Mark Charan Newton

In case you haven’t seen it yet. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video And for comparison, here’s the original – one of the rare examples of a film version totally outclassing the original book. What? It totally did. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube [...]

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From the constantly hilarious Onion: Describing himself as “terribly exhausted,” famed linguist and political dissident Noam Chomsky said Monday that he was taking a break from combating the hegemony of the American imperialist machine to try and take it easy for once. “I just want to lie in a hammock and have a nice relaxing [...]

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Oh, Knightmare was so good. And people say nothing useful happened in 1990s (apart from Thatcher’s downfall). If they ever brought this back I would die with giddiness, although if Brian Blessed was not crowbarred into it somehow I’d be emailing someone every hour to complain. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view [...]

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From Wired magazine: Dante’s Inferno proves it: Classic literature is a videogame gold mine. Now that Electronic Arts is finished reimagining Dante Alighieri’s epic poem as an Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 adventure through the circles of hell, the development team’s going to need to find inspiration in other classic literary works. Game|Life would like [...]

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Life keeps getting in the way of interesting bloggage. But there will be UK paperback cover art forthcoming – just a few little tweaks to finalise, and we’re done. It is hugely different to the other covers, and I can tell it will divide opinion, but that’s all part of the fun, right? Right. I’ll [...]

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Cool/very geeky comparison of Arial and Helvetica. I’m totally a Helvetica man – you just need to know is that Arial is a Microsoft rip-off of Helvetica and we’re done with the discussion. While we’re on the subject of fonts, I’ve always found it interesting how film director Wes Anderson (Rushmore, Royal Tenembaums), uses a [...]

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A time-waster of the top ten literary insults. Faulkner: “[Hemingway] has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.” Hemingway: “Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?” Share:

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Someone told me that my bios are far too minimal, so I’ve updated one with some random crap (including the caravan incident) if you are particularly bored. Also, watch this space, because I should, within the next month or two, have an shiny new website courtesy of the web guru at Sevenoak Design. It will [...]

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I do words, but I think pictures do this pub more justice. Share:

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I like cricket. At one point, deep in my youth, I was playing four games a week. I was Malmesbury Cricket Club Under 15s Players’ Player Of the Year (about 13 years ago – to this day, probably the only trophy I’ve ever won). I once opened batting for the district (lord knows why, I always [...]

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It’s comic-tastic for this month’s spending spree. Ex Machina Volume 1, by Brian K Vaughan and Tony Harris. Daredevil: The Devil, Inside And Out by Ed Brubaker and Michael Lark. The Authority: Relentless by Ellis, Hitch, Nerry & Depuy. But I’m also reading The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco. Anyone else reading something [...]

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I saw this Emergency and Disaster map ages ago. You know how you fantasy fans like your maps; well this one displays all sorts of hazards, plotted on a global scale, for the morbidly curious. From biohazards to earthquakes, it’s actually quite interesting, once you get over the paranoia of how fragile things are. Share:

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