The 11th Doctor

At 26 years old, Matt Smith has found himself the youngest actor ever to be cast as the Doctor. When auditioning for the role, Smith had a certain “Doctor-ness about him” that made the relatively unknown actor the production team’s first choice to play the eleventh Doctor.

Of course, internet nerds over the age of thirty will be enraged by the choice. Me, I say let’s just see the lad perform the part before we cast any aspersions.

More from the BBC website here.

OBEY

John Carpenter’s 1988 film They Live was part sci-fi, part black comedy. Pro wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper played a down-on-his-luck construction worker who discovered a pair of special sunglasses which allowed him to see the world as it really is - a world run by aliens that are in charge of a massive campaign to keep humans subdued.

Famous for a gruelling five-and-a-half minute fight scene and the immortal line, “I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass… and I’m all out of bubblegum”, They Live was a commercial failure, only managing to reach a cult following once it was released on video. So how disheartened I am to learn that a remake is in the pipeline.

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I’ve never been one to post links to YouTube videos on the World of Me, but for this I must make an exception.

This is the introduction to the Playstation Three game Little Big Planet, a cute platform game that invites a global community to create playable worlds with level and object creation tools. How anyone could not want to play a game that has that narrator and that music is beyond me.

Duly purchased, and to be played heavily once I return from a rather busy weekend away…

I would just like to announce that I both hate and love Linux (Linpus Lite Linux specifically) with equal measure. I won’t go into why I’m using Linux just yet, I will say that whenever Linux does something wonderful and clever that impresses my inner geek, it then proceeds to punch me squarely in the face and refuses to do any simple task I need it to do.

I’ll persevere, even to the point where I’ll try another flavour of Linux such as Ubuntu, but unfortunately it seems that you need the patience of a saint to make Linux usable. Unfortunately, I’m no saint.

It was just over a year ago that my previous PC decided to shuffle off this mortal coil in an unspectacular cloud of non-smoke. I was reminded of this fact only last Thursday night when my PC decided to do exactly the same all over again.

This time around there are no stories of crazy shenanigans involving mobile phones and weird error messages, this time around my PC just died, suddenly and properly. I’m not sure of the exact cause behind its untimely demise, only that there was an error with the motherboard that forced the machine to lock-up whenever the processor temperate reached 30 degrees Celsius. Again, the only cure this was to build a new machine, which is why I’m typing this from my brand-spangley new Intel quad-core super-deluxe PC with time travel and lottery number prediction system*.

As before, what I’m trying to say is this – my computer broke and I’ve fixed it. Let the updates commence!

*this is, in fact, a lie!