Especially if you have spinnyheaditis.

Why are some moviegoers fleeing from Cloverfield?

“Because the monster-trashes-New-York film, produced by Lost creator JJ Abrams, is causing motion sickness and migraine in some viewers.”

“The problem is that the movie is made in the style of an amateur using a handheld camera. No shot holds still for more than a second or two…. the sense of balance, which depends on the inner ear’s vestibular system, is being confused by this technique”

Stumbling about the Internet as?I do, someone mentioned that there was apparently an episode of the weakest link with all the puppets from children’s TV on. it was by all accounts quite rubbish, but?I thought a quick search of the Internet may give me a you tube snap of it.

However, after a quick search, I found a link from some random forum that said, oh you can watch that on tvCatchup.

So off I trot; and WOW, tvcatchup rocks.??

Go now it allows you to record free-view via the web, and look at anything anyone else has recorded. so right now, we’re watching the thing about how the victorians invented all the christmas traditionsit was on the Sunday before christmas. but if you want you could watch that episode of the weakest link.

We’re not big on the new year - it’s just another day, and at 6:00am tommorow both my children will be awake and asking for breakfast - so Ruth is already in bed, and I’m about to go, but not before i foolishly have watched 15 minutes of Graham Norton being basically mean to people (he’s called the rugby player thick, and was shocked when a celebraty got a political question right).

The premis of the ‘quiz’ appeares to be asking people about the ‘big’ events of the year.. I’m shocked by two things. one that people consider people getting photograped getting into a car to be a big event, and that i actually now some of this trash.

So a quick last minute resolution for next year. I am going to try and reduce the amount of media trash I let absorb into my life.

OK so we’ve both read Harry Potter now. So we can emerge from the undergrowth safe in the knowlage that we know what happens and no one can spoil it for us. Although there is still at least one thing the book doesn’t tell you*

* it turns out theres a huge list of things people wanted it to tell them, you will have to read it to see which ones it doesn’t

[update] if you have finished the book - here are some loose ends tied up

the political force that could be unleashed if only someone could get all the adults who are sat watching children’s TV to move on something. After the last post I have for my sins being looking in shock more than awe at the CBeebies discussion forums on the BBC website.

besides the obsession with details around just what the blue pontipines are called, there is also a petition to get Justin an OBE. I’m telling you it’s the edge of a wedge, soon there will be mass marches on parliament for PC Plum to get a promotion.

Yes I am one of the sad people who watch doctor who, but it’s really good. the beeb are telling me it’s go loads of good reviews (well they would wouldn’t they), but for me the best episode was still the one where the Dr was hardly in it. I will probably get over the statues looking at me, but if i was 10…

Pooter games : they’ve done a top 100 (who hasn’t) computer games. but it makes us not keeping up with the times people happy, the ‘newest’ console in our house is an n64 a whole two generations ago. but in the top 10 of the top 100. are Zelda (got that) and Mario (yep that too), and before it disappeared into some charity box, I had Super Mario World and Zelda on the snes. not forgetting our aging gameboy with tetris and we have half the top ten. not bad for someone who hasn’t bought a game in 5 years.

Answering the other tv/media question of the week. John Simm has been in loads of thing -non of which i think I’ve watched avidly but enough to make his face familiar. It’s a bit odd, I though that he had been in quite a lot of good stuff, but his career is a bit patchy.

“A comfortable shot for Serena Williams, right in her wheel house.”

Watching tennis in the background while surfing the Internet is very strange.