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Not a movie per se, but one of the satellite channels has been re-running Shogun at lunchtime. It might be getting a tad old (1980), but that is one damn well done adaption. Pretty much full of some brilliant acting from all sides, both european/american and japanese. Some amazing performances when you get down to it. Just be sure to watch the mini-series, not the crushed "movie" version some half-wit tried editing out of it.

Or.. as they say on the Deus Ex forums.. you can activate a UK version of the game within the UK..and it'll be playable outside the UK. So if you really, really want that UK version, you just have to come over to blightey for a weekend trip and activate it then..

Pondering on exactly how to get to sleep before 3-3.30am. Which for some reason I haven't been able to do the past week or so. And today had the added joy of an alsatian waking me up by jumping on the bed about an hour before my alarm was due to go off.

Was it EA or Bioware that gave the report that based on current trending and the amount of pre-orders, they're expecting to be selling between 2-3 million copies of SW:TOR within the first year? Now I'm going to have to chase down the niggle that has on my mind..

Big tetris inventory. And you can get augs to make it a bigger tetris inventory..

I need one of the in house lawyers to answer this, but can they legally do this? Arrest them for posting on the web. I think it comes down to the "inciting to riot" style of.. does it really matter the medium that the "inciting" is done in?

Two men jailed for inciting disorded via social networks... Both men seperately set up pages on facebook which were some variation of "Let's have a riot in [insert location]" which has ended up giving them four years in prison..

Because, what, exactly ? Because you can trust a capitalist to be guided by certain principles.... But you can only trust a politician to be a politician. Or is that just a tad too jaded and cynical?

Yes. its.. "game footage" where they keep flipping the view point around in non-game manner. Or at least that's the way it comes across.. You get used to them producing slick trailers and then they throw something like that at you... Edit: But for the good point, it at least had decent music..

New trailer for those in need of a fix, a bit of new combat, but nothing too special.. ME3 Squad Leader Trailer

Dang.. Sorry to hear that Nepenthe. That is major suckage.

It's a government thing. The common public perception is that we don't want the Government to be in the EU, so for the past couple of decades the various pro-EU faction of the government have been signing documents up to a certain point... As long as they can get away without going too far and a referendum being held to stop them. I think it's hitting a point where no-one really knows how much we're connected to the EU or not...

And it's baaacck. Looks like now the riot news is down, they're trying to get focus back on Murdoch's shenanigans.. Hacking "Widely Discussed" at News of the World - Letter released by MP's

Not strictly a new science thing.. but I kind of found it a note of quirky interest.. Teenager talks Mercedes GP team into getting him a bionic hand..

And for just a few weeks (or well, 10 days) till release and they show a new "teaser trailer" DE: Darwin Teaser

... Could this be the excuse for people to take advantage of the way EidosMontreal have geared up for the three screen FoV and upgrade and expand?

Well in another case.. a 23 year old University student with no previous criminal background has been sentenced to a 6 month jail term for looting a single ?3.50 bottle of water from a supermarket during the rioting.. Telegraph - Water Thief Jailed for 6 Months Of course, the key thing about the riots.. is that now no-ones really bothered about the phone-hacking scandals... Wait, have the conspiracy theorists started up that Murdoch was actually behind the riots yet?

and Happy Birthday Malcador.. You've survived another year.. Well it is worth it for the total lack of political correctness alongside the general exuberance and enthusiasm of the presenters.. Trying to wake my mind up today, had a rough night's sleep and feel as if I'm not exactly firing on full cylinders. Which I need to start pushing into a proper zone of usefulness rather then lackadastical idling.

I'm not sure I'd have said cool.. but it was a little interesting to see how the process went and how the art got developed..

Tsk.. and there I'd just shaved after going four or five days with general beardy growth...

Really ? Sure are scraping the barrel for media items here Sometimes folks get interested in the strangest things...

For the quirky interest, a small bit about how the box art was developed... DE - The Story Behind the Box

Is it just them or everyone in there with them ? I guess it does satisfy this need for 'retribution' the media here keep saying Brits seek I think the first one that was on the news was the rioter and his mother. It's legally part of the council's lease with anyone they provide a subsidized council flat for, that criminal activity committed by any member of the household can result in eviction. But it's rare for it to actually happen. I think part of it is pushing the whole "parents should be responsible for their kids" so they're doing the whole..maybe now parents will realise that if their kids screw up like this, it's possible for the parents to suffer.

Dang.. having one of those slightly light-headed saturdays where I want to just kick back and relax.. but I'm not sure with what. There's no games calling my name that I'm in an urge to play.. I haven't got any fresh books to read.. the weather outside is grey and overcast threatening to rain.. Guess I'll have to figure something out.

The police caught one guy who had actually driven up from Winchester to get to London for the "looting"... But now they've actually doing things like evicting tenants from Council Houses who were involved in the riots and looting. Which could have some.. interesting fallout. But I guess it's one form off added "punishment".