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Fun With Batteries
OK – from the outset, can I just point out that I seriously don’t recommend that you attempt to replicate the “experiments” I’m about to describe. I should also point out that while I didn’t plan on doing either of these things, it doesn’t take a genius to work out that it’s possible. Experiment 1…
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America Wakes Up To 21st Century Radio
Last week something really big happened in American radio – Howard Stern, the archetypal “Shock Jock” announced that he would be leaving terrestrial radio, and heading to one of the two satellite radio service operators, Sirius Satellite Radio. This is big news for two reasons. One, Sirius is the smaller of the two competing systems…
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Christopher Reeve
Very sad news about Christopher Reeve today. Only last week, I dug out my old Superman bubble gum cards from the first film. That series was nearly as popular as Star Wars with my brother and I when we were younger. And I still struggle to recall what the fatal flaw with the plan that…
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A Teaspoon of Sugar…
Well maybe not quite a teaspoon of sugar. I’ve just been watching this week’s Panorama all about sugar and the underhand goings on that the sugar lobby have been up to. As I mentioned earlier in the year, big sugar has tried to flex its muscles in the past. Sugar is a big big business,…
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Death by Hollywood
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BBC News 24
In December 2002, Richard Lambert published a report through the Department of Culture Media and Sport reviewing the BBC’s 24 hour television news channel. The Independent Review of BBC News 24 (PDF) was published at a time when the channel was underperforming in comparison to Sky News, and questions were being asked about what it…
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Pete McCarthy
This has come as a bit of a bolt from the blue. He was only 51, and a very talented performer and writer. Disdainful though I sometimes am of that category of books, I do like reading them.
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Jack Tanner
Well, BBC Four are giving us a reshowing Tanner ’88 nightly from Saturday 23 October at 11.00pm until the following Thursday. And we get the newly filmed introductions that were done for the Sundance Channel’s reshowings. With the election happening the following Tuesday, I guess that Tanner on Tanner will be shown over the weekend…
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Science on TV and Radio
I know, I know. I’m always going on about this. But I don’t apologise for revisiting it, because it’s so important. This year marks the 40th anniversary of Horizon, and the new series started a few weeks ago, and has already produced a couple of very interesting episodes. This week’s was an examination of whether…
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Paddington Flashmob
As a follow up to my entry doubting whether Flashmob The Opera would go ahead at Paddington Station yesterday, it’s worth noting that it did indeed. So I’m not quite sure why Londonflashmobs had to cancel their plans to take part. I’d suggest that the confusion caused by this was probably the reason that only…
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Sue Your Customers – They’ll Love You For It
And so it came to pass. The BPI, is announcing today (free reg. reqd.) that it’s sueing “uploaders” of music. Now I still don’t really understand what they mean by “uploaders”. Do they mean “encoders” or “rippers” of the music? Because everyone who leaves a song in a shared directory surely becomes a lender as…
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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…
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