That was a particularly bad idea.
Sci-Fi
Celebration Europe
Jul 15th
Wow,
Yesterday I attended Star Wars Celebration Europe, and it was most excellent. After waking at 6am and making my way to London Waterloo station (a record in punctuality for South West trains at only 5 minutes late) I met with Lasse and Peter and travelled to the ExCel center using all manner of different trains, the second of which containing what I’d imagine Darth Vader to look like if he were a seven year old.
Inside the exhibition we first visited the collection of Vader heads, and then watched a film behind the scenes of the new animated series, after that we walked around the exhibition hall admiring the skill taken to create all the cool costumes and all the miniatures (but they were a bit out of league for my purchasing habits). Also the lego collection present was very cool.
Click the AT-AT to see some more photos:
32 Rebuffed Mac Myths (Reply to: PC PRO’s 32 reasons why PC’s are better than Macs)
Apr 19th
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Part 2 of: 32 Rebuffed Mac Myths
A Clockwork Orange- Independents Banned Books Series
Feb 25th
The Independent are publishing their own hardback editions of 25 banned books- starting yesterday with the classic of “A Clockwork Orange.”
This book has really emphasised the morality of choice to me although at times the use of ‘nadsat’ can make the book slightly confusing (although most of the time I did not need to consult the glossary for definitions).
The book discusses the theme on the wrongs of removing someones choice to be evil from them; it has an interesting undertone of a beggining of totalitarianism- with comments about political prisoners needing prison room.
The edition used here is the European one- and I feel this concludes the story in a better way than the American on (the one used in Kubricks movie adaptation).
