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Annoying Beyond Belief…
Think of the two most annoying and irritating people you can. Really, really irritating people. We’re talking the kind of people that make you long for the sound of fingernails on a blackboard. Got them? Now check out the back of this week’s Review section of the Independent on Sunday. Here are the two people…
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Tag
Via Velorution, I loved this short film: The music’s still a temp track seemingly, and there’s an ealier cut (in colour) also on YouTube. It reminds me of a great French short called Argent Content featuring rollerskating bank robbers. Lots of bullet cam shots and plenty of central London in this video.
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Sky on Freeview
Well. Very interesting news about Sky getting properly into the Freeview act. Sky currently has three channels on Freeview that show Sky News, Sky Sports News and Sky Three. The first two are as you’d expect, but the third was essentially created for the Freeview platform to highlight Sky One shows a little later. So…
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Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
You may have noticed it snowed today. At least it did if you live in England or Wales. Here’s a photo of said snow that I took earlier. Anyway, the local news on BBC1 this evening had the usual travel chaos/schools closed story that’s par for the course on days like today. But it ended…
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How Many Video Players On A Single Page Can You Get?
Well? The answer according to the new-look mirror.co.uk is three! One on the left, one on the right, and a big one in the middle! A word of advice – don’t try playing them all at once. The planets get into alignment or something and bad things happen… Roy Greenslade at Mediaguardian shares his thoughts…
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Radio Gaming
Lots of excitement from Unique about them getting Chris Tarrant back onto commercial radio to host a series of programmes called Small Price 2 Pay. Tarrant is quoted as saying: “I am very excited about this new project for digital radio, where once again I find myself in the hot seat, giving away big cash…
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Google Maps On Your Mobile
Google recently introduced an application for Windows Mobile phones that lets you view Google Maps neatly and quickly on your mobile phone. This is a great little app which is wonderfully useful. No longer will I have to remember to printout a paper map before I set off somewhere new. On GPRS, the maps load…
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To Be DRM’d or Not To Be DRM’d
Steve Jobs has posted a long piece on the future of DRM in music. It seems that he can see the writing on the wall, and he ends the piece effectively arguing for the abolition of DRM (“It wasn’t out idea guv! The record companies insisted on it.”). There’s a certain amount of self-interest here.…
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Screenwipe
Hurrah! Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe is back, and the first episode featured Ian Rowland, the acknowledged master of cold reading. He was part of a sequence that tore into one of the most exploitative programmes currently being made – Psychic Private Eyes – in which vulnerable people are told complete bollocks by so-called psychics who are…
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News About Someone Else
I always like to keep abreast of news of my namesake.
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It Was National Gorilla Suit Day The Other Day
(Obviously – that’ll have been “national” in the sense of US national – but nevermind)
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Gotta Love Dave Barry
He live blogs 24 each week, and boy is he a prolific blogger by the way… But there’s a great quote from him about the Superbowl which is being held in Miami this Sunday: “[The Superbowl is] the biggest sporting event in the world, unless you include other parts of the world.” (via Mediaguardian)
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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…
Hadrian’s Wall
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