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[Come and See]

Two Russian films on dvd: Come and See followed by Battleship Potemkin.

Are you looking for another reason to hate Margaret Thatcher? How about her plans to remove the British welfare system completely?

It may be the holidays but the scumbags keep on scumming:

Timbuktu mausoleums 'destroyed'

Therecent issue of New Internationalist had an article about a lot if the recent upheaval in Mali has been fueled by the Americans....

It's going to be a bit crazy over the next few days so I'll wish them now while I have the chance. Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year fellow boarders! 

I'm curious about how this series seems to be trying to introduce a new original character in the framework of the Liberty Files universe. I'm curious about what the plan for the Whistling Skull actually is.

IIRC this was meant to be a mini-series published under Wildstorm like Silent Dragon, Killapalooza et al. and they rewrote it into DCU continuity after Wildstorm was killed off.

['everyone']

Is it too soon to post 'everyone'? Should i wait three more days?

NASA released a "world didn't end" video on December the 13th which they were only meant to release it on the 22nd so it's ok to be early I guess.

Paralysed woman's thoughts control robotic arm

I'm worried that Tord... Big Ole Bazza (what is with all the name changin' lately? Are we all hiding from Big Brother?) can even remember that. But yeah Ram Raiders wasn't terrible at all. Looked great at time to.

Here's the evidence.

http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,25160.0.html

You are not alone.

Welcome aboard, have fun.

That thread only has one reply in it...was anybody reading 2000AD at time? 

What I should have fully said is comparing tragedies in shorts bursts of social media chatter like twitter (where I saw the comparison) to bring a point across might not be a good idea of putting a point across, some people might it offensive. Apologies if I offended you blackmocco.

Oddly, in the latest episode of The Big Bang Theory today, one of the characters (I forget his name. The curly one with glasses) explains the idea that we might all be holograms. Not quite the same thing as this idea, and probably a load rubbish but.. I'll admit... it was quite interesting. I know it's a comedy show, but it wasn't playing this as a gag, and I'm sure (although I haven't researched it) it's based on an actual theory. It's certainly familiar. I know I read something about it before...

It came up in this episode of Horizon. They are probably better episodes explaining it but I remember it the most because the Physicist behind the theory has a near meltdown when the interviewer says "I think I understand it..." and he goes something like "No! You can't understand it! I don't fully understand it myself!" (if I remember it right).

Testing to see if the entire universe is a computer simulation

I picked up the re-release of the acclaimed Nuggets anthology. Maybe a bit over-rated but some pretty good tunes on it. (If you want to splash out, there was a bigger version released years ago, 4 cd box set)

[stabbed]

Adrian Bamforth posted in the RIP thread how irksome facebook activism can be even when he agrees with the cause. This got me thinking about a recent incident in China, where a man went on a stabbing spree in a school, 22 children injured, none killed (China has had a rash of stabbing sprees in recent years). People are looking at this, saying this is an example of how a tragedy like what recently happened in America can be prevented with tighter gun control. 22 children got stabbed, two seriously injured and that's just physical injury, don't think they should be using this as a example.

Sorry Joe Soap, I missed your post where you mentioned Simon as the artist... 

[Simon Coleby]

I see Simon Coleby listed as the artist for Judge Dredd Year One #1 according to the solicitations.