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Books

Bourne again?

I think I need this book.

Neil’s new book, Emergency, teaches you how to become Jason Bourne.

Multiple passports, moving assets, lock-picking, escape and evasion, foraging, even how to cross borders without detection.

Tim Ferriss has excerpts from the book, and reading through I think in all honesty I lack:

  1. The money
  2. The balls

To actually move all my assets into limited liability companies, become a citizen of a tax haven and launder money, but the Urban Escape and Evasion course sounds pretty cool:

In the last forty-eight hours, I’d learned to hotwire a car, pick locks, conceal my identity, and escape from handcuffs, flexi-cuffs, ducttape, rope, and nearly every other type of restraint.

Though I doubt I’ll ever require any of these skills outside of a stag do.

(via kottke)

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Books Film

Where The Wild Things Are

The trailer for Where The Wild Things Are is up on the Apple site. I’m not 100% sure what to make of it, I’ve been uncertain about a live action adaptation from the start and, depending how it’s done, expanding the story to make it feature length could go wrong.

The Wild Things have a certain Henson-like quality to them which I think I’ll like, and Wild Things voiced by Tony Soprano and Ghost Dog can only be a good thing.

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Books Film

Coraline

I’ve just got the book and am about a third of the way through, getting quite excited about the film:

The animation looks great and from what I’ve read (both book and reviews) it’s shaping up to be quite a scary treat.

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Books

Well-read?

I remember a few weeks ago the ‘How many of these books have you read?’ note was doing the rounds on Facebook (with lots of, “OMG, you have to read such-and-such…”). I think the best response to the study that appears to have kickstarted this particular round has to be Charlie Brooker’s:

Apparently people lie about having read all these books because they think it’ll make them appear sexier. Which begs the question: who the hell earnestly believes that claiming to have read the Bible from beginning to end is going to get them laid?

The full article is well worth a read.

Also tomorrow night Charlie’s new series Newswipe starts on BBC Four.

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Books Computer Games

Computer Game Covers

In a similar vein to these and thesecomputer games reimagined as book covers.

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Books Design

Potter

The Harry Potters reimagined as Penguin covers.