Posts Tagged ‘the telegraph’

Afternoon Dubloons – Links In Brief(s).

    Empire Magazine lifts the lid on some more details surrounding the 24 movie which will be a full day in two hours – (Empire Magazine) Lovefilm generously plans out all the movies you’ll want to see in the next twelve months – (Lovefilm) Things have just become way too commercial on Tatooine – [...]

New Zealand Has Giant Insects.

Not content with gaining the official title of ‘Home of Rugby‘ earlier this year, (albeit by just one point), New Zealand have gone and secured themselves the denomination of  ’Home of the World’s Largest Insect.’ This amazing picture was taken by adventurer Mark Moffett, a man who National Geographic described as: “the Indiana Jones of Entomology,” after [...]

Morning Links In Brief(s).

Scottish comedian Limmy comes under fire from Tory MP Louise Mensch for his Thatcher comments on Twitter, (Mensch is the same MP who’s in favour of fox hunting and wants to shut down Twitter and Facebook at the slightest hint of social unrest) – (Telegraph) We love this story. The guy who runs I Heart [...]

De Niro To Play Bernie Madoff

The Telegraph is reporting that Hollywood actor Robert De Niro has been slated to star in a movie about Wall St swindler and convicted fraudster Bernie Madoff, a man who cheated thousands of investors in his Ponzi scheme out of a collective $50bn. This is wrong on so many levels, for one there are umpteen [...]

Morning Links In Brief(s)

Cigarette free Obama warns Iran not to fuck him around today – (The Daily Mash) Want to know what the Hidden Wiki is all about? We did and now we wish we didn’t – (The Telegraph) A wonderful piss-take vigil for the demise of Kim Kardashian’s marriage – (Buzz Feed) Woman in coma after being [...]

Doomsday Trader Who Shocked The BBC Is Just An Attention Seeker.

If you missed this story and the subsequent kerfuffle it caused over the last few days then here’s the abridged version: BBC News 24 interviewed an independent stock trader by the name of Alessio Rastani, who in just three minutes shocked the nation with his frankness about the current state of the global markets and [...]

Vultures To Be Trained By Police To Find Dead Bodies.

We were gathered on the main deck the other night watching an old Western film, the main protagonist was looking for his friend in a canyon when he suddenly spots a group of circling vultures in the distance, cue discovery of his friend’s dead body. At the time we discussed at some length, (with the [...]