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Stiff upperlips ? Not quite. In the UK, there’s actually a term called “binge drinking” which officially means, any drinking session which involves the consumption of at least eight units of alcohol, if you are a man, or six, if you are a woman.
A new report shows the combined costs of alcohol-related crime and disorder, health problems, lost productivity and domestic break-up have been estimated as approaching £20 billion a year. There are an estimated 1.2 million incidents of alcohol-related violence, and 85,000 incidents of drink-driving a year. Drink accounts for one in 26 NHS “bed-days”, and up to 17 million working days are lost annually through alcohol abuse.
Other reports say this estimate is conservative, to say the least.
Well, have another beer, it’s on me.
Source: BBC News

Having seen the second episode already, I can conclude that we actually are seeing some kind of improvement (of course, being so bad in the first place, improvement is the only thing possible). The main focus shifts from the hour long non-memorable episodes to a new big story arch with much more at stake. This helps highten the tension, and even some of the characters get more depth this way, albeit it’s almost microscopical. While other new elements are put into this season (exploiting T’Pol’s sex appeal for instance), the special effects have suffered, maybe due to budget. The 3D effects look cheasier every time, and even texturing and simple bumpmapping seem like too much trouble. Let’s see how things unfold after ten more episodes.

A blonde this time. Take a look at this and this. It’s January Jones, playing Cadence, sister of Alyson Hannigan’s character in American Wedding. Next picture up is Dirty Dancing sequel Havana Nights. More pictures here.

While the first few minutes feels contrived, and therefor a bit grim, and you start turfing the good and the bad jokes, it later comes together like the first Pie movie did. Nothing really new, story or joke wise, but it still entertaining.7+.

While it’s definitely sure the Ben Affleck/Jennifer Lopez wedding is off, there’s still the conflict off their alleged break-up. News divisions are equally divided over standard R&R, finishing up a movie, to reports of Ben getting cuddly with other brunette females. In any case, it’s understandable. Let’s be honest, would you wanna marry a woman who insured her big set of ass or her big set of brains ?

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Rodriguez’ Desperado follow up, Once Upon a Time in Mexico (opens here 25 Dec), headed for the nr. 1 spot with guns blazing, taking in $24 million. Second was a Nicolas Cage starrer, Matchstick Man, good for $13.3 million. Mostly unknown horror flick starring absolutely nobody notable, is Cabin Fever (opens here, I don’t care), with still a high $8.5 million.

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A team-up movie headed by Sean Connery can be promising, not ? Well, these days, you never know. The story is too simple, and can be guessed by a five-year old. The characters are scraped together and there’s nothing holding them together. They’re not that special, and they are as hollow as they can come. The correct title would have been The League of Very Ordinary and Cliche Gentlemen, because there’s nothing interesting to tell. Furthermore, the movies is just a bunch of fast edited scenes with special effects added that are too obvious special effects. I won’t start with the matter of unbelievability of various aspects of the movie, as they’re too baffling to be discussed.6-.

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Don’t bother calling the Child Abuse Hotline, the intern is older than 18 already.

Well, after almost a whole day offline (my ISP’s ADSL backbone service didn’t work out as they’d wish, I guess), let’s see what kind of disruption it caused to my dear visitors. For all the statistics geeks, this link will take you to my web log statistics of the past few weeks, with all the interesting details like visitors, referrals, browsers and much more ! (Of course, since I myself am the most frequent visitor, I filtered myself out. So, Albi you’re tha best !)

Yesterday, Google had its 5th anniversary. From a garage with roughly 10.000 hits a day, to a growing enterprise with 200 million queries a day. Quite a feat, you might say, but my analysis is somewhat simpler:
Speed and accuracy – in a time where all the big search engines took tens of seconds to return some shaky results, Google was fast and reliable.
Marketing – A very useful toolbar came standard with the earliest version of Opera. A toolbar for Internet Explorer was easy to download and use as well. Big sites (like CNN) feature a “powered by Google” search button.
And last but not least, the name – “Can you altavista this and that for me ?” doesn’t sound quite as catchy, does it ?

(also, use the statistics link above this article to see google is really the best)

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A very very quiet week at the box office as the stupidly named low budget laffer Dicky Roberts: Former Child Star (opens here 29 Jan) opened with a meagre $7 million. 2nd place was last weeks winner Jeepers Creepers 2 with a well deserved 66% drop to $6.7 million. Third was Pirates, still sailing well with $5.5 million, and beating The Matrix Reloaded (totalling $280 million) for 2nd place this year with $282 million.
Opening on nr. 6, is Heath Ledger starring in a horror flick called The Order (opens here 23 Oct), bringing in only $4.3 million. This proves looks will get you anywhere, but not for long. Time to start auditioning a lot dude !