I'm glad to report that The Dark Knight lived up to both the hype, and my high expectations. I saw it in a sold out cinema on Sunday night, and three days on, I'm still buzzed.

The film ran for just over 150mins, but there was not a single moment where I felt compelled to check my watch. The film was 'gritty' and 'dark', everything a Batman movie should be. Paired with Batman Begins, these two movies have done enough to erase the terrible 1990's Batman outings from my mind.

Without trying to outline the entire plot, The Dark Knight covers the emergence of the Joker as well as the idea that Gotham City has two protectors, Harvey Dent as the White Knight to Batman's Dark Knight. A large part of the film deals with Batman/Bruce Wayne positioning Harvey Dent as the hero that Batman could never be, with a view to retiring the Batman persona.
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Here's a quick follow up to yesterdays post "How To Improve Your Technorati Rank".

Yesterday my Technorati rank was 91,357, as of writing this it is 88,547.

Another interesting point is that yesterday if you'd search Google for "improve your technorati rank", there would have been no sign of SwollenPickles.com. Run that same search today and SwollenPickles.com is currently sitting at the top of the search results list. Incredible. Maybe it's time I wrote an eBook and sold it for $9.98 Recommended Retail...

Are you looking to improve your Technorati rank?

A bold experiment

I read an article on Untwisted Vortex detailing how to improve your Technorati rank. RT is conducting an ongoing experiment to determine if blogs participating in the project will experience and improvement in their Technorati ranking as a result.

As RT rightly points out, a blogs Technorati rank is not based on how many "Fans" your blog has.

Your Technorati ranking is basically calculated on the number of incoming links to your blog, whilst the 'Authority' rating is based on the number of blogs that have linked to your blog.

Technorati rank explained

If you're new to blogging and/or haven't heard of Technorati before today then it's time to get yourself acquainted. Technorati can basically be thought of as a tracker of the blogosphere, keeping track of over 50 million blogs. Technorati keeps a track of who is linking to who in the blogging world, and builds rankings in a similar fashion to how Google rank their search engine results.

So basically Technorati gives you something else to worry about in addition to the mythical Google Page Rank. Just as backlinks can improve your ranking in Google search results, backlinks from other blogs increase your overall Technorati rank (which compares your blog to all the others listed in the Technorati index).

For the record, my Technorati rank at the time of writing this is 91,357. Ideally I'd like it to be less than 50,000 by the end of 2008.

This video cracks me up. You wouldn't think one kid biting another kids finger could be funny, but you'd be wrong.

I'm not sure if this has been on funniest home videos or not, but it probably deserves a spot.

What gets me is that first up, the kid sticks his finger in there and realizes it hurts a little, but goes back for seconds none the less.

If nothing else, this clip proves how resilient kids can be.

As with anything clean and innocent, there's always someone out there capable of taking it straight to the gutter. Hence, this adult themed remix... consider that your warning...

So unclean...

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I heard rumors that this game was on the drawing board but I had no idea that its development was so far down the track. I loved the first Marvel: Ultimate Alliance game, and if the sequel picks up where that one left off then it should be a cracker.

For comic geeks the first Marvel: Ultimate Alliance game it is a must, and is the only game I own both an Xbox and Xbox 360 version of. Word on the street is that Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 will be out some time in the third quarter of 2008.

Nice... now I need a cold shower...

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What would happen if Cadbury and Nestle joined in a merger? Chocolate chaos, that's what! No doubt there product range would have to under go a few minor changes.

Apparently the concept of a merger has already been thought out by someone with far to much time on his/her hands...

So here's a glimpse of what the product range might look like if every the two confectionery giants join forces.

WARNING: What follows may contain adult themes and some traces of nuts.
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