For a long time the moon’s been quiet, but we’re back baby! Happy 2010 earthlings.

For anyone who wants an explanation as to our silence; my dog ate my internet, so to fill the void I watched too much TV until my face got alarmingly hot. I wore a lot of trousers and I got a poncho.

It’s couples day! May the Gods of Valentines shine upon you.

 This Star Wars based valentines cardy thing to your immediate left was created by this guy, and you can view the rest on his site. They are awesome. It’s good to see that in all the campy nonsense of valentines day, the importance of Star Wars is not forgotten.

viva topless robot

So now that we’ve paid homage to the sickly love customs of the humans, lets get to business; first up, The A-team is on track to make me giggle like a girly girly man, this trailer is sweet. I like to see that they haven’t modified the van. Yet. Also check out the A-team surviving a mid-air plane explosion in a parachuting tank. Genius. Absolute genius. 

 It’s not out until november, so hold your junk, or let a loved one hold it for you. 

Next on the menu, The Room, “The best film of the year” (I don’t know which year, or which planet) the cult classic stinker is being shown in the Cameo theater in Edinburgh on the 20th and I recommend it to everyone. It has the passion of Tennessee Williams, don’t you know. If Williams was making toast. Drunk. And didn’t want toast.

 ”You’re tearing me apart Lisa”, indeed.

Also worth checking out are this excerpt from Disneys Princess and the Frog, a welcome return to hand drawn animation by the house of mouse in the capable hands of John Lasseter. Finally, related to Lasseter, a new trailer for Toy Story 3 has appeared. Unlike many sequels and three-quals, Toy Story 3 looks to be a worthy and logical addition to the saga. I, of course, base this theory on the scant information I absorbed from the 2 minute trailer. I am glad to see there is at least one poop joke in there. Keep the dream alive. There should be a poop joke in every film. Every.

There is more that has happened and will happen, but we can jump that bridge when we burn it. Apologies again for the disruption to the ’service’. Hopefully (Shatner willing) this year will see a rise in content for this site, and we have the A-team to look forward to at the end of the year. It shall be my favourite year. I shall love it and pet it and call it George.

On January 26th this year over a fifth of the world’s population will be celebrating Chinese New Year. But a mere 2 weeks later the world can unite to celebrate one event; what we could term a Chin-nese New Year… 2009, the year of hope, heralds (finally) the international release of ‘My Name is Bruce’ (as if we didn’t know), the return of the ‘greatest actor of his generation’ Bruce Lorne Campbell esquire.

According to Wikiped-ophiles

The plot revolves around Campbell, playing a sleazy version of himself, who, after being harassed and mistaken by fans to be a character much like Ash from the Evil Dead series of horror films, is abducted from his trailer park home to fight against Guan Di, a Chinese war deity.

Trailer parked here.

Not only that but Edinburgh-based Moon Musicians will be delighted to learn that Bruce will be introducing himself at the very very great indeed Cameo cinema ! If we are going to be attacked by flesh eating ethnic-stereotyped monsters, let’s hope it’s 5 February so ol’ BC can save the day…

A sadistic streak seems to be developing in British TV-land. In the likes of ‘I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here’, watching a rat nibbling at a daytime host’s eyelashes makes you think, it’s enough to make a Japanese game show look gentle and charming… (Some are, more later).

Which is why I thought I must have been dreaming when I saw the latest BBC Saturday night game thing Dale Winton hosted ‘Hole in the Wall’. But, alas not. I’m not that imaginative. Based on a Japanese show misnomered ‘human tetris’, ‘celebrities’ in alarmingly tight costumes are made to look silly in mildly amusing ways.

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Oh dip!

Trying to figure out how they did it!! The only good ones I could come up with are special glass fittings for that pyramid spectacle which can hold an image. Or some kind of special gas/bacteria inside the pyramid that when heated up can create light, the second is more outlandish so I’ll go for that. What do you think?

The Cassini satellite has been orbiting Saturn for the past four years and its been taking mountains of photos, this one has Saturns moons Titan and Enceladus.

Sister Moons separated by rings and some distance. Saturn’s rings cut across a scene ruled by Titan’s globe-encircling haze, lit up by the distant Sun and interrupted only by the small, closer moon Enceladus. The scattered light around planet-sized Titan (5,150 kilometers, or 3,200 miles across) makes the moon’s solid surface visible in silhouette, giant compared to Enceladus (505 kilometers, or 314 miles across). The image was taken in visible red light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on June 10, 2006 at a distance of approximately 3.9 million kilometers (2.4 million miles) from Enceladus and 5.3 million kilometers (3.3 million miles) from Titan.

Thats not the only one either, theres 25 other photos to gander and woooot at over at The Big Picture. Highly Recommended!

Originally found via BadAstronomy.

Back in the 1950s some bored russian scientists in the middle of trying to engineer superweapons for the cold war found that pulling sellotape really fast from a roll produces X rays. Keen American scientists have recently recreated the experiment to find that in actual fact, it really does!!!

The technical term for the X-Ray phenomenon is something called triboluminescence. As the sticky tape unrolls, the adhesive becomes positively charged, while the plastic tape takes a negative charge.

In a vacuum, this causes an electric field to be generated and 100 milliwatts of X-Rays to be released in a pulse lasting a billionth of a second.

All you need is some sticky back plastic pulled out at 3cm/s (actual speed), a vacuum and a camera to take a photo of your now radiated hand.

Found here.

The article about Avett Bros on the bus reminded me of the Black cab Sessions. Different places, different cabbies and lots of different music, consistently brilliant in my experience… Here’s crazy old bill Callahan of Smog fame by way of an example.

Or as the booksellers.com like to call it, the strangest-titled book of the last three decades. It was voted for on an online public vote, so without further ado I present to you:

“Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers” 

To put it into perspective, this was the dullest book name in the past 30 years against such classics as:

1988: Versailles: The View From Sweden (University of Chicago Press)
1989: How to Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art (Ten Speed Press)
1990: Lesbian Sadomasochism Safety Manual (Lace Publications)
1991: No Award
1992: How to Avoid Huge Ships (Cornwell Maritime Press)
1993: American Bottom Archaeology (University of Illinois Press)
1994: Highlights in the History of Concrete (British Cement Association)
1995: Reusing Old Graves (Shaw & Son)
1996: Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers (Hellenic Philatelic Society)
1997: The Joy of Sex: Pocket Edition (Mitchell Beazley)
1998: Development in Dairy Cow Breeding and Management: and New Opportunities to Widen the Uses of Straw (Nuffield Farming Scholarship Trust)
1999: Weeds in a Changing World (British Crop Protection Council)
2000: High Performance Stiffened Structures (Professional Engineering Publishing)
2001: Butterworths Corporate Manslaughter Service (Butterworths)
2002: Living With Crazy Buttocks (Kaz Cooke – Penguin US/Australia)
2003: The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories (Kensington Publishing)
2004: Bombproof Your Horse (J A Allen)
2005: People Who Don’t Know They’re Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It (Gary Leon Hill – Red Wheel/Weiser Books)
2006: The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification (Harry N Abrams)
2007: If You Want Closure In Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs (Simon & Schuster US)

Note the bestsellers: “How to avoid huge ships” and “The big book of Lesbian Horse Stories”.

Found at thebookseller.com.