Battlefield 3 Offline Mode

Start the offline mode by clicking the gearwheel symbol on the upper right side of the start menu. In the resulting pop-menu you can switch to "offline mode". This way you do not need to connect to Battlelog and can start the single player campaign directly.

Prometheus Trailer II

Ender's Game

"I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will ever tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you when he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you. I am your enemy from now on. From now on, I am your teacher." -- Mazer Rackham in Ender's Game (1985) by Orson Scott Card.

Fan-tas-tic Military Science Fiction!

somebody I used to know

Another new annoying Firefox "feature" reversed

Remove those address bar shenanigans by changing

• browser.urlbar.formatting.enabled
• browser.urlbar.trimURLs

Update (Firefox 10)

• devtools.inspector.enabled

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

In general, I have a neutral stance when it comes to remakes of movies. Sometimes the remakes is better, sometimes (actually more often) the original. Yesterday I was was watching the remake of "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three", the original with Walter Matthau & Robert Shaw from 1974, the remake from 2009 with Denzel Washington and John Travolta.

Wow, what a difference. The original has a good cast with two outstanding lead actors and the story develops nicely. The remake has an even better overall cast, but the performance is underwhelming, which I mainly blame on the script (not the actors). It simply seems that everything interesting about the original story has been stripped from the story, e.g. the military style gang (each of the gang members with some distinctive features), the trick employed by the motorman to overcome the dead-man's switch was much more detailed and finally the hunt for the fleeing gang is much more vivid.

Original:1 vs. Remake: 0

Game of Thrones Seven Devils Trailer (2nd Season)

'Nuff said.