spent months making this thing.
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Can’t. Stop. Watching.
Not sure whether to laugh or cry. Or run. The 3D renderings come from AlterEgo, the ‘facial performance’ team currently working on Silent Hill 5. Go here for more strangely unsettling videos.
Rock Abuse, Part 1,703
Transpires that a UK Top 40 hit was the launch of a gum ad campaign. Says the Beeb:
But in studying the words of all the hits, I failed to spot the significance of the chorus to Brown’s number. “Double your pleasure/double your fun”, he sings – a line I should have twigged was from the [...]
Garfield strays into existential angst
Garfield: cheesy American cartoon strip. Garfield minus Garfield: surreal observations on the American mind. Cool ideally, brilliantly effective.
Autism: is TV the culprit?
New report points to television being a cause behind the growth of autism in the US (it has gone, apparently, from one in 2500 children in the late ’70s to one in 166 today).
The film that that doesn’t see black
Watched Collateral again this morning. Probably the sixth or seventh time I’ve watched the film right through. I begun to wonder why I find it so habit-forming – I’m certainly no major fan of either Cruise or Foxx, and the plot itself is hardly life-changing (in fact, Vincent’s attempts to intellectualise his killing is just [...]
How did the Roman Empire fall, exactly?
Watched Road Wars on SkyOne last night. Ten minutes in, I had a brief, well… moment. I suddenly became aware that I was sat on a sofa somewhere in Surrey, watching images on a television screen.
Those images were depicting a society that has collapsed. Civillians showed no fear of the law; they were happily spitting [...]
A lesson in determination
You think today was a struggle. You’re glad to be home, to recover from the slings and arrows of your day at the mill. Read this, and think again.
Nabil remained on Mutanabi Street, overseeing reconstruction of the shops even as he struggled to rebuild himself. A month later, he left to undergo further surgery. “He [...]