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Various Bits
A couple of entertaining bits from this week’s Media Guardian. Anthony Lilley of Magic Lantern productions bemoans the BBC’s iPlayer, and in particular the pointlessness of the limitation in how long after a programme’s aired you can still get a download. And allied to that is the expiration date on programmes. He does point out…
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David Lynch Says Don’t Litter
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Top Gear and Toyota
Last week, BBC2 aired a special edition of Top Gear, in which Jeremy Clarkson and James May drove a vehicle to the “North Pole” against Richard Hammond who was on sledge pulled by huskies. Now while it was as entertaining as ever with lots of boisterousness as is the norm, there are three specific issues…
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Random Notes
Dave Gorman is stopped from taking photos of funfair rides because he might be up to no good and trying to take pictures of children. Even when he shows that he’s completely innocent, the police tell him to leave. The daily newspaper I once worked for, The Bath Chronicle, is becoming a weekly newspaper. It’s…
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Copyright Extensions Rejected – The Music Industry Response
The coverage of the Government’s rejection of extending performance copyright in Music Week (the industry trade magazine – all behind a paywall) is surprisingly muted. There’s just a piece on page 6 indicating that the fight must now be taken to Europe, and an editorial that somehow saw this singular decision as a failure to…
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Digital TV Switchover
As many now know, digital television switchover begins in the UK this autumn with Whitehaven being the first town to go fully digital. Then, starting next year, a rollout across the rest of the country begins, starting in the Borders TV regions and ending in London, the southeast, the northeast and Ulster in 2012. Regular…
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Transformers
I had a bit of a hangover, and despite being one of the few sunny days, I thought I’d go and see one of this week’s big movies. I don’t normally talk about films as movies, but I think these two count. So it was either The Simpsons Movie or Transformers. My local multiplex was…
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Electricity
Another book recommended by Scott Pack via his blog. Electricity is a novel about Lily who’s a teenage epileptic. She lives in a seaside town somewhere in Yorkshire, and the only real family she has is her brother Barry. There was another brother, but he was sent away when she was little, and she’s not…
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Tour de France and Cheats
So what are we meant to think about the proceedings at The Tour de France this year? To re-cap, we first had T-Mobile rider Patrik Sinkewitz testing positive for elevated levels of testosterone from a test during the beginning of June. He was immediately kicked out of the Tour, but in Germany things went a…
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Copyright Extension Rejected
The government has come out and rejected calls to extend copyright on music performances from 50 years as it currently stands. As I’ve said on a number of occasions, this is suddenly a hot potato because Elvis and Beatles tracks are suddenly falling out of copyright in this country, and a cash cow is finally…
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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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