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Sun 28 May 2006

Big Brother’s voice lie detector

Posted by Steven under australia, tv/movies/media
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For those watching BB06 on Australian TV you’ll be seeing the housemates put through a voice based lie detector….

Apparently, its 90% accurate according to Gretal.

But the American Polygraph Association begs to differ

The common theme: Chance-level detection of stress. Chance-level detection of lies.

 

Mon 6 Feb 2006

Keep on training Sydney…

Posted by Steven under australia, life, tv/movies/media
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Ah, another day, another exquisite trip with Cityrail

I was greeted at the door of my train by my personal hostess, who escorted me to my seat and supplied me with a freshly squeezed fruit juice. What I love about the evening trains is the in-trip movies - full dolby surround sound, free popcorn and complimentary foot massages.

Tomorrow I’ll be in the breakfast carriage, fresh muffins and hot coffee here I come! Okay, maybe not, maybe it was more like this:

  • Train two carriages short.
  • Had to sit in the aisle
  • Watched a bad movie on my laptop (’God’s and Generals’)
  • Sore butt / leg cramps
  • Got a seat after 1hr 20min
  • Home 30 minutes late

Hurrah for public transport! Down with cars!

 

Sun 5 Feb 2006

Movies (this weekend)

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Well, this weekend was a bit of a movie weekend, a bit of an eclectic bunch really:

Must Love Dogs Rating: 2/5

Downfall

Rating 5/5 (Although likely to be an acquired taste!)

De-Lovely

Rating 5/5

God’s and Generals

Rating: 1/5

What an appalling film.

Slow, historically questionable, badly acted(or at least, directed badly), appallingly written, scored like a hallmark card.

The most enjoyable portion is the opening credits.  And perhaps the battle scenes, where, for the most part, they stop talking!

I didn’t see the end, my laptop battery gave out.  Small mercies…

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I started writing reviews of all these films, but it struck me, I’m really not very good at it tonight, and rather than my ramblings, I’ll keep it short!

P.S. I’m getting VERY frustrated with WordPresses HTML formatting of posts…. whitespace! keep the whitespace!

 

Sun 15 Jan 2006

I want a talking boony…

Posted by Steven under Uncategorized, tv/movies/media
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The three worst things about wanting a talking boony however.

  1. You have to potentially drink a carton of VB; not something I feel like doing, VB is a ‘pub only’ beer for me, and even then, only when attempting to get drunk very cheaply
  2. Their website is IE only… it doesn’t work in Firefox.
  3. They’ve apparently sold out :(