the heretic genetic algorithm

Book review = "Abe Lincoln - vampire slayer" (Seth Grahame Smith). I only picked this up because I recognised the name from bookclub, and to be frank, I was expecting it to be a bit shit. But it wasn't. As I know nothing much about Abe Lincoln, I can only say that it seemed credible enough, and seemed a good imitation of a history book (I don't know much about these either :)). But best of all, it was a good story and I enjoyed it. Would probably recommend.

Film review - Resident Evil 3D. Again, much much better than I expected. That'll teach me for reading the Guardian reviews. I liked the fact that Milla Jovovich seemed (within the confines of film concepts of mature women) more grown up and comfortable, and less airbrushed. She's always appealing, let's face it, but she actually made an action heroine that I admired. The plot was just about enough for such a film, and the 3D-ness was quite good. The only complaint was that after a while there were so many ripoffs of nods to "28 Days Later" that I was starting to mental reframe the timelapse captions as 28/7 of a year later. They'd actually put 3D effects to good use, rather than make a film and 3Dify it. And yet again, they left room for a sequel ;)