Month: January 2008
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Move Review: National Treasure: Book of Secrets
[*National Treasure: Book of Secrets*](http://www.us.imdb.com/title/tt0465234/). Directed by Jon Turteltaub. Starring Nicolas Cage, Justin Bartha, Diane Kruger, Jon Voight, Helen Mirren and Ed Harris. Treasure hunter Ben Gates (Cage) sets off on a new hunt, this time looking for proof that his ancestor was not involved in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. With only a page…
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Improving the Olympics
[What’s the natural equilibrium point for steroid use in sports](http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/dec/14/marksspencer.europe?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront). Personally I’m strongly in favour of allowing all drugs. The athletes are going to risk their lives anyway, and think of the spinoff benefits from the drug development by the really big companies like Merck and Pfizer.
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Coming Soon: The Signal
[Another complex, confusing film](http://www.apple.com/trailers/magnolia/thesignal/trailer/). Looks great. I love films you come out of going ‘what on earth did that mean?’.
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Great moments in Australian policy
[In the 1920s Australian radios had to be locked to a single frequency](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/04/australian-drm-from.html). Of course, arguably some of the current policies about DRM are just as silly.
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Another sky high top ten
[The best astronomy pictures of 2007](http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/12/13/top-ten-astronomy-pictures-of-2007/). There’s a lot of universe out there. It’d be nice to go visit it from a bit closer.
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Classic movie reviews
[A collection of reviews from Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel](http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/buenavista/ebertandroeper/balcony.html). An enormous collection. A lot of fun to see the take on some of the classic films. They got *The Shawshank Redemption* right.
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Movie Review: Hitman
[*Hitman*](http://www.us.imdb.com/title/tt0465494/) Directed by Xavier Gans. Starring Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, Robert Knepper and Ulrich Thomsen. A mysterious, powerful organisation (known only as “The Organisation”) has created a series of genetically engineered super-assasins. Trained from birth, they are killing machines who complete the contracts the organisation takes from outside. The best agent, known only…
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GoogleEarth bible edition
[God’s Eye View](http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/the-bible-according-to-google-earth/) – satellite images of biblical events. Nice series of four pictures, but there are lots more you could do – walls of Jericho, David & Goliath, Sodom & Gomorrah. Could be quite a fun project.
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Coming Soon: Charlie Wilson’s War
[“The true story of how a playboy congressman, a renegade CIA agent and a beautiful Houston socialite joined forces to lead the largest and most successful covert operation in history.”](http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/charliewilsonswar/) Looks like a really entertaining film, I’m looking forward to it.
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Great moments in Sub Judice
[The SMH stretches the limits of ‘not identifying’](http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/lawyer-remanded-in-custody/2007/12/28/1198778665451.html?s_cid=rss_news). This is, in my mind, complete contempt of court. You either have a rule that really prevents identification or you don’t. No sensible person could possibly fail to make the correct identification of the suspect from that story, so long as they’d been reading [the SMH earlier…