It's likely that that portrait was a flattering one ... but his dad Philip IV was no looker either.

I think DC/Warner has one major question on their collective minds, it's not "How do we make a great superhero film with x or y character ?", it's "How can we be as different as humanly possible to Marvel's cinematic output ?" That's how you get Man of Steel. Man of Steel was never designed to be a Superman film, it…

STID tried to be oh-so-smart and clever and attempted to reinvent Khan by adding a lot of unnecessary baggage, mystery and plot twists that didn't work at all.

The person who is going to try to hack my passwords is probably half a planet away, so writing it down makes some sense as it is about as secure a method as any other. And like others here and famously Stephen Fry on QI said, the one who breaks into your house is more likely to be interested in the widescreen TV and…

The good thing about my writer's block is that I had a long hard look at what I produced before and had to resign myself to the fact that I have no talent for writing.

I was offered a job, if I went by bus I would have to leave at 23h57 the previous day and then wait a little over six hours before taking the first of three buses I would have to take, a journey of about 2 hours and 45 minutes, after which I'd have to walk another 45 minutes to work from the nearest bus stop. I'd…

Maybe it was simply panic, maybe she was indeed reaching for some piece of skull or brain that was blown away, but I never felt that she did something wrong. She had a human reaction and none of us can say what they will do in a moment of extreme stress and pressure.

It's a type 3 alien construct.

SPINOFF ! NOW !

Titanic was a fine ship in her day, but bigger ships were being built before she even left port. But today's cruise ships look like a floating brick, if you ask me, the Normandie is the finest liner ever made, looks amazing, lavishly decorated by the biggest names in Art Deco and like Titanic had a tragic end, but…

The artwork is what the DC RPG would have looked like if Games Workshop had gotten a license in 1989.

Our local video rental closed about a year ago. Ten years ago the owners built a new store, a sign the rental business was still booming, but in the space of less than two years most stores on the high street or the smaller local stores have all closed shop.

For sale, medium universe, sparsely inhabited.

Saturn has too many rings today.

Dinosaurs cloned, mostly ate and crapped.

Life began, had fun, then ended.

Life began, had fun, then ended.

We are too late, it spawned.

She blinked. Nebraska shimmered then vanished.

I always thought that the link between digits and our numeric system was a bit spurious, given that the Babylonians had a base sixty system etc.