James Bond's Aston Martin DB5: £2.5 million

 

Actually, it's Q's Aston Martin and he's not happy at how 007 took care of it.  Honestly, these field agents; no respect for government property.

This car is the reason I drive a ratty Chevy Blazer with a blown cylinder.  If I can't have a DB5 with machine guns, I don't give a fig what I drive.

Waste not, want not

Popular Science looks at how nuclear weapons are recycled. Here is one recycling effort in action.

Quantum of Solace

Finally saw Quantum of Solace the other day and I have never come across a greater collection of snobbery, male chauvinism, material excess, unhealthy eating and drinking, and gratuitous sex and violence in my life.

God, I loved it.

M, Call Your Service

The golden gun featured in the 1974 James Bond film has been stolen from Elstree studios.

Police are looking for a man with three nipples accompanied by a dwarf.

Quantum of Solace

I think they've fleshed out Ian Fleming's short story a bit.

Kill Bond Now!

The production of the latest Bond film has been plagued by a series of near fatal accidents.

Very large man with steel teeth seen hanging around set.

A Pity I'm Allergic to Cats

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It's as I've always suspected

Tank Engine, Thomas the Tank Engine.

Who cares if Pierce Brosnan got the sack as James Bond? He's finally landed the role he was born to play.

Bond Books

Are Ian Fleming's James Bond novels mere pulp or literature suffering at the hands of blinkered snobbery?

Ben Macintyre is there.

Marmite-- Mr. Marmite

Could be worse. I nearly ended up getting a similar gig as a frog except I couldn't fit into the costume.

Bond Watch

One of my most vivid cinematic memories is seeing Roger Moore wearing the first Hamilton Pulsar 'P2 2900' in Live & Let Die back in 1973. It was a massive steel hockey puck of a watch that needed to be operated with the other hand to display the time, sucked batteries dry like they were mai tais, and cost close to a thousand quid, but it was still one of the coolest gadgets in the film because it had FUTURE stamped on it in large, friendly letters.

Over at Watchismo, there's a neat little retrospective on the timepieces of 007. The Bond films had a lot of spiffy gadget watches sporting everything from built-in garrote wires, buzz saw, grapples, Geiger counters, homing devices, lasers, and detonators-- everything for the man on the go.

Some could even tell time.

Update: For more espionage goodness, there's this item on real-life camera watches.

Bond 22

The rumour is that the next James Bond film will based on Ian Fleming's short story "Risico".

It's a good job they found an unadapted story, otherwise they'd have been making a film out of the copyright notices.