Alea jacta est, and now the Latin jokes in Asterix will make sense

Monday, 20 May, 2013

Now those of us who know little to no Latin can make sense of the the Latin jokes that feature throughout the Asterix comic books, thanks to the efforts of Andrew Girardin, who has recently been translating them into English.

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Marie Antoinette, and others, as they might look today

Wednesday, 15 May, 2013

Marie Antoinette

How might people such as William Shakespeare, Admiral Lord Nelson, and Queen Elizabeth I, look if they walked amongst us today?

Nelson is probably about right, not sure about Shakespeare though. Marie Antoinette, above, however doesn’t differ too greatly from Sofia Coppola’s 2006 film depiction of the ill-fated French queen.

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Only Spock could possibly drive two cars at the same time

Tuesday, 14 May, 2013

I don’t usually link to car adverts, but an exception ought to be made in this instance, as both Leonard Nimoy, and Zachary Quinto, who do, or have, played Spock on “Star Trek”, reunite once more onscreen.

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Who reviews the reviewers? Could it be a flowchart?

Friday, 10 May, 2013

With people offering reviews of the prisons they spent time in, it can’t be said we’re short of advice and information when deciding where to make a hotel, restaurant, or whatever, booking. But how impartial, and accurate, are the write-ups published on online review websites anyway?

This flowchart then should help you decide what level of credence to assign to these reviews.

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There’s chess, then there’s real chess

Thursday, 9 May, 2013

I always knew I was doing something wrong when playing chess… hopefully this helpful guide to real chess will improve your game also.

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Daniel Day-Lewis tops Lincoln portrayal in Spielberg’s “Obama”

Tuesday, 7 May, 2013

In case you still doubt the ability of Daniel Day-Lewis to literally become the characters he portrays, check out his performance as current US President Barack Obama, in this preview of Obama, Steven Spielberg’s follow up to Lincoln.

Now if that’s not an award winning portrayal, I really don’t know what is…

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I suspect you didn’t know to properly eat an apple up until now

Monday, 6 May, 2013

Ok, so now you know how to evenly and equally divide up a pizza, but do you know how to eat an apple properly… I suspect you didn’t until now.

One question though, er, won’t an apple tree start growing in our stomachs if we eat apples the “proper” way?

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Pies are not squared, the formula for evenly dividing a pizza

Monday, 6 May, 2013

Everything is mathematical, so it’ll come as no surprise to anyone that there is a formula for cutting up a pizza so that everyone receives, or should receive, an equal portion. I won’t go into the nitty-gritty here, but this is an overview of how it works:

Here’s a procedure that works: [person] A cuts the pizza, [person] B chooses their slice. [person] C has two options: they can either choose one of the remaining two slices, or they can call shenanigans. In the latter case, B picks a second slice then both slices are put together and C divides them into two halves. B picks one half, C gets the other.

It should be noted that maths is not my forte, so if you’re ever dividing pizza with me, make sure I am not person A, as I have ways of being more equal to myself than others…

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A bike with a view, but don’t go looking down or trying to stop

Thursday, 2 May, 2013

At almost four and a half metres in height, the Stoopid Tall bike is a vehicle that requires above average bicycle handling skills to ride.

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To be succinct these two movies have exactly the same plot

Friday, 26 April, 2013

Compress the plots of movies down to ten words, or less, and it becomes all too easy to see just how similar many films are.

For instance, which films does the storyline “a disgraced professional guard proves himself worthy after he becomes the only one who can save a group of hostages” bring to mind?

Paul Blart: Mall Cop, and Olympus Has Fallen, of course.

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