Graham Linehan, on his Hompendium of Dorithies, has taken a quick look at the new His Dark Materials film. They have reuinted the Casino Royale leads Daniel Craig and Eva Green, and opted to cast Nicole Kidman as Mrs. Coulter. Choosing the child actor is always a gamble, so they played it safe [...]
RTE notes that new Census of Population figures published today have ordained six new large towns. Any Cork people who were confused last year by the city’s official decrease in population will not be surprised by the fact that three of the “new major towns” are within 25mins drive from Cork City.
By now, most [...]
I’m learning new stuff every day on my MacBook Pro. Today, OS X Hacker points out how you can zoom in on any part of the screen, simply by holding control and dragging two fingers along the trackpad. I can’t see this being useful, but that is beside the point. Little features [...]
Wednesday, April 25, 2007 RTE mentions that Bertie is embarrassed by the fact that we, “the laughing stock of europe”, don’t yet use electronic voting, while France get their election results in two hours, electronically. Two hours is very impressive, and that’s also how long the French voters were left queuing. This is before we even consider [...]
BBC has news of two new movies from the Coen brothers. First is No Country for Old Men – an adaptation of a Cormac McCarthy novel by the same name. “Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon some dead bodies, a stash of heroin and more than $2 million in [...]
Infoworld are crowing that a “myth” has been crushed, as a hacker managed to break in to OS X to win a security contest in Vancouver. No myth has been crushed – at worst, perhaps a misconception has been dented. OS X is not hack-proof – there is no operating system on earth [...]
Kotaku highlights this Wall Street Journal article which examines Nintendo’s success so far in 2007. Having never paid much attention to the portable market, the extent of the Nintendo DS’ dominance is surprising to me. What is not surprising, however, is the performance of the Wii relative to its expensive competitors.
Despite initial doubts [...]
Congrats to Colm and Joost in becoming immortalised in /etc/services – they now have an official IANA assigned port. Incidentally – if you haven’t got a Joost account yet and feel like checking it out, let me know because I have a few invitations available.
The Daily Tech have an article about a hacker who is curretly holding Valve Software (the makers of Half-life) to ransom, having hacked into the system that manages internet cafe licences, and retrieved details and credit card information.
Most gamers will remember the bit of trouble that Valve had a couple of years ago, when a [...]
I saw an article today about a USB chess board that tracks your pieces and allows you to see a virtual representation complete with analysis on your PC. Nothing hugely innovative there – perhaps there was no demand for this kind of thing 8 years ago when they were churning out steering wheels for [...]