In case you haven’t seen it this is a clip from a Uruguaian home-made Sci-Fi movie which cost just US $300 to make.   Hollywood producers liked it so much they are reported to have  offered the movie’s producer Fede Alvarez a US $30,000,000  deal to make a full-length sci-fi thriller.   Looks great in full screen [...]

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Apologies up front, unless you work on the GIS business this post is a bit of an in-joke . If you DO work in the GIS business I suspect at the very least this could raise a smile unless you are prudish…zzzz.   This is a real book you can buy from Amazon and is [...]

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Spotted this little puppy via Tim Verpoorten’s excellent MacReviewCast podcast: A free iPod Touch/iPhone game every day almost until (almost)  Xmas – the app-a-day advent calendar. I am unable to offer reviews yet of the quality of these apps yet as they are untested here but as this stuff is free it’s not like you [...]

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Just spent a few days getting some “Winter rays” on the Island of Fuerteventura where it seems to be around 25 degrees even in December and a litre of the local brandy is 7€ a litre… Anyhoo, the choice of TV in out apartment is a tad limited, the obligatory BBC World, CNN, CNBC and [...]

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