Quantum of Solace

Thats the newly confirmed title of Bond's 22nd outing due to be released in November 2008. Daniel Craig returns as bond follows on from loosing all the money at Casino Royale. The producers promise twice as much action as the last film which is good really because Royale was probably my least favourite of the modern (since Goldeneye) bond films. It was still a good watch but the plot was abit hollow (essentially evolved around winning money at a casino) and the ending (what ending???) was frankly terrible!

In other news this week, the BBC website reported that a modern depiction of "The Three Little Pigs" could be offensive and racist! The story evolves around 3 "cowboy builder" pigs who build there own houses - you know what happens. Aparently, it could offend the muslim/asian community as the idea of "pigs building houses is a slap in the face". I'm sorry but if your going to be so politically correct, we may aswell live in a communist global regime where everyone eats carrots, wears bright orange jail suits with no individualism what so ever and boycott that Hush Puppies toilet roll incase it offends the Cantonese! Thanks to Matt for pointing this story out.

And another fairly typically aussie story. A teenager from Melbourne recently got arrested for causing criminal damage at his parents home after inviting 500 people via myspace to a party at his house. It caused some £15000 worth of damage and his parents are predictably, not best impressed. Well, he didn't stop there. The 16 year old is now organising a "party tour" of western Australia with dates in Sydney and Brisbane, this time the parties are legal (although im not sure about the drinking). The kid has been idolised by some youths in Australia but condemned as an "arrogant brat" by everyone else. He's billed as Australia's Paris Hilton which, i think for a 16 year old lad, is the most embarrasing synonym possible. He even has a "slap correy down the street" website set up by some people who dont like him. 714,993 people have slapped him! Heres the website, try yourself - www.slapcorey.com. My record is 245m so far! Its silly but addictive and could be the answer to come of our chav problems in the UK. The creators are promising a new version where you can upload your own photos and slap whoever you want.

Anyway, ive got to get reading. My Active Tectonics lecturer is the world famous George Davis (no, honestly, he is world renown!). He's a great guy but had this wonderful idea that our reading list should be 170 papers long which works out at ~12 a week.
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