A scene where Grylls was purported to have escaped from an active volcano by leaping across lava, avoiding poisonous sulphur dioxide gas, was actually created with special effects, using hot coal and smoke machines. Sulphur dioxide gas is colourless.
Recently downloaded Ikaruga, a 2D, top-down shooter for XBox. I remember playing it on a friend’s Dreamcast years ago and being mind-boggled by the whole experience. It’s a simple concept (all enemy ships are either white or black, you can swap between the two colors, absorbing same colour bullets, doing more damage against opposing colour [...]
(For complete marks, show your working) Alfredo starts University and sets up an account with his local high street Bank[1]. 4 years later Alfredo finishes full-time education. On the 17th August he has exactly £0.54p in his account. Five years later Alfredo receives a letter from a debt collection agency informing him there are outstanding [...]
At the risk of descending to the lowest common denominator of blog posting, here’s one to file under ‘complaining’ and ‘Microsoft’. But first of all, lets be completely clear, I’m not going to use this as an opportunity to complain about their policy of rolling membership; join for one month and they take your money [...]