Movie night: Shadows

Here's some creepiness and horror with school kids. Enjoy. 15 Minutes from Moon Eye Films.

'Thou shall not kill', and its loophole

This is how to do it. Get a degree. Go into politics. Get elected. Be seen with very senior religious figures. Then, and only then, start setting up a moral platform that incorporates a number of religious and social aspects.

Makeup and meerkats

Makeup is an aesthetic that requires the canvass of the right face. Most ideas about how to use makeup seem to come from fashion magazines. In fact, I suspect, it's only fashion magazines, because there is a shortage of items on the topic in magazines about industrial equipment and finances.

Take me to your Facebook: the artificial intelligence among us

The output is a variable result. For instance if you add two and two together on your computer's calculator, you get four. The output can change however, depending on various circumstances. For instance, it you use a spreadsheet as well as I do, two and two might add up to B3:C3+G8 and a whole lot of swearing.

Movie Night: Chubby Mermaid

How does one begin to describe this? Demented might be a good place to begin. It's sort of manga and it's actually, very, very clever about body image in its own manga way. Just over 11 minutes, from Emezie Okorafor.

Mindset Cafe: 2013-03-22

On the menu tonight... two servings of ash, real head transplants, monsters washing up on beaches, lovely bones, children's book designs and the origin of the smiley face.

Movie night: Tong

Tong, a lovable inventor, develops a disintegration ray to save humankind, but it doesn't work out quite as expected. Nine minutes from Talantis Films. French with English subtitles.

Mindset Cafe: 2013-03-15

On the menu tonight... giant mosquitoes, really fearsome spiders, strange tales of taxidermy, life without adjectives, humans and monarch butterflies on the brink.

Uncle Offbeat predicts the end of civilisation

Next time Uncle Offbeat predicts something, you listen nicely, you hear. Uncle Offbeat listens to those heretics in white lab coats, and when scientists get nervous Uncle Offbeat gets nervous as well, no matter what anybody, and especially not anybody called George W., has to say.

Movie night: Replay

A young boy in a post apocalyptic world discovers the ghosts of the past on a reel to reel tape deck. Eight-and-a-half minutes from Talantis Films

Mindset Cafe: 2013-03-08

Tehran battles giant genetically mutated rats, return from death sometimes possible, great tits can be deadly, the secret art of Dr Seuss, awesome poetry and more cool Lego...

Decaffeinated: early steps to finding out who I am

Life is like wearing black trousers in a room full of white cats. It's impossible to move without picking up some cat hairs.

Movie night: Lady Ice

Lady Ice shows up bringing death and cold destruction. The story is complicated by relationships, emotions and a pet. Seven-and-a-half minutes from Liron Pe'er.

Mindset Cafe: 2013-03-01

My browsing has been patchy during the week so the offering will be brief, but there's some tasty stuff on today's menu. Take a look...