[image title=”brucewii” size=”thumbnail” id=”331″ align=”right” linkto=”https://irrationale.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/brucewii.jpg” ]Next-Gen: Earlier this week, Reggie [Fils-Aime, President of Nintendo America] had talked about getting serious about online. Sure, there are a lot of online gamers using Wi-Fi Connect, but I look at things that Sony and Microsoft are doing with their online programs, where they’re really creating communities and […]
[image title=”lightning_f1_f3″ size=”full” id=”379″ align=”right” linkto=”https://irrationale.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lightning_f1_f3.gif” ]In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the interception of Soviet long-range nuclear bombers was a very worrying topic for Western Military leaders. Models such as the Tupolev Tu-22 were already in development, and could reach Mach 1.5 at 40,000 feet – more than a match for the existing […]
[image title=”limaphoto” size=”thumbnail” id=”382″ align=”right” linkto=”https://irrationale.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/limaphoto.jpg” ]A friend of mine is currently living in Lima, Peru and is working as a freelance journalist. His travels have taken him to some of the most incredible places of the world, but his latest blog brings something new to the table. Peru seems to be a place unto […]
[image title=”the-big-trip-mk2-037″ size=”thumbnail” id=”419″ align=”right” linkto=”https://irrationale.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/the-big-trip-mk2-037.jpg” ]As if one big trip wasn’t enough. A month ago I accepted a promotion which would take me to the wonderful city of Melbourne, Victoria. Once again, I packed everything up, jumped in my car, and drove for about 16 hours to get to Melbourne. On the way I […]
[image title=”theisland” size=”thumbnail” id=”428″ align=”right” linkto=”https://irrationale.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/theisland.jpg” ]What would you do to live forever? Would you clone yourself and harvest the clone for it’s organs once yours started to fail? And how about if that clone was a living, breathing, feeling human being? Well, that’s what “The Island” is all about. Sort of. Think of it […]
[image title=”athfcmfft” size=”thumbnail” id=”334″ align=”right” linkto=”https://irrationale.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/athfcmfft.jpg” ]According to Apple.com, The Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters is an action-adventure epic that tackles the mysterious circumstances that brought Meatwad, Frylock and Master Shake together. An immortal piece of exercise equipment threatens the balance of galactic peace, and it is up to the Aqua […]
[image title=”rumlarge” size=”thumbnail” id=”337″ align=”right” linkto=”https://irrationale.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/rumlarge.jpg” ]I’m a huge fan of the work of the late and great Hunter S. Thompson. For those who don’t know, “The Rum Diary” is an early novel by Thompson that was written in the early 1960’s but was not published until 1998. The story involves a journalist named Paul […]
[image title=”ofelialarge” size=”thumbnail” id=”435″ align=”right” linkto=”https://irrationale.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/ofelialarge.jpg” ]Everyone loves fairy tales. They’re the cornerstone of childhood reading and are fascinating to both the children and the adult who’s reading it to them. Pan’s Labyrinth is a fairy tale, with good and evil duking it out, fantastic creatures and places, and a wonderous main character who learns […]
[image title=”edsr” size=”thumbnail” id=”442″ align=”right” linkto=”https://irrationale.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/edsr.jpg” ]There are dark corners of this earth which remain unexplored, even in our enlightened modern age. In these secluded areas, powerful entities lie in wait. These creatures once roamed the earth, but in ancient times they were trapped into magical prisons from which they can only watch as the […]
Christmas holidays are always a strange time of year. It seems strange that we as modern and educated human beings feel compelled to annually go to the effort of packing a bag, taking time off work and venturing back to our home town to spend time with family members with whom we have little in […]
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