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Apollo 14 astronaut says aliens have been visiting for 60 years

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Apollo 14 astronaut says aliens have been visiting for 60 years

Dr Edgar Mitchell, the 6mth man to walk on the moon, says aliens have contacted humans several times but the government has covered it up for the last 60 years. The Apollo 14 astronaut says he was personally aware of many visits. During ...read more

A guide to avoiding bad movies

Filed under Movies, Amusing. 6 comments, most recent by Dan L..
A guide to avoiding bad movies

We've all seen plenty of 'top 10 worst movies' lists and even more reviews on bad movies, and I've contributed my share here on numerous occasions. This got me thinking: How does one avoid seeing a bad movie? There probably is a science ...read more

Matt Lessall, The Casting Director is in

Matt Lessall, The Casting Director is in

In keeping with this weeks theme I am bringing yet another Blogger from FIB. This time it is The Casting Director Matt Lessall. I never realized how much a casting director did until I started reading Matt's blog. Talking to him for this in...read more

The Font Conference

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The Font Conference

I have to say, for a bunch of childish pranksters, the guys at College Humour do come up with some great original videos. This one is fantastic, although you will benefit if you are a designer or if you at least know your fonts. ...read more

Richard Janes Part 2

Richard Janes Part 2

When we left off yestrday Richard was about to some advice from Producer, Selwyn Roberts about film school. Let's see what he has to say. You can see the first part of the interview here in case you missed it. RJ:He said "The nation...read more

My Top Ten Fantasy Series

Filed under Books. 6 comments, most recent by Laiste.
My Top Ten Fantasy Series

So I read a lot. Mostly fantasy novels and series and this is my list of my top ten favourites series. 10. Stephen Dondaldson’s Mordants Need. I never felt particularly attached to the more famous Chronicles of Thomas Covenant so ...read more

Zimbabwe introduces $100 billion note

Filed under Society, Economics . 3 comments, most recent by aaron.
Zimbabwe introduces $100 billion note

In an effort to manage their staggering 2.2 million percent inflation - Zimbabwe will next week begin printing 100 billion dollar notes. The sky-rocketing inflation is the result of a total economic collapse, largely resulting from the Z...read more

LCD and Plasma to face new competition

Filed under Technology. 8 comments, most recent by Mark.
LCD and Plasma to face new competition

While LCD and Plasma displays dominate the flat panel market, a new contender is set to change all that. Telescopic Pixel displays are a new emerging technology that works thanks to an ancient old optical device premise - that of a telescop...read more

Richard Janes, husband, father, director, writer, actor and FIB founder.

Richard Janes, husband, father, director, writer, actor and FIB founder.

I recently had the chance to talk with Richard and it was a great conversation. We talked about movies, the state of the film industry and what led him to create Film Industry Bloggers (FIB) with his wife Amy. Come take a trip with me to le...read more

Admitted child rapist set free

Filed under Shocking, Rant, Legal and Law, Crime, Children. 8 comments, most recent by Hellboy.
Admitted child rapist set free

I would like to hereby state that this has now become an actual phenomena, and a problematic one at that. We've read about injustices and out-of-touch Judges in the past plenty here on Rusty Lime, and I would like to add another to the l...read more

Intelligent Design contradicted by strange fish

Filed under Religion, Science. 6 comments, most recent by Jake.
Intelligent Design contradicted by strange fish

An evolutionary missing like in a flatfish claims to cast aside any credibility to the concept of 'intelligent design'. "CT scans of 50-million-year-old fossils have revealed an intermediate species between primitive flatfishes (wi...read more

Dumping Outlook for Gmail

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Dumping Outlook for Gmail

If you've ever thought about dropping your email client (Outlook Thunderbird etc) and moving over to a web based client, like Gmail, I can testify that it's actually great. Up until about a month ago I used Outlook 100% of the time for e...read more

Death of a Japanese Icon

Filed under Travel, Stupidity, Books. No comments.
Death of a Japanese Icon

“Live fast, die young” “Live life to the fullest” “Make everyday count” “Live every day like it was your last” Blah blah blah, these are some common catch phrases, no doubt started by ei...read more

The Greatest Story Ever Told: The Day I Saved Le Pope

Filed under Science, Satire, Religion, Fiction, Parody. 2 comments, most recent by Jake.
The Greatest Story Ever Told: The Day I Saved Le Pope

It was a clear sunny afternoon on the day that the pope came to visit. Having just returned from a long run along the esplanade board walk that begins at my beautiful beachfront mansion, I felt like working off a little more energy before g...read more

The 'WIFI' defense

The 'WIFI' defense

TorrentFreak has a very interesting article regarding the 'WIFI' defense for file sharers. Although this article is written in response to legal cases in both the UK and Germany, the theory of the 'WIFI' defense could hold true everywhere. ...read more

Dawkins raps about evolution

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Dawkins raps about evolution

Richard Dawkins, Charles Darwin and co have something to say, and I dare not hold them back. ...read more

Jupiter's Chaos

Filed under Space, Astronomy, Amazing. 3 comments, most recent by Bob.
Jupiter's Chaos

Sometimes we need reminding of just how small our planet really is, and this sequence of photos taken by Hubble does the job of reminding us admirably. You see that small red dot in the lower left of the series moving closer to Jupiter's...read more

Bushisms - You get what you vote for

Filed under Politics, Amusing. 2 comments, most recent by mini-mel.
Bushisms - You get what you vote for

For the past eight long years, the world has been forced to endure the language mangling, idiocy of President George W. Bush. His total list of blunders is long and could take days to put into one article. Aside from all of the ill-advised ...read more

If Tom Cruise had a comic book

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If Tom Cruise had a comic book

Seriously, this is funny. But when has making fun of Tom Cruise never been funny? Courtesy if Holy Taco, I present "If Tom Cruise Had A Comic Book". ...read more

Last Rockstar Productions: What 'lessons learned' looks like

Filed under Video, Movies, Movie review, Entertainment. 4 comments, most recent by Joe Marco.
 Last Rockstar Productions: What 'lessons learned' looks like

Straight from the Last Rockstar Productions (LRP) web site. Last Rockstar Productions, the brainchild of Marco Antonio Alvarez, is an independent film production company that draws its power from a vast network of creative forces in the ...read more