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New Folk
I was going to get on my new bike today (more anon), but the weather forecast was poor, so I settled down to a lot of BBC Four’s recent Folk Britannia season that I’d saved on my PVR. First up were a couple of concerts from Celtic Connections in Glasgow. They’re all available to view…
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Eurostar not quite in St Pancras yet
Coming home from the London Drinker Beer and Cider festival in Camden Hall, Kings Cross, James got very excited when he saw this sign in the Euston Road underpass: It’s a Eurostar sign all ready for when St Pancras opens to Eurostar trains in 2007. Obviously they only wanted to make the sign once.
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Dan Brown Case
As many people know, there’s an ongoing court case between Dan Brown, writer of The Da Vinci Code, and a couple of the authors of a piece of cod-history called The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail which was published quite a few years ago. At first glance, it seems as though it’s a battle…
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Mobile Downloads
Orange just sent me an email promoting their usual stuff – films, music, downloads etc. I was curious about what they were doing with V for Vendetta, so I followed the link. There I learnt I could download various media… except that I can’t. Each time the 247 code that I should text to receive…
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28.8 Billion Watch The World Cup
There’s a nice World Cup supplement with this week’s Marketing Week highlighting opportunities and thing to steer clear of when you try to link the World Cup with your products this summer. On the one hand you, seemingly, can’t use the following words in your promotional material if you’re not a sponsor: FIFA, FIFA World…
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Death of a Planetarium
All very sad.
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Dispatches
A new run of the Channel 4 series, Dispatches, has started up recently. I’ve only watched a few, Peter Oborne’s report on losing our liberty, and this evening’s report by Rod Liddle on evangelical Christians. I also saw the Ryanair exposé. Now I won’t get into the rights and wrongs of the content of the…
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I Met Stewie
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Cream Eggs
I don’t especially like them, but I was curious about Tesco’s strange pricing policy in regard to Cream Eggs. Maybe it’s to disincentivise us and thus prevent us making ourselves sick. So you can buy 3 for 99p: Get a 3 “pack” for £1.02: Or if you want 6 it’ll cost you £2.07: Each time,…
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Expositary Titles
I think it was Charlie Brooker who first pointed out in Screen Burn (coming to BBC4 this Thursday as Screen Wipe) who first pointed out how expository programme titles are now. Thus tonight, we have a collission of “Reals” with The Real Dad’s Army on C4 up directly against The Real Rain Man on Five.…
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Ricky Gervais
For the last twelve weeks, the Ricky Gervais podcast has been at the top of the iTunes chart in both Britain and the US. Indeed it even got awarded a Guinees Book of Records award as the most listened to podcast (albeit that there are other podcasts out there, distriubtedly significantly beyond iTunes, that may…
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Bird Flu Horror
Tonight’s Evening Standard had a headline: “Lock Up All Chickens” on at least one edition. Don’t they know that most chickens spend all their lives caged up anyway, often in spaces the size of an A4 piece of paper. A few weeks ago the FA announced that from next season, energy company E.ON would be…
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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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