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Wall-E + Lego = Awesome

September 24, 2008 | Links

I love Wall-E, and I love Lego (in paticular Robot Lego) so seeing Wall-E recreated in Lego was music to my senses.

I should probably point out that this was not made by me, and is not available for sale (which is a shame - I’d buy it!). It was actually built by Bazmarc from the Trossen Robotics Community Forums. It made my day!

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

September 19, 2008 | Reviews, Movies

Star Wars: The Clone Wars is a 3d animated cartoon, featuring all your favorite characters from the prequel trilogy, and some of your faves from the original trilogy.

I got to see Star Wars: The Clone Wars last weekend and quite enjoyed it. The film takes place during the Clone Wars, a period of unrest chronologically placed between the second and third prequel movie.

The film is a full blown 3d animated adventure with lots of action and a couple of laughs. The story is a little weak - Anakin is sent to rescue Jabba the huts kidnapped offspring from a bunch of bounty hunters. Like the Star Wars movies, The Clone Wars has planet hopping tendencies - lots of travelling back and forth. There are also lots of references to the real life films, and with George in the credits - I think we can take this as cannon.

There are …

Sumo at Miniclip

September 6, 2008 | Links

I mentioned the awesome Sumo bean bags the other day and, when talking to Andrew from Sumo, mentioned I work at Miniclip… and now they’ve sent us some free bean bags at work too!

You can see the photos on the Sumo gallery.

Chrome - first thoughts

September 3, 2008 | General

Yesterday Google released Chrome, a brand new web browser onto an unsuspecting internet. You’ve probably been inundated with all sorts of opinions and views on it, but I’m going to give me tuppence as well.

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