Aehso’s Output

Wow, I just noticed the complete list, there are 21 completed James Bond fims! (source: wikipedia)

The strange thing is, I’ve seen them all and I never realised there were that many - I always figured there was maybe 10 or 11 of them. They’re all so similiar in a, err, James Bond type of way. And check out those $ figures, $3.8billion+ in total box office (to date) from a combined budget of < $800million, and that's not counting the TV re-run revenue. No wonder they keep on pumping them out!

1. Dr. No
2. From Russia with Love
3. Goldfinger
4. Thunderball
5. You Only Live Twice
6. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
7. Diamonds Are Forever
8. Live and Let Die
9. The Man with the Golden Gun
10. The Spy Who Loved Me
11. Moonraker
12. For Your Eyes Only
13. Octopussy
14. A View to a Kill
15. The Living Daylights
16. Licence to Kill
17. GoldenEye
18. Tomorrow Never Dies
19. The World Is Not Enough
20. Die Another Day
21. Casino Royale
22. Bond 22 (work in progress)

BoingBoing have a great expose on the Terms Of Use that apply to (US only)Amazon Unbox service.

This puts my recent gripe about iTunes DRM in the shade. I find it truly astonishing that a global brand would risk their reputation by releasing something with an agreement like that attached. They obviously must have calculated the risk of a Sony rootkit backlash and decided first-to-market was more important (they beat Apple by one week - no coincidence on the launch date there).

This just blows me away - grab Democracy from the folks at the Participatory Culture Foundation, browse the various RSS feeds and end up watching content like this or this (yes, Democracy loads torrents too).  Then check out their sister site Video Bomb and if have your own content set up a Broadcast Machine or your own.

Awesome stuff, with quality free software and content like this, who needs broadcast TV?

Great to see a great short story translate into an award winning short film directed by an Irishman, Stephen O’Regan.  (via Terry Bisson’s site)

The movie, Stealth is bad. Not just bad but terrible, apparently. Just in case you were tempted by the flashy trailer. And that’s a pity, I really like Jamie Foxx.

Aside, it is almost comical to note the varied, yet predicable, reviews collated by Metacritic. No surprise that Premiere gave it a high score - Premiere have to promote films no matter how bad. Yet back in the real world of the Washington Post and the Boston Globe an anternative view exists.

Hmmm, I wonder which I’ll believe?!?!

There’s a bloke in Seattle who is already queuing for the last Star Wars film, not due to open until May 19th. Oh, and he’s got a blog.