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Things to keep me occupied on the long weekend

Download the Dead Rising demo from Xbox Marketplace

It’s time-limited to 15 minutes per game, but still. This is one of the games that finally convinced me to buy an Xbox 360. Let’s hope it was worth it.

Go see A Scanner Darkly on Monday

Get a coupon from today’s copy of The Ticket in the Irish Times. Bring it to UGC today and exchange the coupon for a ticket for two to see the preview of this amazing-looking movie.

Finish reading On Stranger Tides by Tim powers

I bought this because I’ve got such a boner for pirates right now, and this is the book that inspired Ron Gilbert to write the Secret of Monkey Island. It’s a huge story of pirates, voodoo and revenge. And lots of buckles being swashed, naturally. Also recommended: The Bumper Book of Pirate Stories, if only for the chapter entitled “How Half-Arsed Became Captain”. Half-arsed being a famous pirate who got half of his ass blown off by a cannon. They don’t make ’em like that any more.

Snakes in your Motherfuckin' Email »

More genius internet marketing from those Snakes on a Plane fellas. With this, you can send a personalised Snakes On A Plane email (or phone greeting if you’re in the US) “from” Samuel L. Jackson to your friends.

So good, I’ve even sent myself one.

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Ireland's Bee Population in Decline »

As someone who is mortally afraid of bees, wasps and other flying, stinging insects, let me be the first to say FUCK YEAH! TAKE THAT YOU LITTLE FLYING BITCHES.

Some days I feel like Kinski, some days I feel like the dog

Klaus Kinski

Notes: this picture, ripped from a copy of er… Empire (I think?) has been hung up on my bedside table for the past few months. Here’s hoping I’ll be the first hit on google images for ‘kinski gun dog’.

Sophia Coppola

from fuckyeahdirectors

Billy Bragg's concerns over who owns songs posted to Myspace forces the site to change its policy »

Okay, so it’s a far cry from supporting the miner’s strikes in the 1980s. but it’s still pretty neat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ikiw/gro.aidepikiw.ne//:ptth »

The Wikipedia entry for “Palindrome” has a very cute URL

Nintendo send George W Bush a DS lite and Brain Age for his 60th Birthday »

One hell of a publicity stunt…

Mac nerds rejoice: Ellen Feiss is all growned up

Ellen Feiss, internet phenomenon and star of the most famous Mac “Switch” advert, is all growned up. She is making her film acting debut in a French movie called “Bed and Breakfast” alongside Ruardhi Conroy (“Tito” from Into the West).

And, y’know, now she’s no longer jailbait/completely mashed, she’s actually kinda hot.

Movie of His Dark Materials will start production on September 4th / November 16th 2007 release »

Dakota Blue Richards will play Lyra - still hope for Nicole Kidman as Mrs Coulter