Celebrating its 25th anniversary year, the popular British television soap opera Eastenders on six gongs at the inside soap awards. The program which is aired on BBC1 got the awards for Best show, and actress Lacey Turner, who plays the character of Stacey Branning achieved her fifth continuous win as Best Actress. Charlie Clements who [...]
There’s no doubting it anymore: British TV is miles ahead of American TV. A show over there called, quite descriptively, “ The Gadget Show ,” pit a proper solider against the Xbox 360 controller-wielding host in a little Modern Warfare 2 showdown. I insist that you watch it .
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Watch out, Nicholas writing about cars, there’s bound to be errors! (No different from anything else, really.) It’s the McLaren MP4-12C , a £150,000 ($225,000) supercar that McLaren is actually positioning as “affordable.” I mean, an Xbox 360 Arcade SKU is “affordable,” maybe even a fancy gaming mouse when you consider what they do… Oh, I know who would consider this supercar affordable: people who play for Manchester City . The British supercar made its fancy debut yesterday, surrounded by Formula One drivers Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button. Supposedly it’s the UK’s answer to the Ferrari 458—Italian, of course. It can go 0 to 60mph in 3.4 seconds. I believe that’s an impressive number. The exterior is one single piece of carbon fiber. That’s the new “cool” material, right, carbon fiber? You hear about it all the time on Top Gear. There’s no video of it in action, unfortunately. Someone call The Stig, or Matt. Whoever’s available.
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There’s a certain amount of pride in seeing a country pump out something like the new F-35B Lightning II fighter jet. At $113.5 million per aircraft, it’s about as far away from the meaning of the word “inexpensive” as possible. It makes you think, well, if we can afford things like that , why can’t we afford things like this ? But, whatever. The entire purpose of this post is to watch a legitimately exciting video. So, let’s! The very first test flight of the aircraft happened yesterday , and lasted 14 minutes long. (Yes, there’s a certain irony in finding out about the latest American military technology in the British press.) That works out to $8.1 million per minute in the air. Granted, that’s a horrible way of looking at the aircraft, but it’s a fun stat nonetheless. The F-35B Lightning II has been in development since 2001, and it was originally promoted as an affordable option to keeping old birds like the F-16 and F-10A in the air. The marines will start using the jet, if all goes according to plan, in December, 2012. And now I’m off to play Battlefield: Bad Company 2 , using more terribly expensive weapons to beat up Kirilenko .
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Tim Burton’s upcoming Alice in Wonderland movie is getting even us excited . But let’s turn back time 107 years for a second to watch the first Alice in Wonderland movie ever made. This version from 1903 ( imdb entry ), recently restored by the British Film Institute, isn’t even 10 minutes long, but it’s pretty cool, especially when you consider when the movie was filmed. And even though the film is from 1903, when most people didn’t even know what a film is, it contains a few creative “special effects”. But Avatar would have given people back then a heart attack probably. Here’s the movie: Via Sci-Fi Wire
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