Alien / Predator things – check
Terminator – check
Stunts – check
Gore – check
Explosions – check
Expressions of puzzlement – check
SHOUTING – CHECK
via @io9
Red hot chilli peppers
Pepper drying in the sun, taken today.
Nathan Nelson
Ghana does sci-fi
George Ayittey and the cheetah generation
George Ayittey is a Ghanaian economist and author, and he has a problem with African autocrats above all other things, even oppression and mismanagement by colonial powers. He appears on Twitter every so often, and when he does he usually lets rip with a volley of tweets. He doesn’t pull his punches. When Muammar Gaddafi …
Controlled concern
You see a lot of things in the developing world that you’d rather not see, you’d rather didn’t happen, or you’d do something about if you had the slightest idea what you could do. You’re approached for money by people with blindness or deformities. You see violence towards people and animals. You see the conditions …
Guardian of the house
This handsome devil, an agama, is always at our gate. Kofi, Philip and Richard do a great job of looking after the house but it’s just possible that this guy’s in charge.
Not counting
All of a sudden, we’re returning to the UK in just over seven weeks. Six months is nothing. Six months is nothing but it seems like ages ago that we watched the London riots on CNN and wondered what the hell was going on, even longer since we spent three days running around like blue-arsed …