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I was going to try and summarise it but there's a pretty good comparison of the two here. The quick cut synopsis though is that Into Darkness is an insult for anyone who actually likes Star Trek and directed by a man (J J Abrams of course) who publicly said "I never got Star Trek." So that...

I still don't understand why J J Abrams is such a popular director. True I've only seen his Star Wars and Star Trek reboots but after I watched Star Wars looked up his works and thought considerably less when Lost appeared there - I'm amazed that dross even had a producer. Cloverfield was...

Just picture unless it was changed recently. You can't even send messages until both parties have swiped to the right.

Ever since seeing how other people use it I've been keeping well away. I walked in on a friend of a friend watching TV and absent mindedly swiping on their phone which, on closer inspection, turned out to be Tinder. When I asked them about it he said "yeah I just swipe right for like twenty...

Well you wouldn't do it by banning things that you personally dislike or don't agree with. If something is blatantly wrong like geocentrism then you don't need to ban it because an educated population can see it for themselves. However if you ban feminism then you're just getting rid of things...

Mad Max Fury Road: 2/10. Completely devoid of plot, character development, story, stakes, charm, intrigue and point that's full of contradictions which invalidate its own world building but hey, plenty of splosions right? It's essentially two hours of explosions whilst several groups of people...

Thanks Edinburgh, now the BBC electoral map of Scotland is less aesthetically pleasing with your splotch of red in the sea of yellow. I'm finding it satisfying to see the lib-dems get decimated though and hope it's the final proof that the public hates Clegg so he resigns. Wouldn't be...

Yeah it's hard to believe any lib-dem MP got re-elected.

I went to university in Wales and still remember one of the options listed for third year projects under 'linguistic programming' which included the phrase; 'we are interested in hearing from students who are multi-lingual and, in particular, speak obscure languages such as Welsh.' Also I...

When I was looking for a new job recently I came across a lot of these tests. I don't mind the straight forward personality ones if they're relatively short but when it's those pathetic logical, mathematical and verbal reasoning tests I give up. Last time I flat out told my recruiter that I...

Don't think I've ever written a sonnet before so it's probably awful. Think I did a few limericks at school but I managed not to start off with 'there once was a man from Chile...' Theme: forgiveness Enveloping darkness descends upon my day, Entwined in a teeming crowd I have lost me...

Handy to know for the future I guess but it still seems like a weird style to adopt over the phone when you're mostly just trying to get to know the candidate. Not to mention that the job wasn't customer facing at all so I think he probably was just being rude. In the past if I've wound up with...

This might be a bit of a weird question but is it some sort of interview strategy to be deliberately rude? Normally my phone interviews boil down to about twenty minutes with a brief introduction, an overview of the company, job and then some technical or scenario based questions. However this...

I'd settle for getting appreciated a bit more at work rather than putting in time out of hours, at the weekend and staying late most days just to be forgotten the moment something is fixed. It's amazing how, with the exception of one job I had, IT gets forgotten the moment they're no longer...

I read The Scarlet Letter a few years ago but could still talk about it when everyone else is finished. Picked up the Barnes and Noble edition recently as well which always looks great on a bookshelf, if you don't mind spending that bit extra.