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• We don't need another hero - comic book films are a major yawn

  by Dan Thorne Mon at 11:52 AM
  A reboot of the Superman franchise was given another whirl this week with Man of Steel (read TNT's review here), reheating the reheated cabbage of the red-caped hero's origin story once again with a sci-fi 3D in-your-face twist.Of course it was packed to the gills with amazing CGI effects and an imp...

• Dumb & dumber. US refuses to relinquish guns of mass slaughter

  by Dan Thorne April 18
  US congress yesterday decided to block any changes to their ridiculous gun laws.  Expanded background checks for gun purchases and a ban on assault weapons with high-capacity magazines was turned down.  The powerful National Rifle Association wasted no time raising megabucks in the wake ...

• Snowbombing 2013 in a ravey foresty mountainous snowy nutshell

  by Dan Thorne April 7
  I've found myself halfway up an Austrian mountain dancing to the sounds of Norman Jaye's Good Times DJ set inside an igloo with a group of hard-partying smiling folk who are here to indulge in a week's worth of raving, skiing, snowboarding and Jagermeister. It feels like pretty much the coolest plac...

• Health and wellbeing - the preserve of the rich or unemployed?

  by Dan Thorne November 19, 2012
  Swathes of government cuts on the benefits for working families, family tax credits and all that malarkey, frozen wages, London living crippling most budgets and all that depressing negative bring down business we've got used to hearing about every day.   Yes, it's another doom-laden whinge a...

• More civil disobedience, please

  by Dan Thorne July 4, 2012
  This week a man in Manchester took his revenge on a mobile phone shop that wouldn't give him his money back - he calmly and systematically tore apart their shop in broad daylight with an audience of hundreds watching on in the high street.  He'll most likely face a fine and hopefully not priso...

• Get a bloody move on, technology

  by Dan Thorne March 23, 2012
  So, we all dreamed of the day we'd get the Back to the Future hoverboards. And everyone wants a rocket back pack, right? That would sort out having to cram onboard a stinking tube train every day. The only thing you'd have to worry about would be the odd disgruntled pigeon.   This week I noti...

• There's worm holes in my Apple

  by Dan Thorne February 2, 2012
  Is it a case of the emperor's new clothes or can Apple really do no wrong in the eyes of the masses? It's been bothering me lately as the time has come to replace my worn out old Nokia, donate him (with a fond farewell for good service and medals for good service even after lots of drops, frustrated...

• Getting in a lather over SOPA

  by Dan Thorne January 20, 2012
  This week every website worth its salt was jumping on Wikipedia's train to protest over the new SOPA (Stop Internet Piracy Act) laws being proposed in the United States.Corporate interests and the power they wield in the US senate mean that the days of sharing is caring are soon to be over.http://ww...

• Christmas card panic? Show them some elf love

  by Dan Thorne December 21, 2011
  It's the time of year when friends send you Christmas cards, and you realise with the kind of creeping guilt that only comes once a year during the season of goodwill that you've not got them a sausage. Well, there's a solution! Several in fact.If you'd like to return some Christmassy affection, the...

• We've got a file on you - do we mind being tracked?

  by Dan Thorne December 2, 2011
  This week the spying accusations are coming out of the woodwork with new revelations by Wikileaks and SpyFiles naming and shaming the companies who earn serious bucks from monitoring our every move via our phones.Meanwhile, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg admits he made a 'bunch of mistakes' and th...

• Technology and rebellion

  by Dan Thorne November 24, 2011
  Last week thousands of #Occupy protesters marched through New York City, accompanied by a 'bat signal'-style projection on the side of one of the cities largest buildings (the ever-excellent Boing Boing site has an interview with the man responsible).This was yet another interesting way that technol...

• Early tech adopters: the consumer chumps?

  by Dan Thorne November 14, 2011
  It always seems to be the eager, pioneering, techy curious and dedicated fans who jump onboard with new technology first. They're the ones who are brave enough to leap before they look into the abyss, throwing hard earned cash because they just have to be first to get the latest consumer electronics...
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• Smart phones, forward thinkers and a Facebook bank revolt

  by Dan Thorne November 7, 2011
  The magical and compelling world of smartphones that have become so addictive that hundreds of commuters decide to risk walking under buses rather than look away from their hypnotic screen.Well, The Telegraph has compiled a handy comparative guide to all the latest clever clever phones, comparing th...