Rare earth elements, how they’re used and why China has a monopoly on them

Sunday, 28 November 2010, 19:31 | Category : Crumbs, Politics, Human Rights & Other Serious Stuff
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The world depends on China in a multitude of ways (which I, personally, find a bit unsettling), but this angle is not often mentioned and it’s rather major.
If you own any sort of electronic device, the substances in it were probably mined in China. This is especially true for Japanese brands, apparently, as 100% of [...]

Essential Killing or why avoiding Skolimowski’s films might be a good idea…

I want to catch up with all the reviews I should have written since June, but in the meantime it’s probably better if I keep up with what I’m watching currently. I don’t think it matters to anyone if I don’t post film reviews in the order I watched them, so here goes…
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Essential [...]

FILM SPOTTING: December 2010 in Polish cinemas

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Basically, December sucks. There’s nothing that I really want to see and even the maybe list below is very short.
And I’ve changed my film spotting formatting yet again, but only very slightly ;)
Other Films for Consideration

You Again (USA, 2010)
Sigourney Weaver and Jamie Lee Curtis seem like a really explosive comedic coupling (I [...]

FILM DIARY: June 2010

From now on, most of my film reviews will be grouped into a monthly post. There are some films that I feel like writing more about and those I’m still going to dedicate whole posts to. But the rest is going to get shorter treatment - hopefully this will mean I won’t be quite so [...]

Slings and Arrows - more Paul Gross and Canadian TV

Discovered the first big drawback of TMDb - they don’t have TV serials implemented yet *sigh* I am therefore resorting to IMDb for this review - I had most of the links already in my drafts anyway.
My review structure has changed again, but it’s very simple now - I think this one will be much [...]

Why I love Take That: Part Three!

Wednesday, 10 November 2010, 17:04 | Category : Loaves, Uncategorized
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This post deals with a much more youthful Take That *grin* They had a more manufactured and cocky feel in those days, but even then they were most definitely insane ;)
Nobody Else Tour (1995)
Have you ever wondered what a boyband would look and sound like if they suddenly switched to playing hard rock in the [...]

Kim Jong-un

News stories about North Korea are very rare, but there’s one which has been making the rounds for about a month now. Ever since Kim Jong-il’s stroke in 2008 (or at least it is thought he had one, but we are unlikely to ever get official confirmation on that), speculation about who his successor would [...]

Why I love Take That: Part Two *grin*

Sunday, 7 November 2010, 16:34 | Category : Loaves, Uncategorized
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After my previous declaration of undying love, I realized that was only my first post about Take That on this blog :-/ Clearly, this must be remedied *grin* So I thought I’d post lots of clips with their craziest concert ideas, which is what I love about them the most. And then I realized the [...]