NES Dragon’s Lair

Posted on Jul 4, 2009 in Games I’m sure that anyone who has had at least and inkling of interest in consoles at one time or another through out the last twenty years must at least have heard of Dragon’s Lair at least ones. There have been literally dozens of versions of the Dragon’s Lair games but recently someone dug up the old Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) version and proclaimed it as one of the...
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Article of the week (27/2009): Goldman Sachs: The Great American Bubble Machine

Posted on Jul 3, 2009 in Finance This week’s article is Goldman Sachs: The Great American Bubble Machine by Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stones magazine (Grab PDF HERE). Following is a small excerpt: The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere. The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into...
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Monkey Island SE & Tales of Monkey Island

Posted on Jul 2, 2009 in Games This post is specifically for all point and click adventure games who have somehow missed the news that the original Monkey Island is being re-released as a Special Edition with redrawn graphics and voiceovers this summer for PC and X-Box Live Arcade. But that’s not all, Lucas Arts have also tasked Telltale Games with continuing the Monkey Island series via Tales of Monkey Island, a...
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Transformers 2

Posted on Jul 1, 2009 in Movies I went to see Transformers 2 last Sunday in the BFI IMAX (the biggest screen in Brittain). The movie takes place two years after the first one and Sam, the main character is going a way to college when he is once more dragged into the never ending war between the Autobots and the Decepticons. The story is pretty trivial Michael Bay non-sense and there are a whole lot plot holes and just generally...
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Article of the week (26/2009): The Science of Economic Bubbles and Busts

Posted on Jun 27, 2009 in Finance This week’s article is The Science of Economic Bubbles and Busts by Gary Stix. Following is a small excerpt: It has all the makings of a classic B movie scene. A gunman puts a pistol to the victim’s forehead, and the screen fades to black before a loud bang is heard. A forensic specialist who traces the bullet’s trajectory would see it traversing the brain’s prefrontal cortex—a central...
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Article of the week (25/2009): Have stock markets run away from reality?

Posted on Jun 19, 2009 in Finance This week’s article is Have stock markets run away from reality? by Prieur du Plessis. Following is a small excerpt: The predictions of the members of the Barron’s mid-year Roundtable discussion over the weekend were in agreement that the March lows of the stock markets would not be broken. This reminded me of one of the famous “Investment Rules” of Bob Farrell, legendary former chief...
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