The movie also features a much-welcome return to the screen for Timothy Dalton. Dalton has always been, in our humble opinion, a criminally under-rated actor who has always possesed superb comic timing. Problem is he's never gotten the scripts, or when he did (like in Hawks) it didn't get noticed. Hopefully that'll all change with Pegg and director/writer Edgar Wright utilising him properly. The following is the first in a series of video-blogs that they've released this year covering the making of the movie. For those of you unaware of who they are, well...
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Can anyone out there help us? We'd like to know who is responsible for the remix and who is repsonsible for the animation. Anyone? Bueller? Anyone?
]]>'A THIEF crossed to the dark side when he donned a Darth Vader mask and robbed two Sunshine Coast service stations.
Police said the man, armed with a plastic toy gun, entered the Mobil service station on Noosa Drive at 12.30am on Friday and threatened a male attendant.
But the thief was unable to open the till and left empty handed.
A police spokesman said the Star Wars fan returned nearly three hours later and scanned a packet of chewing gum in order to open the cash register.'
Researchers at the University of Basel first came across a set of extraordinarily large bones three years ago whilst excavating in the El Kowm area, 250km north of the capital Damascus, but were only able to confirm the remains came from a camel once further fragments were found this summer. "We found the first traces of a big animal in 2003, but we were not sure if it was a giant camel," Jean-Marie Le Tensorer, a pre-history professor at the University of Basel, told Reuters. "This is a big discovery, a revolution in science."]]>
In case you've all been in suspended animation over the weekend, North Korea set off a nuclear weapon early this morning, sending seismographs around the world a trembling. This has serious repercussions for all our futures, both an arms race perspective, and from an environmental point of view ( I could argue that everything is an environmental issue, but I don't want to confuse matters).
My colleague, Brian, posted this quote from Rémi Parmentier on our Making Waves blog:
When I read that the North Korean authorities claim that their underground nuclear test has not "resulted in any leak of radiation", what comes immediately to my mind is this photo of the venting of the US Baneberry "underground" test in the Nevada desert in 1970. Greenpeace was the first, in 1981, to leak this now iconic picture; it was Allan Thornton (from Greenpeace at the time) who put his hand on it in Washington DC. Read more: Nuclear test: what should we do? »]]>
Irish publisher Folens has announced that in future Ireland will not be included in the British Isles, The Evening Standard reports.The Register: Ireland exits British Isles »
Oddly enough now, I was only reading this morning, in the original Blather, about the O'Blather's plan to take Ireland out of the British Isles...
]]>The EU's environmental body is reportedly using Dublin as an example of what not to do when it comes to urban planning.]]>Reports this morning say the European Environment Agency has identified Dublin's urban sprawl as a "worst-case scenario" in city planning.
It reportedly says "extremely passive" planning policies have also led to undesirable urban sprawl in towns and villages throughout Ireland.
The assessment is contained in a study designed to help new EU member states like Poland avoid making the same mistakes.