Author: Carrie

  • The Simpsons Movie: disappointing

    I wish I’d read Biffo’s blog before going to the cinema: Ignore all these 4/5 reviews telling us not to worry that they might’ve ballsed it up – they have ballsed it up. It’s really, really, really average. And it feels hollow – unlike the series, you can almost hear the air whistling between the…

  • Poptastic!

    US teen-pop sensations Aly & AJ are, I’m sure, mere puppets of some sinister svengali. But who cares? Potential Breakup Song [Youtube] is fantastic, and makes me want to dance with all the sexiness you’d expect from a 34-year-old man with a bad back. [Via popjustice]

  • Mobile phones and electrosensitivity, again

    When I wrote about electrosensitivity for PC Plus a few months back, I mentioned that while every study to date had found no evidence that the condition was anything other than psychological, a key study at Essex University was taking place to look even more closely at the issues. The results are in, and guess…

  • Advice for anyone who’s going to be Best Man at a wedding

    On the morning of your friend’s wedding, if you’re trying to calm his nerves by projecting an air of calm, unruffled “this is a piece of piss” confidence, try not to walk head-first into a door with sufficient force that your specs puncture one of your eyelids. For some reason the groom’s faith in your…

  • Wii will hurt you

    For all I love Nintendo’s Wii and reckon it’s a work of genius, I’m really not sure about the Wiimote from an ergonomic point of view. As someone who’s had repetitive strain injury for years I’m pretty good at keeping the symptoms at bay (so RSI-inducing games such as Rayman Raving Rabbids are a no-no),…

  • Yes, I am easily amused

    A new blog, Jockshire, made me laugh this morning by explaining the West Lothian Question. As Mr Jock explains, it’s actually several sub-questions, one of which is: What on earth possessed them to allow Livingston to be built there?

  • FFS indeed

    You probably don’t want to see a black Merc, registration N511 FFS, if you’re wandering around Glasgow at the moment. So far he’s waved hammers at people, attempted to run a bloke over and been involved in two car crashes. Insert “sounds like a typical Merc owner” joke here.

  • Wii will shock you

    I’ve been playing a bit of Resident Evil 4 on the Wii, and it’s amazing – not the game so much as using the Wiimote to play it. What is (so far) a pretty standard O Noes! Zombies! game becomes considerably scarier and more stressful when you’re trying to aim your gun for real or…

  • We’re blogging about the wrong stuff, ladies and gentlemen

    According to Business Week, Perez Hilton rakes in $111,000 a month from celebrity gossip blogging while TechCrunch’s future-of-the-web stuff brings in $200K per month. My new blog – Paparazzi Snaps And AJAX Apps – launches tomorrow.

  • Set your body clock? Never mind that, how do you switch it off?

    There’s a discussion on Lifehacker about training your internal alarm clock so you wake up whenever you want. Okay, but how do you turn the sodding thing off? My one’s permanently set to Stupidly Early O’Clock and if I thought smashing myself in the head with hammers would change that, I’d try it.