A FriendFeed Convergence
It can’t have escaped your attention unless you’re medically mental, run the world’s narrowest browser, or are reading this through an RSS reader that I like FriendFeed. I like it enough to embed my stream in this site. I like it enough that I spend far more time there than I do here. I like it enough that I’m using it to update this site right now by embedding a video made by FriendFeeders of FriendFeeders discussing things that include FriendFeed in this, a post littered with the word FriendFeed and even titled (borrowed directly from the video) with the very same name too. Now, some people like farming and talking about their bras; for these people there is Facebook. Some people like typing: RT @celebrity something-not-really-worth-tweeting-let-alone-retweeting-but-hell-the-minor-celebrity-involved-might-notice-me-it-can-happen-no-you-shut-up only in 140 characters or fewer. For these people there is Twitter. I like social networking. There’s only FriendFeed. A FriendFeed Convergence from Christopher Harley on Vimeo. Video by Christopher Harley and starring the recently-married and most popular Scoble on FriendFeed Alex Scoble, the librarian who hates pants (and you thought such a thing didn’t exist!) Holly, the farmer but not a Facebook FarmVille farmer Scott Mueller, and the words simply can’t describe how awesome he is...
Lazy Science Fiction TV And Film
Science fiction – sci-fi, if you prefer your genres shortened and hyphenated – is the choice I pick more often than not when it comes to watching a television programme or movie. There are reasons for this: science fiction babes are hot, of course; fashion in science fiction is without equal; science fiction can make you think in a way that insipid romances in teen action comedies don’t (positively, that is). The brain’s a wonderful thing. I like to think. I’m quite good at it even if I say so myself. So this is why it pains me when I see something I like – science fiction – lobotomised in the name of entertainment. In the last six months I’ve noticed I’ve become far more critical of the films and shows that I would ordinarily love; perhaps this ties in with the completion of the Battlestar Galactica series and the termination (pun alert) of The Sarah Connor Chronicles, both of which were great examples of science fiction done well with attention to detail and engrossing storylines. Characters are important; when a character does something in a book, TV show, or movie I like to know why they’ve acted the way they did. When it doesn’t make sense – when it’s out of character – the role is spoiled. In a similar manner, where science fiction is involved, events and actions are important not just as to why they’ve occurred, but also how they’ve taken place. This is not to say there can’t be suspension of disbelief; a little suspension is great as it tickles the wonderment ganglion in the cerebral cortex. I don’t worry, for instance, about high energy radiation problems of warp generation or the puzzling inconsistencies in artificial gravity. I do, however, get irked when aliens try to take over a planet which is toxic to them: Martians and Signs Things, I’m looking at you here. Star Trek J. J. Abrams brought a fresh, new look to the cinema screens with Star Trek and overall I really liked it. Visually: lovely. Some nice touches and nods to the series. But… Romulans threatened by a supernova in another solar system? Possibly a little dangerous depending on proximity. However, not world-exploding dangerous. Also: not very fast, relatively-speaking; certainly not for a warp-capable race with incredibly well-armed mining vessels. No evacuations? Just blame the people trying to help? Weak plot and bad science all over this. One drop of red matter can destroy a planet; all the rest of the red matter together takes about as long to grudgingly eat up a mining vessel. Was it past its use-by date?...
Disappointing 2010 Movie Sequels
Now, I’m not the sort of person who will openly say that Hollywood is a lazy, lying entity that has run out of ideas and is content to rehash old films and brazenly exploit existing movie franchises in order to make vast amounts of money for little effort and huge profits in this era of rampant piracy that is destroying the flourishing industry that is flourishing so flourishingly in this aforementioned piratical period but I am the sort of person who will mention it in opening and rambling paragraphs about cinematic releases in order to embellish the content of that which I’m writing. Like that! I’m also the sort of person who will support my opinion that the movie industry is long overdue a kick up the backside by presenting a few of 2010’s upcoming releases which, quite frankly, are an insult to the average cinemagoer in the world. Not that I go to the cinema, of course; it’s full of people and you know how they annoy me. If you thought fighting crippling memory loss and secret organisations within the CIA was tough then you try getting a loan for a house when you’ve got no credit history. Neo’s back – somehow, try not to think about it too much – and he’s more than a little distressed by just how much of a beating the world took. There is no spoon but there are plenty of useful DIY tips. Girls and their mums will flock to see anything with a gay vampire in it and this Twilight sequel will also boost sales at...
2010 Horoscope
It’s almost 2010 and that means two things: We need to come up with a replacement for the awful term noughties pretty darn quick, and let’s be clear on this: as bad as noughties is I will never say tennies, ever, because it’s that much worse again. A new year brings new opportunities to tap into the incredible precognitive power of star locations in the night sky and map out an accurate prediction of the year to come for exactly one twelfth of the population per paragraph. Aquarius The moon will be in retrograde for the entire length of 2010 which will lead to its eventual ejection from the Sol system. As a result of losing its main natural satellite the Earth will suffer from weaker tides and a long period of adjustment for nocturnal species who have evolved to measure passages of time and synchronise cycles of activity with the moon’s hitherto regular presence. All this is bad news for Aquarians who will be blamed for the general upheaval of life by windsurfers and bats with the two previously disparate groups coming together to slaughter everyone born under this particular star sign in late August. Lucky Pantone Colour: 4725 U Pisces As reported in March all horoscopes for Pisces will cease effectivity as of January 1st 2010 so you can expect a quiet year which will be the first one in over three decades to be tall, dark, handsome stranger-free. Lucky Pharmaceutical Isolated From A Fungus: Cephalosporin Libra You’ll have a much better start to this year coming up than you ever could have imagined but it won’t be long-lasting and by the second week in January your liver and kidneys will have failed completely. Things will pick up by the end of the month only for one of your lungs to collapse around Valentine’s Day. You can look forward to a period of calm then that will last the best part of a week before you lose your legs to Surprise Gangrene. Ebola will claim an arm later that weekend before you can succumb to depression and the good news from the doctors that they can cure you and replace all your body parts will be missed from a build up of wax in your ears which is overlooked by the medical world but ends up suffocating your brain in its glorious new physcial form leaving you in a vegetative state. Jessica Simpson will marry all of you in December. Lucky King Of The Ostrogoths: Theodoric The Great Coca Cola Capricorn Coca Cola have bought the rights to sponsor Capricorn for the 2010-2011 Horoscope Season. You’re going...
Sex, Porn, And Rabbits
Rabbits and porn: two seemingly disparate entities whose threads of existence have become inexplicably entangled over the decades. Just what’s that all about? People do "go at it like bunnies", of course. But that’s only if they’re in a hurry and worried about predators. Hugh Heffner built an empire on the back of his fixation for ladies with fluffy backsides and large ears. Yet strangely he won’t date women his own age when they’re clearly perfect for him now. There’s the famous rabbit vibrator too. I’ve seen pictures of it and read about it on Wikipedia (there’s research in them thar articles, ya hear!) and its name allegedly derives from its similarity in appearance to rabbit ears. Ears of a deformed rabbit. That’s been run over by a truck. Then skinned. Then chewed for a bit. Then flung at a wall where it stuck fast. I have to mention Jessica Rabbit, naturally. One of only two or three dozen cartoon characters that are erotically attractive to men. Yes, you’re right; we should thank the deviant animators of Japan for the majority of the rest. So rabbits and sex and porn are all bosom buddies and, by-and-large, I don’t think I’ve ever felt any unnatural urge towards the lagomorphs. This got me wondering whether there was something wrong with me. And then I thought about you. What if there’s something wrong with you too? Yeah, I’m still not getting...
An Interview With Author Mark A. Rayner
It was a dark and stormy night… somewhere… more likely than not. All I know is that – for me – it was dark because my room is dark and I rarely open the curtains. It may well have been night but I don’t wear a watch and my body clock was fried after a run-in with a cattle prod (another story, another time). It wasn’t stormy though; unless it was one of those quiet storms you never hear about. To be frank it doesn’t really matter about the general luminance and exterior weather conditions. What actually matters is that I was conducting an interview with prominent (he protrudes into three of my very favourite dimensions) internet-present author and occasional Canadian Mark A. Rayner. We discussed the decline of sea shanties at length. We formulated a new theory of life, the universe, and everything bar Miley Cyrus. We broached the subject of sex but decided that it wouldn’t be fair to our respective partners and the distance thing would be a killer. Mainly we talked about books, writing, publishing, authoring, and other related synonyms. If you want to know a little bit more about writing and getting your work published then this interview could be just the thing you need; if you’re interested in sea shanties then I’m afraid that section was cut for brevity’s sake. ME: My readers – based on search referral traffic – are perverts and I like to cater to their needs so first thing’s first… this book we’re about to talk about features sex. Weird sex. Animalesque-human sex. Some might say “forbidden sex”. Some might say “the sort of sex the Catholic Church would cover up for decades if their sexual cover-up goons weren’t so busy with all the paedophilia and other related shenanigans (not that there’s necessarily any cross-species sex going on in the church (donkeys feature at Easter but I don’t really recall any other major animal featuring heavily in the New Testament which is probably why a lot of them don’t go to church in the first place (also: they’re not stupid))). Now that I’ve peppered this opening paragraph with terms that deviants are likely to type into Google perhaps you could talk about how easy or difficult it was to write the sex scenes, what sort of research you conducted, and how much of you went into the sex scenes? Hopefully in a manner that won’t get you fired from your job. Although: what a story! MARK: The writing of sex scenes is notoriously fraught with pitfalls, and many great writers have made complete asses of themselves in attempting it....
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