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Northern Rock
A very unfortunate ad from the Northern Rock building society at the foot of the front page of The Guardian’s sports section today. Five months is how long Owen looks like he’s going to be out for. [UPDATE] Northern Rock are pulling the ads.
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Football on ITV
I really hate those England games that ITV shows. They’re just painful to watch. Not because of all the ad breaks. Not because Steve Rider’s just dull. And not because those sponsorship breakers are just unfunny. No. The real problem is that ITV gives its big games to that dynamic commentary duo of Clive Tyldesley…
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Guardian Printed on Demand
The Guardian are launching yet another very smart online initiative. You’ll be able to go online to The Guardian’s site and print on demand a PDF news document that’s updated throughout the day every fifteen minutes. By choosing from five areas (general news, international, economics, sport and media) you’ll end up with a 8-12 document…
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MyCokeMusic is Closed
Two years after MyCokeMusic launched, and it closes down. I can’t say I’m really surprised since the OD2 service they had working for them was relatively poor if you wanted music from outside the mainstream. But it just goes to show that even the might of Coca Cola doesn’t guarantee online music sales success. And…
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US Footie Coverage
You know those really annoying Budweiser football analysts that ITV have in their sponsorship credits? They’re the ones who are only marginally more annoying than the EDF ones. Well I decided, using the power of the internet, to try out ESPN2 coverage of tonight’s Spain v Tunisia fixture. First of all, the picture I got…
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Desperate Networks
Bill Carter is a TV writer on the New York Times who previously wrote a book called The Late Shift which detailed the events surrounding the battle between Jay Leno and David Letterman to take over The Tonight Show on NBC. Obviously, this didn’t have an exactly massive impact in the UK, although the TV…
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Blood and Sand
Frank Gardner is the BBC’s Security Correspondent, who was shot five times and nearly killed in Saudi Arabia in 2004. His cameraman, Simon Cumbers, who was filming with him at the time, did not survive the attack. Gardner opens his biography with that attack – no waiting around until page 300 for the inevitable. Now…
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Depressing
Seen on the tube this evening: a kid in his generic Orson/Feeder type t-shirt with a Download Festival wristband. That is to say, he hasn’t removed his plastic wristband from a concert that was over a week ago. Oh dear… Incidentally, I discover that it only takes 10,000 single sales to make the Top 10…
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Bad News, Good News
Blair on 606? Oh dear… They Think It’s All Over ends. Having caught a recent “World Cup” episode this really hasn’t come soon enough.
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Bits and Pieces
A nice profile of Arnuldur Indriðason in the Guardian Review yesterday. I’ve been catching up with the World Cup over the last couple of days – culminating in watching all three matches today. I did get out in the morning spending a pleasant time cycling around Hertfordshire. Here’s a nice pub I found:
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More Screen Wipe
Hurrah!
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Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler
I recently bought a copy of the new album recorded by Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler, really out of shear curiorisity. Of course I’m familiar with Knopfler, Brothers in Arms having been one of the first albums I ever bought (and curiously one of the few albums I’ve ever owned in three formats – vinyl,…
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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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