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I am now the proud owner of two Carl Sagan books, The Demon Haunted World (Amazon, Kalahari) and Billions and Billions (Amazon, Kalahari), as well as Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, a set of seven DVDs (Amazon).
As my time is limited, I will probably not be reading or watching any of it, until October. Still, it was [...]

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I saw “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” yesterday, on the big screen. Unfortunately it wasn’t surprisingly good.
(”Sequels are typically bad” still applies).
On Metacritic, Pirates I, II and III scored 64/8.8, 53/6.6 and 50/5.2 successively. I can understand that. (That’s critics/users, and >60 for critics, is a “favourable” score.) I am unfortunately able to [...]

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Conversations with friends force me to think more critically about Spiderman 3. Yes, it was sentimental fluff; yes, if you had big expectations and a good memory of 1 and 2, you might be severely disappointed.
In my case, I didn’t really have any expectations, I wasn’t particularly excited about it, and my memory of 1 [...]

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I have to blog, my mind is milling with thoughts I need to flush out. Writing just one post, might also get the other posts I have in mind, out of my mind for the time being. If not, expect a seriousish post following soon.
On Friday I blogged about a review of Spiderman [...]

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Spins a web, any size, catches thieves, just like flies, look out! Here comes the Spiderman!
Considering this blog will not host serious and “high-quality” (supposedly) content (content that requires careful thinking and careful writing, hence lots of time to write) until such time as I am no longer married to my thesis, there won’t be [...]

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So, just a quick update, three friends, my sister and I, watched V for Vendetta on Friday. What a stunning movie! Highly recommended!
A brief summary: it is a political thriller set in a dystopian United Kingdom. There is of course some graphic violence, but this isn’t your run of the mill action movie. Here is [...]

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