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Blood, Sweat and Tea
I saw Tom Reynolds give a talk about blogging from work a year or so ago at an NTK event, but I must admit, that I hadn’t really spent much time reading his blog. Blood, Sweat and Tea is a compendium of entries he’s made over the last couple of years or so, which means…
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ITV Must Carry on with Kids Programming
I’m delighted to learn that Ofcom has refused ITV permission to reduce their CITV coverage any further. As I’ve argued here before – if they don’t want to offer public service broadcasting, then they’re welcome to hand back their scarce spectrum resource and add themselves to the bottom of the list on the Sky EPG…
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My Father And Other Working Class Heroes
You may know Gary Imlach. He’s the man who for years has presented UK coverage of the Tour de France, first on Channel 4, and then more recently on ITV (with Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwin providing race commentary). Before that, he was a face on the Channel 4 coverage of American Football alongside sometime…
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Temeraire
Temeraire is set during the Napoleaonic wars. Nelson is battling against the French and he’s got Villeneuve and his fleet on the run. The Battle of Trafalgar has not yet been fought. Against this background we meet Captain Laurence who’s ship has just captured a French “prize”. On board is a large egg which he…
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The Power of Ten
I love this IBM video explaining relative distances. The Power of Ten… (Via Badscience)
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Football “Information”
It seems that the ticket agency in Piccadilly Circus tube station doesn’t now offer tickets to matches. It’s actually illegal in the UK to resell tickets to football matches due to crowd control issues, but giving out “information” isn’t. They even put the word in inverted commas.
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Digital Music Awards – Vote Rigging
The Digital Music Awards are now a fixture in the world of radio, and each year they canvas for votes from the public to pick their favourites in various categories, including “Best Radio Station”. The only problem with that is that the most popular seems certain to win. And when I say “popular” I mean,…
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Classic FM Download Service
Classic FM has launched a download service, and guess what? It’s offering mp3s using eMusic as their partner. This is a smart move, and I might even give the service a bit of a go. But a couple of things: 1) They really should be shouting a bit more about the fact that they’re offering…
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South Bank Show Online
The South Bank Show is one of those programmes that I always mean to watch, but then it ends up being on so late on a Sunday night that I simply don’t get around to it. I did want to see it last night, featuring a profile of author JG Ballard. But it turned out…
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The Demise of YouTube?
Mark Cuban’s completely correct in his analysis of YouTube, and why things can’t go on. I know that there’s this DCMS takedown setup, but how can a system that’s chock full of copyright material, and reliant on it for page impressions, not be responsible for itself? It’s really not the same as providing webspace. I’ve…
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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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