Skyfall trailer

The trailer for the new James Bond film Skyfall looks totally awesome. Hopefully the movie itself will be that good.

Garbage - Blood for Poppies

Garbage are back with a awesome new video and a whole new album. Sweet!!

Homer's evolution

Darwin's theory of evolution as illustrated by The Simpsons... priceless. Not exactly what you'd call intelligent design either... in passing one ought to correct this blatant inaccuracy where Homer the reptile evolves into Homer the rodent: this is impossible since both classes branched out separately in the tree of life. But I suppose this was never meant to be scientifically accurate...

The latest spark of genius from cartoonist Steve Bell. Really funny and totally spot-on as usual...

Henri the French philosopher cat

Thanks to blogger Dan Lyons aka Fake Steve Jobs for pointing that one out... it just made my day.

Free lunch

As of this week France has a new president and he is Mr Normal. Sure enough, normal beats the megalomaniac and generally awful character of his predecessor. However, France might need a bit better than the average joe to sort itself and the eurozone out of its deep difficulties. My take on our new president: he is a demagogue who will most likely be unable to hold his promises and the French will be once again disappointed in five years. Unfortunately the only political alternative by then may well be Ms Le Pen, which is not very reassuring. As usual the cartoonists are giving us the best analysis of the situation... funny always wins!

Cardboard on rubber

The latest gem from The Guardian's Steve Bell. Where does he get all these ideas?? Always like the eyes...

R.I.P., Adam 'MCA' Yauch

Now this is real bad news: Adam 'MCA' Yauch of The Beastie Boys has died of cancer at the age of 47. This is so unfair. Why don't Kim Jong-un, half the Communist party of China and George Bush die of cancer? why do the good guys have to go first? at least the good news is, it looks like Hugo Chavez is practically a goner-thanks to cancer. But MCA? f**k man, this is really terrible!!

Feliz cinco de Mayo

Happy cinco de Mayo to all! Remember this is about partying, good food, nice ladies in colorful wardrobe, sunshine and generally a good time. All things that are completely lacking here in Britain. We love you, Mexico!

Burning like hell

This journalist asked the scientists at CERN what would happen if he put his hand into the path of the accelerator's proton beam. I won't spoil the full answer for you but let's just say it might hurt. A lot. In fact proton beams are now used to treat cancerous tumors in people's brains and lungs, a medical procedure known as hadron therapy. Other improved versions of the method involve shooting carbon nuclei at the target tumor to burn it instantly. So not such a silly question after all...