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Around the World in Eighty Days
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A Question of Blood
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Good Bye Lenin
It’s apparently very important that this film is Good Bye Lenin, and not Goodbye Lenin. I can’t say why really – not because I’d give the plot away, but I simply don’t know. It’s set in the months either side of the Berlin wall coming down, and a wonderfully communist mother who goes into a…
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The Day After Tomorrow
The science in this is dubious in the extreme, but you go to see a film like this for the special effects and the ride. I admit that I quite enjoyed it, and the effects are well done. I’ll ignore the blatant plugs for fellow Fox channels Fox News and Sky, the painful references to…
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Ipod Killer
So the iPod is, what, over two and a half years old now? My big question is why no-one has quite launched the iPod killer. Yes I know that the iRiver is pretty damn good and about a hundred quid cheaper than the equivalent iPod, but why aren’t there cheap Taiwanese or Chinese versions around…
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The Championship
I mean – really! So the old Fourth Division now becomes the Coca Cola League Two. What a load of nonsense. So you’ve got a new sponsor and a new logo – leave it at that. I think I may have to go back to calling everything Divisions 1 to 4.
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Roger Graef in Broadcast
Acclaimed film-maker Roger Graef has written an excellent essay for today’s Broadcast (subscription only). A few extracts: Now celebrating its 50th year, [ITV] has been a source of important landmark programmes in ways too often from unacknowledged in teh PSB debate. Pressure from advertisers and shareholders led to the shameful reduction of its current affairs…
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ID Card Secrecy “Slammed”
This sounds very encouraging. Looking forward to seeing the verbatims from the latest session.
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Sky Offers Free Package
Well this was only a matter of time, and I guess it was mainly a question as to how many subscriptions Sky see themselves losing, and how much they wanted to subsidise the box for. At £150 they’ve pitched it pretty well, although I’m unsure whether that includes the installation. (UPDATE – this price includes…
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Lost My Faith
Well, more like, I’ve lost my faith in Faithless. I really like the current single, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the new album was out on Monday. BUT… it’s got “Copy Control” on it, so it’s not a real CD. I won’t be able to easily copy it across to my minidisc. The disc will…
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Oil
Oil prices are rising again, and over the weekend I read a couple of good pieces about where we’re going with oil. First there was this piece in The Observer (the online version of which is sadly lacking the longterm oil prices graph). It actually accompanied another fascinating article about Shell’s recent travails. Then I…
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Colossus Rebuilt
Good to see that Bletchley Park have finished rebuilding the Colussus Mk2. Must revisit Bletchley soon…
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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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