Lewis Hamilton Becomes F1 World Champion –

McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton became the youngest world champion in Formula One history by the skin of his teeth after a thrilling Brazilian Grand Prix. The 23-year-old Englishman’s title rival Felipe Massa won the race in his Ferrari but Hamilton grabbed the fifth place he needed at the last corner.

Yesterday was one of those days when you just feel proud to be British. It was a bit touch and go at the end but Lewis managed to pull through and get those extra points. I feel terrible for Massa, he did everything that was asked of him. In the end I think it was his car that let him down.

Congratulations Lewis, I know how hard you’ve worked for that title – you deserve it!

Chris Thomson And Michael Mistretta Launch Fusion Ads –

Fusion aims to provide advertisers with a targeted and effective platform to distribute their messages to an influential audience at an affordable price. We invite advertisers to make well-designed ads that are attractive to our readers.

I thought of The Deck as soon as I saw the site, very simple and very select, interestingly enough, I read all the blogs that are part of the advertisers network.

However, I do have a couple of questions that the site doesn’t answer. For one, if the amount of sites on the network goes up – does the price of advertising also increase? And even though Fusion is invite only so they don’t need to specify on the site; I would be interested to know what cut of the revenue Fusion makes.

And finally, how did Chris and Michael come up with ‘The Plank’ as the code-name? I can only guess that it’s a pun on ‘The Deck’.

Christopher Nolan On Three Movie Franchises –

On a more superficial level, I have to ask the question: How many good third movies in a franchise can people name? [Laughs.] At the same time, in taking on the second one, we had the challenge of trying to make a great second movie, and there haven’t been too many of those either. It’s all about the story really. If the story is there, everything is possible. I hope that was a suitably slippery answer.

That said, I hope he tries to break the trend.

[Via Kyle Baxter]

Ars Technica on the new Call of Duty 5 Multiplayer –

Each player now has a fourth vehicle perk which privileges sitting in a certain part of the jeeps or tanks (say, faster turret turning). Of course, given the infantry-focused action of the previous game and its subsequent tight balance, the vehicles in World at War feel somewhat out of place.

I wish that was the only negative thing they had to say about the game. I’m kind of disappointed that they don’t think it’s up to scratch, Call of Duty 4 was such a great game – especially on the multiplayer side of things.

This just strengthens my belief that Infinity Ward still make the best Call of Duty games.

Chris Bowler Interviews Michael Mistretta -

If you’ve got a lot of free time (enough to read about 7000 words) then check out this fantastic interview, they cover such topics of education, GTD and of course; blogging.

Being the nosy sod I am, I was very interested in seeing how Michael manages to allocated his free time – of course it then turned out he had a lot more than most due to his homeschooling. I just wish I had the commitment to be able to sit down and get school related work done without being threatened.

Of course check out Michael’s blog if you haven’t, that’s sure not to disappoint (I owe him a link anyways as I got rid of my blogroll with the design change).

The Best MacBook Pro Review –

So far out of all the new MacBook Pro reviews, the best has been from ArsTechnica. It’s actually posted in two parts and covers, in a lot of detail, the gaming performance – something that I was especially interested in.

If you’re still undecided if you want to purchase one; check out this review.