Today’s celebrities have their own range of signature fragrances, clothing lines and get-fit-quick DVDs.
Hell, some even have their own make of Land Rover.
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
Leonardo da Vinci
In Japan, a 13 year old girl is surrounded by the fevered roars of her fans as a thumping electro-synth beat flows through a darkened arena. She looks out towards a seething sea of glow sticks, a good number of them are red — her colour. She’s flanked by two of her…
Let’s be clear shall we? Asking a girl to make a sandwich is not funny or clever, nor has it ever been and especially not when you send it over Xbox live after beating them in MW3.
“Superheros are not suitable models for children!” Cry psychologists and researchers. Today’s incarnations of the superhero worlds are seen like never before, with IMAX, 3D and CGI making the world of cinema more vivid and lifelike than any comic book.
Are video games the reason we’re violent? Or is it all in our heads?
After being stabbed in the game Counter-Strike, a gamer hunts down his fellow player in real life and exacts revenge, replicating the in-game kill off screen. The judge calls him, ‘a menace to…
“How is Australia competing with America in the fat Olympics when we don’t even have Twinkies yet?” This was one of my initial thoughts when I read some alarming weight statistics from recent years. Unfortunately, it’s no secret that Australia is…
We have heard it so many times. The planet’s population is growing and our resources are declining. The areas of highest population growth are developing countries where education and contraception are limited, resulting in a higher birth rate. However…
There’s probably not a more pertinent reminder to me of how ever-changing technology is than the graveyard of CDs collecting dust on my bookshelf. I would hazard a guess that this is the case for most people nowadays. It’s easy to track the…