Delhi’s deputy mayor killed by monkeys | The Register

“Delhi’s deputy mayor SS Bajwa died yesterday as a result of “serious head injuries” after falling from his first-floor terrace while attempting to fight off a pack of wild monkeys, the BBC reports.” Whu? The sounds like the kind of thing the British Government would come up with. Delhi’s deputy mayor killed by monkeys |

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Friday 13th (1980)

1! One single Larry! I’m shocked, to say the least. This film stands up much better than I expected it to, and for some reason is a lot more entertaining than I remembered.

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Breath of Fire II (Wii Virtual Console)

Whenever anyone mentions RPGs (Japanese style, rather than, say, Neverwinter Knights) conversation rapidly moves to Final Fantasy. As a result there’s little or no talk about the other awesome RPG franchises on the SNES. Foremost of these is the Breath of Fire series. This goes for me as well – I hadn’t played a Breath

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Ubuntu media server – reprise.

OK, so some of you will remember this article where I was babbling on at great length about setting up a media center using mp3, jinzora, and so on. Well, I hit a small snag a bit down the line and thought I’d share the adventure with you lot. Basically, the problem is this: mpd

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Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii)

It’s unprecedented! OK, so I’ve just defeated what turns out to be the penultimate boss and it used irritating and unnecessary gaming cliche #1: The SuckySuck(tm). But hang on a minute – it was easily the best, funniest, and most entertaining boss battle in the game so far! Essentially, the bad guy warped to half

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Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Well, I have to say that the Sky City is the most annoying Zelda dungeon I’ve ever done. Thankfully, though, it was pretty short and was saved by having a fun (if a bit easy) boss at the end. So, now I’m through the mirror and off on a rampage to hunt down the Big

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Legend of Zelda – Twilight Princess

I think I’m on final approach now. After a mad scurry about the landscape finding random stuff, I arranged to have myself shot into the sky from a giant cannon and ended up in the Sky City / Castle / Whatever. In this place, I expect I’ll find a miniboss, a boss and the final

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