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Daybreakers Trailer

In 2019, a plague transforms the world’s population into vampires. With fewer humans to provide blood, the vampires seek to farm the remaining humans and to find a way to continue their existence. A secret team of vampires uncover a way that would rescue the human race.

Haiku Review: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Didn’t see the first.
Nor did I see the second.
I might have to now.
8/10

Review: CoverSutra 2

A small app that goes onto the menu bar, CoverSutra (currently at version 2.1) aims to keeps your hands on the keyboard when doing work, while still giving you the ability to control iTunes.

With a search function that can be accessed by a keyboard shortcut, as well as many other functions (such as play, pause, next track, previous track and increase and decrease volume), once you learn the shortcuts that you define, it will be quicker than trying to use the mouse or trackpad.

Flashback: 1979

1979. The year the first spreadsheet program was created, Video Killed the Radio Star and Asteroids were everywhere.

Interview: Catching Up with Jonathan Coulton

Those of you who have played and beaten the game “Portal” by Valve would be familiar with Jonathan Coulton’s work. He wrote the end credit song “Still Alive”. This isn’t the only thing that he has done and to coincide with the release of his concert DVD Paste Magazine has conducted an interview with him to give us an insight into what he has been up to lately.

True Blood

In America, season two of True Blood has just started showing on TV. Unfortunately the rest of us have to wait to see it.
However, if you need your hit of TB, why not get the Season 1 DVDs or read the books on which the series was based.

Haiku Review: Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
An end-of-the-world
Hilarious comedy.
Definite winner.
9/10