Category: Linklog

Who cares about not finding WMD’s in Iraq when you can now find optimism instead. Isn’t that nice to know?

Groundbreaking black US comedian Richard Pryor has died after almost 20 years with multiple sclerosis. He died at the age of 65 of a heart attack at Encino hospital near Los Angeles.

6ft Jellyfish terrorise Japan. They are called echizen kurage and they sound like monsters from the trashier reaches of Japanese science fiction. They are 6ft wide and weigh 450lb (200kg), with countless poisonous tentacles, they have drifted across the void to terrorise the people of Japan. Vast armadas of the slimy horrors have cut off the country’s food supply. As soon as one is killed more appear to take its place. Echizen kurage is not an extraterrestrial invader, but a giant jellyfish that is devastating the livelihoods of fishermen in the Sea of Japan.

A passenger who claimed to have a bomb on board an American Airlines plane in Miami was shot dead by a US federal officer, government officials say. The 44-year-old US citizen was shot by an air marshal when reaching into his bag after leaving the plane. Reports say no device has yet been found. Flight 924 had just arrived from Colombia, and was heading to Orlando. It is the first time since the attacks of 11 September 2001 that a US air marshal has shot at a passenger. A witness said that the man frantically ran down the aisle of the Boeing 757 and that a woman with him said he was mentally ill.

Rangers 1 – 1 Internazionale. Rangers make history as they become the first Scottish side to qualify for the UEFA Champions League knockout rounds after a 1-1 draw against Inter Milan. Of course, ESPN piss me off by showing a meaningless Chelsea vs. Liverpool game instead of this, or even the AC Milan vs. Schalke 04 or any game that meant *something*. It’s a pity they won’t show anybody but Chelsea or Manchester United.

X-Men 3 Teaser Trailer. Continues on from X-Men 2, but now they have Beast and Angel and Jean Grey as Phoenix, cooooooooool…

Adobe (formerly) Marcomedia. Yes, we’ve known it was happening for most of this year, it still looks wrong… So very wrong…

The best Xbox 360 advert you wont see on TV. I can see why they wont show it on TV, but this cries out for other means of advertising, like cinemas for instance… Anyways, I reminds me of old school yard games from years gone by, but on a gander scale [via]

Congress to look into the “deeply flawed” college football BCS system. Hey Congress, isn’t there something more important you can worry about than college football? Like, say, steroid abuse in baseball or maybe the small matter of the war in Iraq?

Adam Curry caught up in a sticky wiki. Former MTV veejay and podcasting entrepreneur Adam Curry appears to have been caught anonymously editing the podcasting entry on Wikipedia to remove credit from other people and inflate his role in its creation. [via]

Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man’s Chest Teaser Trailer. Yo ho, yo ho, a Pirate’s life for me!

Empire’s 50 Greatest Independent Movies. Some are surprising, like Passion of the Christ and The Terminator…

Gollum, the Wikipedia Browser. For people to lazy to type “wikipedia.org” then press enter.

Users report Xbox 360’s are “crashing like mad.” Oh dear… Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear… Maybe this machine was rushed afterall?

Batman Concludes. Batman finally meets his end in this dramatic conclusion, but why didn’t anyone think of it before?