Barry Ween, Boy Genius

Posted on Jul 5, 2009 in Books What 10 year old doesn’t daydream about being able to invent wonderful things and build them on his/her own. Unfortunately for many of us we were limited to achieving these goals via Lego bricks or other simplistic means. This is not the case for young Barry Ween, created by Judd Winick and published in the Barry Ween comic books from Oni Press. Barry is a ten year old with an IQ of 350....
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NES Dragon’s Lair

Posted on Jul 4, 2009 in Games I’m sure that anyone who has had at least and inkling of interest in consoles at one time or another through out the last twenty years must at least have heard of Dragon’s Lair at least ones. There have been literally dozens of versions of the Dragon’s Lair games but recently someone dug up the old Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) version and proclaimed it as one of the...
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Article of the week (27/2009): Goldman Sachs: The Great American Bubble Machine

Posted on Jul 3, 2009 in Finance This week’s article is Goldman Sachs: The Great American Bubble Machine by Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stones magazine (Grab PDF HERE). Following is a small excerpt: The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere. The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into...
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Monkey Island SE & Tales of Monkey Island

Posted on Jul 2, 2009 in Games This post is specifically for all point and click adventure games who have somehow missed the news that the original Monkey Island is being re-released as a Special Edition with redrawn graphics and voiceovers this summer for PC and X-Box Live Arcade. But that’s not all, Lucas Arts have also tasked Telltale Games with continuing the Monkey Island series via Tales of Monkey Island, a...
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Transformers 2

Posted on Jul 1, 2009 in Movies I went to see Transformers 2 last Sunday in the BFI IMAX (the biggest screen in Brittain). The movie takes place two years after the first one and Sam, the main character is going a way to college when he is once more dragged into the never ending war between the Autobots and the Decepticons. The story is pretty trivial Michael Bay non-sense and there are a whole lot plot holes and just generally...
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