via Damien, Lidl Treats is a ridiculously useful site that blogs the tastier bits and pieces your can pick up at Lidl. The site’s focus is mostly on food at the moment but it would be cool to see it branch out into things like washing powders, shampoos, booze etc. too. I really like the design, and the tag cloud is done well.
PS. My personal reccomendations would be Aldi gammon steaks, which keep for absolutely ages in your fridge, and their Black Forest ham.
In the run-up to The Dark Knight next week (or later today, if you’re lucky ol’ me), you now have something to look forward to in August too; a six part anime series entitled Batman: Gotham Knight. The series will apparently ‘tie’ Batman Begins and The Dark Knight together, much in the same way that The Animatrix linked the first Matrix movie and Reloaded. You couldn’t really ask for better filler. I loved The Animatrix.
If this turns out to be anywhere near as good as the Emmy award-winning Batman: The Animated series then I will be tres joyeaux.
Chapter-by-Chapter Synopsis
In “Have I Got a Story for You,” Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Josh Olson (“A History of Violence”) tells the story of how chance encounters with Batman by a group of youngsters leave each kid with a very different impression of the Dark Knight.
In “Crossfire,” acclaimed novelist/comics writer Greg Rucka tells the story of Gotham City police having to get over their distrust of Batman – while under fire from the mob.
In “Field Test,” writer Jordan Goldberg showcases the incredible high-tech arsenal Batman commands and reveals that there are some things even Batman won’t do in his pursuit of justice.
“In Darkness Dwells” takes Batman into the Gotham sewers to face “Killer Croc,” a deformed thug who seems even more monstrous after the Scarecrow, and his fear toxin, makes a resurgence, in a story by David S. Goyer, co-screenwriter of “Batman Begins.”
Award-winning comics writer Brian Azzarello explores an early chapter of Bruce Wayne’s training in “Working Through Pain,” showing how a mysterious and exotic Indian woman named Cassandra introduced Batman to techniques that would help him to conquer the physical and spiritual consequences of what he does.
Finally, in “Deadshot,” four-time Emmy Award-winning writer Alan Burnett ties together threads from all the Batman Gotham Knight chapters, as Batman must thwart an unerring assassin whose love of guns and disregard for human life lets him cross lines that even a Dark Knight shies away from.
In light of the awesome new Watchmen trailer, here is all 4 parts of the 1987 documentary Alan Moore - Monsters, Maniacs and Moore, courtesy of YouTube. See? He’s not that scary after all!
These toolbags are called brokenCYDE. They’re from New Mexico. Their music falls into the ’so bad it will make you want to stick knitting needles into your eardrums’ bad. You have never heard garbage like this before, so in that respect, I guess it’s original. Check out their song ‘BREE BREE’ on their myfail page. It’s somehow based on a pig, or ham or something.
Great interview by Eoin Sweeney for the Dave Fanning show. Comic book legend Alan Moore, author of V for Vendetta, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and Watchmen discusses his upcoming graphic novel ‘Lost Girls’ on RTÉ Radio 1.
Additionally, he says (and I shit you not): “There’s another agenda to microchip the planet. With these chips inside our bodies, they (governments) have the potential to manipulate us, emotionally, physically and mentally. It may sound like science fiction, but that’s what I and other people think the ultimate agenda is. It’s got to be stopped.”
Jim, you might want to read a *real* medical journal (and not one from consiparacyarchive.org) and realise how little we actually know about the human brain. You are reading crackpot theories and interpreting them as medical fact. Good luck with your campaign. You might want to look into getting yourself some new PR.
Posted on reddit this morning, apparently rap is becoming huge in Iran and these guys are at the forefront. Expect to hear this in the next GTA / Need for Speed game. Better than 99% of the crap being churned out in the States. Enjoy:
James Houston recreates Radiohead’s ‘Nude’ from their awesome album In Rainbows using a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, an oscillioscope, a dot matrix printer, a scanner and a speaker made out of freakin’ hard drives. It’s just… amazing. Cheers for the link, Seb
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