Stalking Venus

Today seems to be a particularly good day for bizarre news.
In the Northern Territories of Australia, a man was recently arrested for speeding along in a car filled with drugs (inlcuding 2 cannabis plants on the back seat), at 150km/h, using a video camera to film himself masturbating, while shooting at kangaroos with a rifle.
I [...]

There’s a nice nostalgic trip down memory lane over at Wired, for any nerds, geeks and computer nutters out there.
WarGames was the movie that inspired generations of hackers, and more or less brought the concept of hacking into mainstream awareness.
In the movie, David Lightman (played by a very young Matthew Broderick) hacks into a military [...]

David Duchovny recently told American ‘TV Guide’ magazine that their initial script reading “was more sentimental than our actual reunion… I realized that Gillian and I have changed over the years, but when you start reading these people, they haven’t. They are the same and they feel the same way about each other.”
He also revealed, [...]

When I was a small child, there was a relatively small handful of author’s names that I knew: Roald Dahl, Alfred Hitchcock, Enid Blyton, A.A. Milne, and of course, C.S. Lewis.
I didn’t read all of the Narnia books, because frankly even at age seven, I found them to be a bit preachy. I was reading [...]

Sad news for the film world today. The New York Times is reporting that Sydney Pollack died in his home last night, aged 73.
The world-class director of award-winning films like Out of Africa, Tootsie, and The Way We Were succumbed to cancer in his home on Monday night.
Details and filmography here.
Sources:
New York Times via BoingBoing