Nintendo Wii!

Went to see the other week. Bank job/heist film. Easier on the soul than I expected from a Spike Lee joint. Some really flashy takes and set pieces. Plot probably overdone towards the end, but I guess that goes with the heist genre. I wouldn't want to see it again too soon, but good stuff nonetheless.

Had a quick waltz across a list of this summer's cinema releases the other day. Here's a few that caught my eye:

Scandium Tubeset; Carbon-Fibre Seatstays; Light + Pimpy

...possession of a stolen WMD, insurgency, animal cruelty, kidnapping, murder...

What a bad bollix!

Spent Sunday afternoon in the pub shouting Munster on to a proper pasting of Leinster in the European Rugby Cup semi-final. One moment in Clohessy's you could hear a pin drop as kicks were taken and a fantastic second later your hearing saturated as the crowd roared the ball over the bar. I doubt there are many places in the world where a sport and a team are held in such reverence. What a buzz! People were jumping on the furniture as O'Gara and Halstead ran in the two tries at the end of the game.

Today Michael Schumacher broke Ayrton Senna's record of 65 career Formula 1 pole positions at Imola, where Ayrton took the last of those poles on the eve of his death.

Here's the incomparable Senna at Spa Francorchamps in 1991, from a race series at its pinnacle before its slide into a sad anaemic charade dictated by pit strategy, stripped of its heroes and flamboyance. Or was it just that I was still a fan?

595g of 3al/2.5v titanium, carbon fibre, aluminium alloy and magnesium...

RC31 Ti fixed length fork[Pace Cycles]

This was too beautiful not to stick up here. Perhaps it's a suitable candidate for a little computer program sometime? Buddha in the machine...

...sometimes you just need a €149 carbon-fibre cup, spoon and saucer.