The other day when I decided that I wanted a new book to read, I remembered that I caught a glance at Stephen King’s novel Under The Dome at Borders and it had piqued my interest.  The story of a smalltown in America which inexplicably gets trapped underneath a magical forcefield sounded like just the right amount of gimmicky nonsense ...

I’ve just finished reading Jose Saramago’s Death At Intervals.  I don’t really know what to make of it.  It’s about the strangest thing I’ve read all year and thats including a book that has KFC’s Colonel Sanders appearing as a pimp in Japan. So in Death At Intervals, an unnamed country discovers the complete absense of death one New Years ...

Okay, so Flipboard, a free RSS reader app which came out recently is pretty freakin’ awesome.  I can easily see something like this becoming of the one most popular apps on the iPad. Its a program that can connect to your Facebook and Twitter account and convert the links, images and status updates into a magazine style format.  In essence, ...

There are a lot of ingredients that have to come together for a film to be truly great.  Sometimes a film will come along that blows you away with spectacular visual effects or striking costumes and imagery only to be let down by shoddy characterisation, poor pacing or a clunky script.  For every great ‘effects’ movie that comes along, such ...

The Wire Season 4 & 5, Tickets to the Wallabies vs Springboks (halfway line), Zombieland (BluRay), Super Mario World (1991) and the new Alan Wake book.  All up, a pretty sweet haul for my birthday.  Not to mention a champagne breakfast served up by Jen.

Check out this sweet movie-style trailer for the upcoming election.  Fair shake of the sauce bottle indeed. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qub4lWT6GNk[/youtube]

Half shark, half octopus.  All awesome. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK2bBfuepKk[/youtube]

Lets the mudslinging and oneupsmanship begin!  PM Julia Gillard has confirmed that Australia will go to the polls on August 21st.  Over the next four weeks, we’ll get to talk in-depth about mining tax, emissions trading schemes and asylum seekers.  I AM VERY EXCITE. Both parties are on the move and making some huge powerplays to try and woo voters. ...

Not long now till Frank Darabont’s adaptation of the excellent Walking Dead comic book series makes its way onto TV.  I like the look of the cast in the picture above.  I think they’ve done a pretty good job matching up the actor with the character they’re playing.  I hope it gets picked up for an expansive second season as ...

Universal appeal.