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New York Times Reporter in Mid-air Collision
A terrifying account.
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Times Online TV
There’s been a bit of media coverage of a deal that The Times has done with its sister company Sky News, leading to Sky’s news being available on “Times Online TV” a streaming video service available on The Times’ website. Aside from the fact that this is surely not really news – two sister companies…
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Cinema Shuts For Two Weeks
Love this story. “The movies are so bad, and I don’t need the money. … I just didn’t think I should use my high-quality facilities to show people vomiting on-screen.”
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Sheringham Timelapse
A timelapse of Sheringham, 30 September. The clouds are coming nicely towards the camera, and the sun crosses the frame towards the end of a day that saw everything from clear skies to rain. A couple of glitches are the strange encoding at the start – something really doesn’t like matt blacks – and a…
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See the Stars in Reykjavik
What a fantastic idea! Reykjavik is turning all its street lights out on Thursday evening at 10pm for half an hour, and encouraging homes to as well. Then on national radio, astronomers will talk people through the night sky. Last week, when I was trying to take photos of the night sky, I was enormously…
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BBC Banned Update
Following on from my moan the other day about the ridiculousness of football managers “banning” the BBC from their press conferences or making any comments to them, it was pleasing to hear Chief Sports Writer of The Mirror, Oliver Holt, saying the same thing on Sportsweek this morning. He said it was a bit of…
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M&S Curiously Strong Mints Really Altoids In Disguise?
Marks & Spencer’s Curiously Strong Mints are just Altoids aren’t they? Altoids, although made in the UK (by Wrigleys), are notoriously hard to find here, whereas M&S mints are, well, pretty easy to get. They also tend to be about 6p more expensive. They both have nice and awfully useful tins though, which makes them…
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Getting Towards Sunset Over Sheringham
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BBC Banned
So following last week’s Panorama into football bungs, Sam Alladyce, the “embattled” Bolton manager has imposed a ban on the BBC at all his press conferences. He now joins Sir Alex Ferguson in refusing to talk to the BBC (Fergie is unhappy at the way his son was treated in a previous BBC documentary). Now if…
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ITV News Exclusive
The second item on tonights main news bulletin at 10.30pm was about breast cancer and featured an “exclusive” interview with Nicole Kidman. The words “ITV News Exclusive” stayed in vision for much of the interview. Well – they wouldn’t want the BBC to nick it would they?
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Boat on a Stormy Day
My favourite picture of this trip so far. Yes – a certain amount of processing has been applied, but it’s more to do with the power of RAW and using two versions of the photo blended into one. I spent a lot of time burning the clouds then undoing what I’d started. I think the…
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Happy 60th Radio 3
It’s the sixtieth anniversary of Radio 3, or The Third Programme as it once was. It might be reaching pensionable age (well, maybe another five years to go), but in this time of age discrimination, I don’t want to see it pensioned off! I commend Humphrey Carpenter’s The Envy of the World as a history…
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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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