Peter Jackson has received a fair amount of criticism for stretching the 333 page The Hobbit into a trilogy of three hour movies. Which got Centives wondering: how long are other movies compared to the books they’re based on? And how does the amount of time spent per page affect the rating of the movie?

We took a look at books that have been turned into major mov Read the rest of this entry →

We decided to commemorate America’s Independence Day by watching Independence Day a movie where President Thomas J. Whitmore leads an squadron of fighter jets against an alien attack. Which got us wondering – what does Hollywood think a President should look like? We went throug Read the rest of this entry →

Dragons are cool, but you’d probably prefer their diet was something other than 3 year olds. While sheep make for a good substitute, the question is how many would you need? Well, the easiest way to calculate food requirements is to scale up a komodo dragon to fiery dragon size. A komodo dragon (10 foot long) requires about 816 kg of food per year, which is around 18 sheep. Read the rest of this entry →

“As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler or Nazi’s approaches 1”

Godwin’s Law

One of the surest ways to show that someone is bad is to liken them to a Nazi, thus ensuring that everyone listening knows that they gas minority groups and are definitely The Bad Guy. It’s also cheap, overdone and makes the offender look about as broad minded as the Naz- erm…the…uh… Read the rest of this entry →

It’s a Thursday morning, about 10am. Richard has just made another comment about your clothes. Mary ‘didn’t have time’ to type up the report. And the boss made comments suggesting overtime is inevitable.

The little voices start talking about lighters, crowbars and an alternative use for a stapler.

Only you don’t go through with any of it. Because for most people, most of the time, there is too much to lose by going evil. And so after careful consideration, you decide that defaulting on the mortgage isn’t worth the satisfaction of putting naughty pictures on the CEO’s PowerPoint.

If the good guys don’t go bad because it costs too much, presumably the bad guys don’t go good because it costs too much. What we’re asking today is, what exactly would bad guys hav Read the rest of this entry →