Where would a lot of today’s greatest hits be without their music videos? Pretty much still doing good, you’d hope. Anyway, music videos can be damn entertaining and just because a song might not need one, that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t bother. Here are 10 […]
Recently, Maclean’s ran an article ruminating on the dumbing down of the United States. According to multiple studies, deftly shoved together by writer Jonathon Gatehouse in the piece, one of the most powerful nations is dropping in intelligence, and not just in the cut and […]
Dragon Dictate 4.0 for Mac – $180, with headset Dragon NaturallySpeaking v.12.0, Premium Edition – $183, with headset. Nuance Naturally Speaking v. 12.0 – $187.71 with headphones I’ve never been much of a fan of speech recognition software. Up till very recently, it was crude in the extreme… “You. […]
Dee-dooo-diddle-um Pa-pa-pa-pom, Pa-pa-pa-pom, Pa-pa-pa-pom, Pa-pa-pum Etc.… SPOILERS AHEAD Episode seven of this season’s Game of Thrones, Mockingbird, was one of those quieter episodes – catching up with incidental story lines, placing characters like pieces on a board ready for the oncoming twists and gambits, that […]
FIFA World Cups are rarely strangers to controversy. In fact, FIFA World Cups and controversy are so familiar they probably have pet names for each other like ‘fifi’ and ‘connie’. In recent memory there was the 2002 World Cup where the host nation South Korea […]
This Monday, May 19, 2014, the big gossip was the acquisition by Google – via its Youtube.com arm – for a relative bargain fee of US$1bn, the video game-streaming company Twitch Interactive. So far they’re keeping mum about it, but it’s already way bigger than Hulu […]
Freedome VPN $5 per month, or $30 per year It’s a scary dog-eat-dog world out there. It’s no exaggeration to say that breaches and security flaws happen every day. You can protect yourself, however. Freedome VPN, an app from the Finnish security firm F-Secure, gives […]
Last week we dug deep into one of the most commonplace dangers in our modern diet, sugar. So, let’s help you out of the woods. These natural wonders not only offer more variety of flavor and texture to play with in the kitchen than white […]
Did you like The Thing? Are you getting a little jaded with the glut of vampire romances? The endless regurgitation of the zombie genre? The snore-worthiness of watching teenagers get slashed up for their sins? Well, just in case you assumed Austrian cinema is defined […]
SO MANY SPOILERS This week was a weird one for television. Epic, yes, as we got to see the conclusion to the first season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., but also very strange and trippy indeed. Basically, everything is going wrong for every character of every […]
There’s no snow in the opening flashback to Episode 5 of Fargo, just a wheat field. Nobody’s dead yet, as far as we know. Lester passively haggles with a shop owner over a 3-pack of socks, but somehow walks out with a 12-gauge shotgun (plus […]
We’ve been saying for a while now that the adult industry is coming out of the shadows and into the light. Publications such as the Huffington Post, Salon.com and The Guardian all regularly feature articles that look at porn in a factual, objective way. Gone […]
Until recently I was teaching English to the director of a multinational in Barcelona, and just before I left for England I went to visit him to congratulate him on the birth of his daughter. When the two of us were alone he mournfully conceded […]
Last week, a friend of mine mentioned in conversation that stand up comedy and blues music were two forms of expression that couldn’t be farther apart from each other. “One makes you feel sad, the other one makes you feel happy,” she explained. I’ve performed […]
While the opening minute of Neon Nights looks like a mainstream urban tale that begins with a passionate love scene from two very competent actors, what finally reveals the porn nature of the movie to unknowing eyes is the quick transition from tender love-making to […]
Last month David Letterman surprised the world by announcing his retirement from late night television, after more than 30 years doing it. CBS, managing to avoid the chaos that NBC and other networks had on their hands whenever a new host shift came along, anointed […]
You know when you discover an amazing T.V. series and tell your friends about it, describing some of its finer points, be it the acting, the plot twists or in this case how in every episode without fail someone gets raped and/or murdered…usually both! You […]
Faking orgasms is commonly viewed as a female-only trait. It’s understandable, since historically there’s a lot more women that won’t get off during sex than men. Physiologically speaking, the purpose of sex in mankind is reproductive, and a female orgasm is not necessary to create […]
Continuing his Brit’s eye view of the Obamacare initiative, Henry Vespa asks: Is it working? The $64,000 question is, after the dust has settled, after the party political backbiting and manoeuvring, after the legal challenges, and after all the spurious stories and statements, is Obamacare […]
The riding lesson looks like it’s about to begin… but is it what our girl has been waiting for? “I’ve got to run down and bring Cisco the chainsaw. I’ll be back in about twenty minutes”, my cowboy said, looking at the pregnant girl from […]
