Archive for March, 2009

What’s with all the incest?

Is anyone else slightly disturbed that over the last year the number of cases of fathers raping and fathering children with their own daughters is now at four? First there was Josef Fritzl, who imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and had seven children with her. Then there was a man in Sheffield, even more disturbing because it’s where I live, who raped his two daughters fathering nine children. Then in quick succession we hear about the “Italian Fritzl” and the “Columbian Fritzl” who both raped their daughters, the former encouraging his son to take part and the later claiming
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OnLive. The Future of Gaming?

With the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2009 now underway the furore seems to be centring on a new device called OnLive. The device aims to eliminate the need for separate games consoles such as the Xbox, Playstation or PC and even the need for any actual games. OnLive only needs a small decoding device to work and all the games are stored on servers at the company’s headquarters. Instead of playing the game locally your controller will play the game on their servers and through video compression a video of your interaction with the game will be sent back to
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Great New Guy Movies Coming Soon

There are a ton of movies that look to be exciting, dropping this year. All of them are coming out relatively soon so i thought i would make a post about the ones i am looking forward to. The first has to be the latest terminator movie, sub titled Salvation. After Christian Bale’s hilarious tantrum on set its going to be fun to try and guess which scene was so involving the lighting director’s mistimed entrance caused the star to throw a hissy that was even parodied on Family guy. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/7Yrc5ULtKc0&hl=en&fs=1] The action scenes dont look half bad either check out the explosive second
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Manchester United to win the quintuple?

Ferguson may have recently moved to calm talk of an unprecedented year for Manchester United but if Chelsea and Liverpool do not secure wins tonight then the premier league is surely in the bag with two trophies still to play for. United are 7 points clear with a game in hand and have a superior goal difference. With other teams faltering united have been breaking records as the superb Ferdinand and Vidic partnership, aided by the steady hands of Van Der Saar, continue to look almost impenetrable. United’s next FA cup game is against Fulham and Ferguson’s remark that “We
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