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Month: January, 2008

Run Lola Run

17 January, 2008 (22:11) | Movies, Reviews

I watched Run Lola Run again last night, it’s a German film from 1999 and it has a bit of twist on storytelling. Lola, a young German punk girl with bright orange hair, has just received a phone call from her boyfriend Manny. It seem he has lost 100 thousand marks in a subway [...]

Sky Girls Figures

16 January, 2008 (20:13) | Figures, Previews

Coming in late April are two more additions to the Konami’s Sky Girls line of figures. Elise and Aisha are part of Konami’s MMS (Muli Moveable System), so are more Action Figure then Figurine. They are not built to any real scale but stand about 15cm tall retailing for 2600 yen each they are a [...]

Macworld Expo Keynote

15 January, 2008 (20:07) | Computers

The big news today is of course Jobs reveal of the New MacBook Air. The super thin and light laptop with a 5 hour battery life and a 13.3 inch screen, starting price only $1,799. While most people are going gaga over the new hardware what I think is the best news of the whole [...]

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Cronicles: Pilot Review

14 January, 2008 (21:18) | Reviews, Television

 

The opening on the series give some nods to the movie with a car driving down a desert road with a voice over of Sarah Connor talking about the future for her son. That along with opening dream sequence help tie the series into the first two movies in both look and feel. The opening [...]

The Sarah Connor Cronicles Airs Tonight

13 January, 2008 (18:11) | Television

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles starts tonight in 2 hours my time. For those who live on the east coast its been on for a hour now. So far what little preview I have seen it looks like it is going to be good. Hopefully it will live up to expectations and find an audience. [...]

The Orange Box: Half-Life 2

12 January, 2008 (22:49) | Gamming, Reviews

Well there was almost no post tonight the reason being that I started playing Half-Life 2 and lost track of the time. I pick up the Orange Box when I got my Xbox 360 mainly for Portal the FPS/Puzzle hybrid game.
So today I thought I would give Half-Live a try, as I hadn’t played a [...]

Big Ass TV

11 January, 2008 (22:24) | Television

Panasonic unveiled their new 150 inch HD Plasma Television at the Consumer Electronics Show this week. To put that in perspective this sucker is the size of NINE of those 50 inchers you have been drooling over at Best Buy. While no one is talking price right they are not going to be cheap, [...]