Fastest Cricket Player to reach 2000 runs

I'm not sure many of you know this but Hashim Amla just broke a record today. He became the fastest batsmen to reach 2 000 runs in One Day Internationals. He did it in 40 innings, whereas the previous record holder did it in 45 innings. What an awesome achievement! See the top 10 below:                                                                          

Player - Time - Number of Innings

1. Hashim Amla (SA) -  2y 318d - 40
2. Zaheer Abbas (Pak) - 9y 32d - 45
3. KP Pieterson (ENG) - 2y 144d - 45
4. IVA Richardson (WI) - 8y 8d - 48
5. CG Greenidge (WI) - 8y 124d - 49
6. G Kirsten (SA) - 2y 297d - 50
7. DC Boon (Aus) - 3y 129d - 52
8. AH Jones (NZ) - 3y 129d - 52
9. NS Sidhu (India) - 5y 146d - 52
10. SC Ganguly (India) - 6y 86d - 52

See the complete list here

Greatest Cars from TV Shows

Every TV Show with some kind of hero must have an awesome car! I found this very cool infographic showing the 10 greatest cars from TV Shows. What do you think? Nothing can beat the bat mobile!                                
                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                              


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Golden Globe winners 2011

So last night was the Golden Globe awards. It is not quite on the level of the Oscars but it still gives you a reasonably good idea on who will take the Oscars. I’m not surprised The Social Network took the title of Motion Picture of the year. Do yourself a favour and compare the list of winners with my previous post about best and worst movies of 2010.

MOTION PICTURE CATEGORIES

BEST MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA
The Social Network

BEST MOTION PICTURE, MUSICAL OR COMEDY
The Kids Are All Right

FOREIGN LANGUAGE PICTURE
In A Better World, Denmark

BEST DIRECTOR
David Fincher, The Social Network

BEST DRAMATIC ACTOR
Colin Firth, The King's Speech

BEST DRAMATIC ACTRESS
Natalie Portman, Black Swan

BEST ACTOR, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Paul Giamatti, Barney's Version

BEST ACTRESS, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christian Bale, The Fighter

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Melissa Leo, The Fighter

ANIMATED FILM
Toy Story 3

SCREENPLAY
Aaron Sorkin, The Social Network

ORIGINAL SCORE
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, The Social Network

SONG
‘You Haven't Seen the Last of Me’ (music and lyrics by Diane Warren),Burlesque

So the Social Network took 4 Golden Globes. I have to congratulate Christian Bale for winning in his category, even though I haven’t seen the film. Christian Bale is awesome, any guy who plays Batman is awesome…except George Clooney.

TELEVISION CATEGORIES DRAMATIC TV SERIES Boardwalk Empire BEST ACTOR, TV DRAMA Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire BEST ACTRESS, TV DRAMA Katy Sagal, Sons of Anarchy TV SERIES, MUSICAL OR COMEDY Glee BEST ACTOR, TV MUSICAL OR COMEDY Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory BEST ACTRESS, TV MUSICAL OR COMEDY Laura Linney, The Big C BEST MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION Carlos BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MINISERIES OR A MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION Claire Danes, Temple Grandin BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MINISERIES OR A MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION Al Pacino, You Don't Know Jack BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION Jane Lynch, Glee BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION Chris Colfer, Glee CECIL B. DEMILLE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Robert De Niro

I’m a bit disappointed that Michael C Hall didn’t win for best Actor. But I’m glad Jim Parson from The Bing Bang Theory won! I know Boardwalk Empire started showing recently in South Africa, maybe it is worth taking a look.

See the winners and nominations here

Superhero Movies Infographic

Check this very interesting infographic of past Superhero movies. Hollywood is not holding back when it comes to releasing Superhero movies. But I must admit a few of them are pretty cool. My favorite being the Batman movies of course!

Fastest Guitar Solo

See how guitarist Tiago Della Vega attempts to break his own world record for fastest guitar solo. His current record was 320bpm. Here he attempts to do 340bpm!

Read more about him on Wikipedia here

Best and Worst Movies of 2010

To start of this post, I need to introduce you to one of the best critic websites on the internet, namely Metacritic.

What they do is they take multiple reviews of a game, movie, albums, or a TV series, and they calculate an average for all the reviews to give you 1 rating for that item. See the picture below.

So usually when metacritic says a movie or a game is crap, then it probably is.

Anyway, they compiled a list of the best and worst movies of 2010. This gives you the perfect opportunity to pretend that you are a movie expert. So if somebody needs to know whether a movie is good or bad, they can ask you.

But you must remember these aren’t necessarily the movies that made the most money in 2010, but the movies that got the best reviews.  In other words, it’s usually art films or foreign films that get the best ratings. If you live in South Africa, it’s the movies that only show in Cinema Nouveau. But seeing that Metacritic is so awesome, they compiled a list consisting only of major film releases (i.e. no art films which we haven’t heard of anyway)

To avoid making this post too long, I will only mention the top 5 in each category.

The Best Major Releases of 2010.

1.       The social Network ( “Facebook Movie”)

2.       Toy Story 3

3.       The King’s Speech

4.       The Kids are all right

5.       True gift

One of my favorite movies of 2010 was Inception of Leonardo Di Caprio which is on nr 11 if you wanted to know.

The Worst Major Releases of 2010

1.       Vampires Suck

2.       The Last Airbender

3.       Killers

4.       The Bounty Hunter

5.       Furry Vengeance

Note nr 2. This is the latest movie by M. Night Shyamalan who made Sixth Sense a few years ago. Shame, the dude just cannot repeat the success of that movie.  Saw 3D is nr 6 on this list. I actually like the Saw films.

See the article here

Just to make this post even more interesting, metacritic also asked their users to vote for their favorite movies of 2010. But remember they do not necessarily have the best critic reviews, but were the most popular.

1.       Inception

2.       The Social Network

3.       Toy Story 3

4.       Black Swan

5.       Scott Pilgrim vs The World

They also voted for the worst movies of the year but they only mentioned the top 3.

1.       The Last Airbender

2.       Sex and the City 2

3.       Vampires Sick

They also asked their users to vote for their favorite game and TV show of the year. But I will leave that for another post. If you are interested, click here

South African cricket players in IPl2011

Not sure if you followed the auction for the Indian Premier League that was held this past weekend. Well if you didn’t, here is a summary of all the South African Players that were bought. It’s quite a lot of money considering it’s only for 2 seasons of cricket, where each season is only a couple of weeks long!

Player Name	IPL Team	Cost (USD)
Dale Steyn	Deccan Chargers	$1,200,000.00
AB de Villiers	Royal Challengers Bangalore	$1,100,000.00
Jacques Kallis	Kolkata Knight Riders	$1,100,000.00
Johan Botha	Rajasthan Royals	$950,000.00
Albie Morkel (retained)	Chennai Super Kings	$500,000.00
Graeme Smith	Pune Warriors	$500,000.00
Morne Morkel	Delhi Daredevils	$475,000.00
JP Duminy	Deccan Chargers	$300,000.00
Davy Jacobs	Mumbai Indians	$190,000.00
Wayne Parnell	Pune Warriors	$160,000.00
Charl Langeveldt	Royal Challengers Bangalore	$140,000.00
Faf du Plessis	Chennai Super Kings	$120,000.00
Alfonso Thomas	Pune Warriors	$100,000.00
Colin Ingram	Delhi Daredevils	$100,000.00
Rusty Theron	Deccan Chargers	$85,000.00
Roelof van der Merwe	Delhi Daredevils	$50,000.00
Johan van der Wath	Royal Challengers Bangalore	$50,000.00
Rilee Rossouw	Royal Challengers Bangalore	$20,000.00
Jonathan Vandiar	Royal Challengers Bangalore	$20,000.00
Robert Frylinck	Delhi Daredevils	$20,000.00

If you want to see the complete list of players click here

If you want to read the rules of the auction, click here

Most Powerful People in the World

Have you ever wondered who are the most powerful people in the world? Well Forbes have formulated a list of the top 68 most powerful people. But I have only included the top 5. As you will see, the top 5 mainly consists of presidents and religious figures. But if you look at the rest of the list, you will see some entrepeneursor even outlaws. Forbes looked at a couple things to determine the ranking, namely does the person have influence over a lot of people? Population for a head of state, number of employees for a CEO, and the size of the audience for a media figure. Secondly they looked at the financial resources of each person. This entitled comparing GDP’s for political leaders, net worth for the billionaires, and Global Ranking of companies of the CEO’s. They also looked at if the person is influential in multiple areas. For instance, the Prime Minister of Italy being the owner of AC Milan soccer team.

 Okay so here it is.

1.     Hu Jintao – President of China.

2.    Barack Obama – President of USA

3.   Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud – King of Saudi Arabia

Considering they have the world’s largest reserve of crude oil in the world, this is an obvious choice.

4.   

  4.   Vladimir Putin – Prime Minister of Russia

5.  Pope Benedict XVI

Some interesting ranks are:

Bill Gates (Microsoft) – 10

Steve Jobs ( Apple) – 17

The 2 founders of Google – 22 & 23.  They aren’t the household names like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, or Mark Zukerburg. Hhhmmm wonder why?

Mark Zukerburg ( Facebook) – 40

Osama Bin Laden ( Al – Queda) – 57

See the complete list here 

2012 most absurd science movie

Have you ever seen the movie 2012? While watching it, did you at some stage think “ this is absolutely ridiculous!”?. Well you are not the only one. Apparently NASA has awarded the movie 2012 as the most absurd science-fiction film, i.e. it IS ridiculous!

The movie is pretty much about the 2012 phenomenon that the world is going to end on 21 December 2012. Add a minor storyline and some budget and you have the motion picture 2012.

Here is a trailer of the movie:

Metacritic  also did not give the movie very good ratings (49/100) which is not very surprising. 

See the article here.

NASA even had to create a FAQ page regarding the issue. See it here.