My ISP was having trouble so I decided to try and make a dent into the DVD backlog I have. I popped “Shark Tale” in and it started with some fluff for Madagascar - which is their next movie - and the Wallace & Gromit movie. I'd be interested in seeing both so I watched it anyway. And then to the movie itself.

Halfway through I manged to crash Nero and had to restart the DVD. Up pops the preview again and I go to flip to the menu or fast-forward but they've disabled both features. Excuse me? I paid real money for this and I don't expect to be forced to sit through ads again. What kind of idiot thinks up this kind of anti-feature.

Oh... speaking of shoddy customer service. Following on from Apple's blatant and possible illegal price fixing, I used their feedback form to ask why I couldn't access the Irish store. No answer a week later.

Warner Brothers is planning on “re-imagining” the Looney Tunes characters into a new series called “Loonatics”, set in 2772 and featuring updated, anime-ised descendants of the originals (ie Buzz Bunny is a martial arts expect with laser eyes - though whether he'll also cross-dress a lot has not been specified). Amongst discussion on the usual suspects there's a palable question of “why are they bending our childhood over the desk and abrubtly sodomising it?”

The answer of course is it's their job (and they can't help it if they enjoy it). And, given that despite initial scepticism, Battlestar Galactica is now seen as one of the better Sci-Fi shows on TV it's not impossible for Loonatics to not entirely suck... possibly.

But you still have to ask: if you're going to spend time and money coming up with characters so far from the originals you claim to be basing them on, what was the point, amongst fficial">all the coverage about... oh.

(Also, when does the copyright on Looney Tunes run out?)