Chris Mills

Holy Hell, I Had No Idea The LEGO Movie Was So Hard To Make

If you’ve watched The LEGO Movie, you were probably too busy laughing/reminiscing to actually think about the work that went into production. That’s a shame, because as this behind-the-scenes clip shows, it takes a lot of effort to make little plastic men talk. The film is made partly with stop-motion animation, using real bricks, and…

Thanks to “high import duties” and “challenges in the local business environment”, Nintendo will no longer be selling consoles or games in Brazil. Sorry, local Mario fans: looks like you’ll have to cross (any) border to get your fix.

A Trailer For The Interview, as Directed By Kim Jong-Un

The Interview, the most talked-about crap movie of 2014, was not very flattering to North Korea’s leader. Actually, it showed his head going pop. But what would happen if the film were directed by the DPRK’s glorious leader, rather than those American fascists? This YouTube video, which comes to us courtesy of an anonymous YouTube…

This Android Tablet Is A Total Surface Ripoff

Another day, another Android tablet. This one’s got an 11-inch screen, magnetically-attaching keyboard, kickstand coming out the back…wait, that seems familiar. The Remix Ultra tablet is the brainchild of three ex-Googlers, and at first impression, seems to follow the timeless tech-product-ripoff formula to perfection. The hardware is a cheaper version of the Surface’s popular form-factor:…

Report: Apple Pay May Launch Internationally By March

Since November, the rest of the world has been forced look on with mild annoyance and jealousy as Americans have paid for stuff with fingerprints (and a $600 phone). But according to a report from 9to5Mac, the days of having to key in a PIN – ugh- are numbered. The report, which quotes anonymous “sources…

Watch A Crazy Parkour Runner Evade Zombies

As an ad for upcoming zombie game Dying Light, a group of parkour runners decided to make this POV short about a parkour runner getting chased by zombies. The action takes place in Cambridge, UK, where it appears there are many chimneys and rooftops to jump over (or, more likely, fall down). The GoPro-clad hero…

SpaceX Rocket Makes Crash Landing On A Drone Barge

After a lot of publicity and one aborted launch attempt, SpaceX tried to land its Falcon 9 rocket on a drone barge this morning. ‘Tried’ very much being the key word. Initially, the mission went to plan: the rocket launched OK (incidentally, the first successful American resupply launch since that other rocket went boom), the…

It’s Mel Gibson’s Birthday, Let’s All Watch Braveheart

Today is Mel Gibson’s 59th birthday! Happy Birthday Mel. 2014 was also the year that Scotland decided it didn’t want FREEDOM after all. As such, Braveheart, directed by and starring Gibson, is quite clearly the ideal film to be watching tonight. In case you haven’t seen it before, Braveheart is an “epic historical medieval war…

This January Marks 50 Years Of Britain’s Best Band

There’s a lot of good, scientific, fact-based arguments you could use to persuade someone that The Who is Britain’s greatest gift to music. Or, you could sit them down with a beer and their 50-year-old original singles, and make your job a damn sight easier. Back in 1965, The Who released their first song, the…

Apple, Please Make This iPod Classic Cover A Reality

Apple uncerimoniously killed off the iPod Classic a few months ago, and the internet, as it is wont to do, basically exploded with consumerist anger. Although the iPod Classic probably won’t be coming back any time soon, this concept, if it were to become real, would make it all ok. To be clear, this is…

Doctors used to harvest penicillin from piss 

Despite all the wonderful advancements in medical science, humanity does forget about a clever technique from time to time. Case in point: we used to recycle non-processed penicillin from patient’s urine, and now we don’t anymore. The story, as recently retold by Discover Magazine, is a classic case of wartime frugality. After the ‘magic bullet’…

It Looks Like Netflix Is Cracking Down On VPN ‘Pirating’ 

It’s one of the internet’s open secrets that if you don’t live in the US, but wish you did because of the better Netflix offerings, you can use any number of Chrome extensions or VPNs to get around the geo-blocker. However, it looks like the free ride might be coming to an end, as Netflix…

This Website Could Be The Ultimate All-In-One Torrent Machine

As I recently discovered whilst trying to teach my roommate about torrenting — educationally, of course — downloading illegal stuff off the internet still isn’t the easiest thing in the world. Bitport is a website that’s trying to change all that: it will find, download, and stream your torrents to you, all with a stupid…

Flappy Bird Is Probably The Perfect Smartwatch Game

Smartwatches are good for certain things. Music. Notifications. Fitness monitoring. Social alienation (kidding!). But one activity they have consistently sucked at, ever since calculator watches first spelt naughty letters, is playing games. A proper version of Flappy Bird for Android Wear could change all of that. To be clear: there have been games on Android…

A Bad Bing Update Took Out Yahoo Search Yesterday

News from the land of unloved search engines: yesterday, both Bing and Yahoo had an outage (don’t worry, I didn’t notice either), caused by a coding booboo from Microsoft. According to a Reuters report, Microsoft pushed out a Bing update on Friday afternoon without bug-testing it properly first. Because Bing’s search mojo actually powers Yahoo…

Watch The Space Station Go Flying Past The Moon

Thanks to the internet (and just a tiny little bit of math), Israeli photographer Gadi Eidelheit managed to get himself in position to see something quite unique: the International Space Station flying in front of the moon. Even better, he caught the whole thing on video. In order to capture the video, Eidelheit used HeavensAbove,…

Sony Is Giving PSN Users Gifts To Make Up For The Hacking

Over Christmas, the self-styled group of lulz-seeking lowlifes known as the Lizard Squad DDoSed the shit out of PSN and Xbox Live, ruining Christmas for untold numbers of 8-year-olds, and by extension their parents. Law enforcement is slowly but surely bringing them to justice, but now Sony is also trying to make amends to users.…

Everyone Is Torrenting The Interview 

After much humming and hawing, Sony released The Interview to the internet yesterday, charging $6 for the privilege of seeing a CGI Kim Jong-Un go pop. And, because this is the internet, hundreds of thousands of people are repaying the favor by torrenting the crap out of it. According to estimates from TorrentFreak(which are in…

Hackers Are Attacking PSN and Xbox Because Christmas Spirit Is Dead

Since late last night, it looks like a bunch of hackers have been attacking the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live online gaming services. Merry Christmas 2014, everyone! The PSN status page is currently listing its services as online, although the official Twitter support page acknowledges that some users “may be having issues logging in”. The…

Watch This Supercut Of Santas Behaving Badly

Being Santa can be hard work — all that ho-ho-hoing and bouncing kids on your knee really takes its toll. So much easier to just be a drunken bearded degenerate instead. JoBlo have made an excellent supercut celebrating all the notable Santas Gone Wild in movie history. Between drinking, beating people up, and the occasional…