In her revenge, Boudica and her army cut people up, impaled them on skewers, and crucified and hanged them.Culture Club/Getty ImagesBoudica or Boadicea, Queen of the British Iceni tribe, a Celtic tribe who led an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
If Boudica, the British Celtic queen was alive today, she’d attest to that proverb.
Queen Boudica is not alive — given that she was born around A. Read More...
The stellar performance of the Xeons based on the Nehalem and Westmere architectures had a dark side for Intel: it cast a big shadow on Intel's top of the line Xeon 7400 series. You can talk about RAS features all you want but when a dual-CPU configuration outperforms quad-CPU configurations of your top-of-the-line CPU, something is wrong. And if this happens in the applications the latter is supposed to excel in, something is very wrong. Read More...
Tobey Maguire called out his upside-down kiss in Spider-Man as “torture” to film in a newly resurfaced interview. In celebration of the movie’s 20th anniversary, fans are taking a look back at previous comments from Tobey about the blockbuster, including one where he said he went through a grueling process to capture the moment Kirsten Dunst’s Mary Jane smooched his Peter Parker, aka your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. In the 2002 flick, Mary Jane plants a wet one on the web-slinger, who is hanging upside down after he saved her from being attacked in an alley. Read More...