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Show Your Support
Soccer Scene in Carnaby Street has two main windows which are regularly handed over to major football kit suppliers. So you’ll regularly see one window given over to Nike’s kit deal with Man Utd or Liverpool’s new Adidas away kit. This morning, there was a new window display for Puma featuring a red shirt I…
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Guardian on Usmanov
There’s a longish piece in this morning’s Guardian about Usmanov accompanied by a profile and the full text of an email exchange between him and The Guardian. He is once again denying involvement in some of the allegations he’s been accused of. Make your own mind up…
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Not Optimised For The IPhone
With the recent launch of the iPhone in the UK, suddenly we’re getting a spate of “we’ve optimised what we do for the iPhone” announcements. For example, Sky News has an iPhone friendly home page, while the BBC has streamlined its podcasts page for iPhones. A couple of things to say about this: 1) Isn’t…
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It’s A Kind of Magic
There was an excellent long piece by Bad Science’s Ben Goldacre in yesterday’s Guardian about the perils of homeopathy. Not only is there no evidence that it works (mainly because it’s founded on nonsensical designs), but homeopathic practitioners have actually suggested using their remedies for such killer diseases as malaria and even AIDS. Don’t forget,…
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Colossus Working Again
It’s great to hear that the team over at Bletchley Park has finished its rebuild of Colossus. This was one of the first programmable computers ever built, and it was used for code breaking towards the end of WWII. The photo above was taken a couple of years ago now when I visited Bletchley Park.…
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Ed Reardon – Series 4
A little advance warning that my favourite Radio 4 comedy is returning for a new series on Friday 16 November at 11.30am on Radio 4. Yes, Ed Reardon’s back on air, and he’s not downloadable as a podcast! powered by ODEO
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One Billion Viewers
Not this again. Today’s Telegraph has a banner at the top of the front page proclaiming that one billion people will be watching today’s Arsenal v Man Utd game. What on earth are they on about. One person in six is watching a UK club match? I think not. As I’ve said time and again,…
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Book Signings
Did you know that Christmas is coming? I was so annoyed when I saw my first Christmas advert on the 20th October. I can really do without sleigh bells before the clocks go back. Anyway, the Christmas season is well upon us now, and the celebrity books are rolling out left, right and centre. On…
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Voting on Strictly Come Dancing
OK, OK. I watch SCD as it’s known to afficiandos. Anyway, I have a serious question. In these days of total accountability, why does the BBC not publish absolute voting numbers for the programme. The reason that I, or anyone else watching the programme, am interested, is that on Sunday, the two celebrities who faced…
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Bladerunner
I’m really looking forward to Bladerunner: The Final Cut, essentially a big DVD boxset that’ll be the final version of Bladerunner, a classic SF film that’s definitely up amongst my favourites, but which has a troubled version history. But it’s a little disingenuous, for Ridley Scott to claim to claim that he has an aversion…
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The Cotton Fields of Uzbekistan
There was a great film on Newsnight last night highlighting the child labour abuse in Uzbekistan where during the autumn the schools all close and children are sent off to pick the cotton. They don’t have any choice in the matter, and they sleep away from their homes. This cotton is then sold by the…
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Local Radio
It’s probably best that I don’t comment too much on this issue just at the minute (In my current position I’m directly involved in this issue. At some point in the future I hope I will be able to blog about it). But I’ll point you towards a Media Guardian Organ Grinder blog entry about…
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Yellowface/All The Lovers In The Night
Yellowface by R F Kuang I first came across R F Kuang with last year’s very enjoyable Babel, an alternate history of the British Empire told in a world where magic exists and is controlled by an elite group of individuals. Yellowface is very different, but no less enjoyable. It’s a book about books, and…
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