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Twitch – Nazi Snow Zombies Go To Sundance! Celebrate With New Trailer!.

Nazi snow zombies? I must see this movie!!

Two British men should not have had their DNA and fingerprints retained by police, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled.

BBC NEWS | UK | DNA database ‘breach of rights’.

The judges said keeping the information “could not be regarded as necessary in a democratic society”.

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said she was “disappointed” by the European Court of Human Rights’ decision.

The database may now have to be scaled back following the unanimous judgement by 17 senior judges from across Europe.

Under present laws, the DNA profiles of everyone arrested for a recordable offence in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are kept on the database, regardless of whether they are charged or convicted.

CornerShot is a special-purpose weapon that can fire around corners. It was designed in the early 2000s for SWAT teams and special forces in hostile situations usually involving terrorists and hostages.

CornerShot – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

As seen in Wanted!

Found Footage: Its Cthulhus Special Holiday Meal [NSFW].

A squamous Thanksgiving to our American cousins!

AICN Exclusive.

I’m not a treckie, trecker or Treck bar, but I surprisingly excited by the new JJ Abrams Star Trek movie. See the trailer in the link…

The Long Tail has just had another run-in with large amounts of real-world data, and again come out the worse for wear. Tens of millions of music transactions were analyzed by economists and the shape of the sales distribution shows no resemblance to the Pareto (or Power) Curve, 1/x^n of the Long Tail, but a near perfect fit with a log normal, exp(-x^2). So can the Long Tail survive?

The Long Fail: Web 2.0’s faith meets the facts • The Register.

Way of the Wreckferret: Kung Fu Panda!.

I was reeling last night from more dentistry so Penny got me Kung Fu Panda as a rental to cheer me up. Unfortunately I didn’t get on with it. The animation felt too harshly false with characters not really looking like they were in the background, but floating on top of it. They were desperate to ram home their message that it doesn’t matter how hard you work, as long as you believe in yourself then you can kick awesome ass, even if you’re the unpopular fat kid.

I’m afraid to say that my favourite part was actually the 2d intro of awesomeness….

So, the owl, his other half and I went to see Monkey perform at the Green Note last night for the ginger-themed Utter spoken word night. It was an open mic slot, with the winner getting a paid gig next month at the finale. And I’m very happy to report that not only was a good time had by all, but our very own Vinnie Gibbons won the night.

So, to the Green Note next month for the final of the Utter Ajar Open Mic competition!

Warren Ellis wrote the following in December 2006, gods bless him:

Since writing this, I have received a note which read in part, “Barak [sic] Obama will not run for Prez. To suggest so means one doesn’t have an understanding of the racial politics in America.” To which I replied, I’m not sure if anyone’s told Obama that yet.

Warren Ellis » Snakepit 2008.

Re-published. It’s still true.