A History of Power Rangers
I know I’m showing my geek roots here, but it’s time to come clean. I was a Super Sentai fan. -_- There, I said it. It’s out...
Hidden Talents
One of the great things about Youtube is that it’s a mini American’s Got Talent of sorts, where all sorts of interesting abilities people have can be...
The Infoladies of Bangladesh
In a place where women dutifully give birth in dingy huts, the men know of little outside their fields, and the world revolves around the local mosque;...
Nollywood Calling
Nollywood, Nigeria’s booming film industry, is the world’s third largest producer of feature films. Unlike Hollywood and Bollywood, however, Nollywood movies are made on shoe-string budgets of...
WuXia versus Kung Fu
Recently I’ve been watching a lot old Shaw Brothers Kung Fu movies on Youtube, and it occurred to me that from the point of view of someone...
Genre Fiction Generator 2000
Care of David Ault and Fiona Thraille comes the solution to all your plotting needs! Stuck on what to write, dear friend? Never fear! The Genre Fiction...
John Williams- Musical Plagerist?
So there I am in church for the Mother’s Day service, and we start singing a beautiful hymn called “I, the Lord of Sea and Sky” (aka...
Random things I learned at Podcamp London 2010
Here are some random things I learned while attending the very cool Podcamp London today: Search.Twitter.com can be used to find people with similar interests in your...
North Korean Humour
Kim Jong Il and Vladimir Putin are having a summit meeting in Moscow. During a break, they’re bored, and they decide to take a bet to see...
A bas les aristos!
I recently read The Scarlet Pimpernel (text, audio, movie) by Baroness Orczy, and ran into a bit of an interesting philosophical quandry while I was reading it....