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This is not a gif
Believe it or not but this optical illusion is a static image, not an animation.

Underworld
Take The Matrix, cross it with with Blade, and add a dash of The Crow and a smidge of the White Wolf roleplay games and what do you get? The most super shiny, scary, ace blockbuster movie this year. Underworld. Watch the trailer. Grrooowwwlll!

Movie Site
Wow! Doubt that this site will stay up for much longer - tons of new movies streamed straight to your desktop - I just watched the first 5 minutes of XMen2 before I remembered that I had already got the movie on my computer. Obviously you need a fast connection to watch the movies.

Hug your techie
Today is Sysadmin day. Believe me, they work alot harder than you imagine - time to give them some love.

Siggraph 2003
I'm off to sunny California tomorrow, so I thought it deserved a link. Me and 30,000 other arty/techy types will be nerding it up at the world's biggest computer graphics conference, Siggraph, held this year in sunny San Diego. If you're even remotely interested in how they did the fx for The Matrix Reloaded, Lord Of The Rings or are a fan of Pixar and ILM, this is the place for you.
4 whole days of mindblowing imagery, geekery, and of course at least one day of Seaworld!

Titty time
Apparently Cameron Diaz is trying to get an injunction to stop these photos, taken just before her first starring role in 'The Mask', being published. Nothing like shutting the barn door after the horse has bolted, eh? Don't know why she's trying to stop them as she has nothing to be ashamed of judging by these photos. (Caution: NSFW)

ASCII art - the next generation
ASCII art moives, does exactly what it says on the tin.

There seem to be a limit on how many times a day each movie can be watched. So if you can't see one then try another (the skateboard ones were working at time of posting).

Mammoth C64 weekend
If you live in the South of England then get yourself over to Brighton on 13th September for 'Back in Time Live' a mammoth weekend of Commodore 64 fun, the biggest 8-bit rock concert ever held, and a great retro-music-game-exhibition featuring a live performance by Press Play On Tape the insane Danes who play old C64 computer game tunes on real instruments!

Bambi hunt
In my quest for cool places for me to do a team building exercise for my team at work (which consists of just me and no-one else but I still get a team-building budget!) I found this article on so-called 'Bambi hunts' where you can stalk naked women with paintball guns.
Doesn't sound dubious at all does it?

STAR WARS Screen Tests
Before Star Wars, there were the screen tests. You can watch them all here. Bizarrely, second choice for Princess Leia was Terri Nunn - later to become the lead singer with Berlin (awful 80's band responsible for 'Take my Breath Away'). If you haven't seen the Kevin Spacey spoof from Saturday Night Live yet then scroll down on this page to see it.

stripcreator
I'm back from my travels so many thanks to Kaye, Popcorn and Al for filling in - keep posting guys!
On a slightly random note, I've been really annoyed about the Blogger people changing their code and busting my RSS feed so, prompted by another mail telling me it was bust, I've done a temporary fix by pointing my 404 error page to the main www.pri.me.uk page (not an elegant fix but hey, it works!). Thanks to Brad from (one of my long-time favourites), the marvellous StripCreator for kicking me up the backside to fix it.

OMG!
His head almost severed....he drove his own vehicle for 30 km to reach a nursing home in Agra.
'nuff said.

Scarebot
Grom's mate Kevin Warwick has shot himself in the foot somewhat with his latest robot, as he's made it a little too scary and the Unis ethics board have banned him from showing it to anyone under the age of 18.

I think it'd be fine with a nice hat and maybe a 'tache

Rent-a-corpse
Some people will go to odd lengths to jump a queue for fuel. As always someone's there to make a quick buck.

Shameless plug
Seeing as its a slow blog day for me, and the Blogmaster is away - and because the lovely djimm has just finished my band's new website, I thought I would shamelessly plug milque.co.uk, the official website of Leeds' *ahem* premier unsigned metal band. Huzzah!

And another
Oh god I'm domesticated, I found this site really useful. AAArrrrrggggggg NOOOOOoooo the horror

Not our usual sort of item ;-)
But I've just found Late rooms. Perfect for that edge-of-excitement-over-exactly-what-your-hotel-will-be-like weekend away.

Macintosh killed my inner child
I used to think all Mac users were a content bunch of arty types, never complaining about Apples, the occasional remark about ease of use.
Unitll I saw this spoof Apple ad.
Now I see they're just as frustrated by dumb OS issues as Windows users.