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Goodbye Comedy Central UK
Or more particularly, Comedy Central Extra. But it comes to the same thing. I noticed a rather dispiriting Tweet earlier today from Hadley Freeman. As @ComedyCentralUK has INSANELY stopped showing The Daily Show, I'm RT-ing Jon Stewart's take on the UK election http://t.co/wyjqNa5Xaw — Hadley Freeman (@HadleyFreeman) May 12, 2015 That can’t be good. As…
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Vote Early, Vote Oft… Er… Well Vote Anyway
Polling stations are open until 10pm.
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Hot Battery
Note: This post is only likely to be of interest to some Sony Xperia Z3 users. I’m writing it as much as anything in case solutions should surface via Google. I’m having some fun and games at the moment with my Sony Xperia Z3 compact. It’s only a few months old, and I bought it…
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The Power of Newspapers… Or Lack Thereof
After the 1992 election when John Major defeated Neil Kinnock, The Sun published a now famous headline: “It’s The Sun Wot Won It.” I suspect that this is now a standard text that pupils examine in their GCSE Politics courses. Did The Sun really win it? Or were they just reading the runes and backing…
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Tour de Yorkshire 2015
I spent a couple of days of the Bank Holiday weekend up in Yorkshire watching the cycling. This was the first outing of the Tour de Yorkshire, and you can only see it improving – at least if Yorkshire is willing to go on funding it (they’ve signed a 10 year deal with ASO). A…
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Near Miss (Not Me)
Diamond Geezer published these thoughts on “Guerilla Pedestrians” yesterday. Let me relate what I saw happen – and what very nearly happened – this morning, because it scared me. I was walking across the Euston Road – crossing at the pedestrian crossing between St Pancras station and the Burger King just opposite. The crossing is…
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Paris – Roubaix 2015
When I visited Gent six weeks or so ago, it was to see the city and take in a little bit of cycling. Hence I got to watch Omloop Het Nieuswblad and Kuurne Brussels Kuurne. The former was a more interesting race and I duly found a nice bit of a cobbled ‘berg to view…
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“Now Available to Download”
There was mass hysteria* yesterday when Disney and Fox announced that all six Star Wars films would be available to download in HD from Friday! Goodness, how very lucky we are. I mean, how else was I going to be able to watch any of the films? It’s not as though they haven’t been released…
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Around the Web
They’ve been there a while now. At first, just a few. But now they’re everywhere. And the invasion is growing. What am I talking about? “Content Discovery Platforms” typified by those “Around the Web” discovery link panels you often see on news sites and advertising supported blogs. Essentially, these are the tables of links that…
Podcasts, Radio, TV, Books, Cycling, Photography and More
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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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