From: James Duffy (eldufo@hotmail.com)
Sent: 16 June 2009 16:45:09
To: doormat@innocentdrinks.com
Subject: Grammatical error
Hello,
Your smoothie packaging contains a small grammatical error.
On the list of “innocent promises”, #2 reads: “It is cheaper to buy this carton than do the alternative; buying the fruit yourself and blending it in your kitchen.”
This semi-colon should in fact be a colon. Trust [...]
In my long and adoring entry about Panzer Dragoon Saga a few weeks ago, I mentioned a particular creepy postmodern twist it half-shares with Bioshock, or would half-share if Bioshock actually went through with it, which it didn’t. In fact, I am not altogether sure if the creepy postmodern twist Bioshock hints at even occurred [...]
And so for the first time in some months James watched a trailer for a video game and thought: Yes. I would like to play this video game.
A tear came to my eye.
If you pay attention to such things, you will have heard by now that 3D Realms, the developer of the Duke Nukem franchise, has finally run out of money. With it dies Duke Nukem Forever, the game industry’s most notoriously delayed product and perhaps the best definition of “development hell” anyone has ever had the [...]
I remember Noel Edmonds as a nice man who poured technicolour gunge on celebrities and gave excited children Mega Drives (with Sonic 2 and everything). Until recently I had thought of him as a rather pitiful but ultimately harmless presenter of awful light entertainment programmes and peddler of creepy “cosmic ordering” books. (Cosmic ordering is [...]
I found this strange video a year ago and still review it from time to time. Apart from its obvious comic value, I find it oddly beautiful. Its visual incongruity– a Korean man dancing a very American dance to a very undancable piece of music– and sad, faded, washed-out tint seem eerily appropriate for the [...]
Heard on the radio this week that the masks worn by Mexican citizens in all those photos offer no protection against airborne viruses. I had assumed that they were officially-distributed sanitary masks with proper filters in them, but apparently they are just bits of porous material. It seems the manufacturers of useless sanitary masks are [...]
The BBC has received more than a thousand complaints after Robert Luckett’s appearance on “Stupid” Paul Armstrong’s Radio 4 comedy show, The Crumbs of My Battenberg.
Luckett made reference to urination on thirty-one occasions, and twice himself urinated - at one point onto fellow guest panelist Rob Brydon - during yesterday’s broadcast.
One listener wrote: “Though the [...]
Increasingly, it seems to me, people are rejecting the humble bathtub in favour of the more modern and chic showerhead. Showers, they claim, are faster, more water-efficient, allegedly more hygienic. I will not deny that showers have a few practical advantages over baths– particularly their speed– but these, I believe, come at the expense of [...]
Sarah, from Coventry, asks on the BBC swine flu Q&A: “Is there a risk that if the emerging swine flu H1N1 virus comes into contact with the established bird flu H5N1 virus that the two could mix and cause an even bigger pandemic risk?”
It’s like superflu fan-fiction.
