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How accurate was Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" about the future?
"Part of the reason that Dr Floyd has been sent to Clavius Base is to deliver a morale-boosting speech to a crew bemused by what they have unearthed on the moon. [...] Frankly, there is no way that this would have been done in the real 2001 without the judicious use of PowerPoint featuring Excel charts and inspiring pictures of puppies, and probably some free branded goodies to take away and cheer everybody up."
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at 12:37 PM on September 28, 2009
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Sonic Adventures
An astonishingly thorough history of Sonic The Hedgehog taking in the games, animated series and more.
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at 1:48 PM on August 16, 2009
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Strange Games
"What do you get if you cross a large rubber ball used for physical therapy with the medieval sport of Jousting? Yoga Ball Jousting."
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at 1:40 AM on June 30, 2009
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A bad day in the news gallery? Talkback recording of everything going wrong during The One O'Clock News from the BBC in 1986:
Part One,
Part Two,
Part Three. Unless of course, this was a typical day ... "I haven't got any scripts Mike! How am I supposed to run a show?" "Animate quantel or whatever you want to do..." [
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at 8:53 AM on June 9, 2009
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London Underground blogger Annie Mole experiences the New York subway for the first time here ->
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at 8:52 AM on September 30, 2008
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BBC Sound Index
-- an excellent way to confirm your worst fears about the music Internet users are listening to.
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at 2:13 PM on April 18, 2008
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The Case for the First Folio
For centuries, editors of Shakespeare's plays have conflated different published editions (
quartos and folios) in an attempt to create one true text as the writer intended. In this essay (.pdf file) Jonathan Bate, one of the editors of
The RSC Shakespeare makes the case that in fact what they're doing is editing together different drafts of the play originated by the bard at different times in his life attempting to make better dramatic sense. Essentially that none of the texts you studied at school are what Shakespeare intended to be performed at all.
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at 4:42 PM on January 25, 2008
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The Manners Manifesto
For example: "(11)
Talk to people at the check-out. You don't have to say much. God, even something inane like, "Busy in here, today, isn't it?" or "Not as busy as usual in here, today, is it?" might put us on the road to peace in the Middle East. Carrying on grumping around and spreading those grump vibes certainly isn't going to help."
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at 3:21 PM on January 7, 2008
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Verity Lambert dies.
Verity was amongst other things the first producer of
Doctor Who and essentially co-created the series along with writer
Sydney Newman and the pilot director
Waris Hussein. She would later have a hand in bringing everything from
Minder to
Jonathan Creek to the screen.
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at 12:40 PM on November 23, 2007
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WW1: Experiences of an English Soldier
This blog is made up of transcripts of Harry Lamin's letters from the first World War. The letters will be posted exactly 90 years after they were written. "Dear Kate, Just a line to let you know I’m going on alright. We had an exciting time and this time up the line. We had only been in about six hours when fritz’s came over to us. We had an hour and a half of it but we beat them back and they lost a good many men too not many got back I can tell you. We lost #### (pencilled out –censored?) which I’m sorry to say and about #### wounded. I think the mug will be all right for Willie which Jack is getting for him. If you send me anything it will come in very nice the chocolate is very good I should like a bit of cake, if you could afford it really gets crushed so if it is not packed careful. With best love from Harry"
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at 3:42 PM on October 7, 2007
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What are you doing? Stop it! Stop it! Give me those pictures. You can't photograph people like that.
Who says I can't? I'm only doing my job. Some people are bullfighters, some people are politicians. I'm a photographer.
Michelangelo Antonioni, 1912 -
2007.
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at 6:10 AM on July 31, 2007
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Cinema Europe
Extraordinary documentary series from the 1990s narrated by Kenneth Branagh which quietly demonstrates that most of anything you thought you knew about early cinema is wrong (embedded Google Videos).
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at 8:47 AM on July 7, 2007
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The ten things most likely to be on The Daily Express front page.
This UK newspaper has gained something of a reputation of late because of their apparently monosyllabic attitude to the news and what'll appear as their front page story -- today with everything that's going in the middle east they ran with yet another story about Princess Diana. Here, Martin Belam analyzes the leaders for the past three months and examines the patterns.
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at 2:04 PM on April 4, 2007
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The 50 Worst Video Game Names Of All Time.
This is no joke, there are some real stinkers here which show that people who market games never, never realise that people might actually have to ask for them in shops. Some of these are actually unpronounceable. [
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at 1:51 PM on November 4, 2006
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Ask A Man?
"You have come to the right place for love, relationship and dating advice. Ask a man will provide you with the love, relationship and dating answers you seek. Our staff of amazing men have agreed to break the "man code" and tell you the absolute truth about what your man is really saying to you." For example: "Men want respect. In a man's world, men are nothing without respect. In a relationship, a man needs to know his woman respects him. "
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at 3:51 AM on October 20, 2006
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Shakespeare Apocrypha including such classics as 'The Birth of Merlin', 'The
Merry Devil of Edmonton' and 'The Life and Death of the Lord Cromwell'.
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at 2:58 PM on September 28, 2006
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One-Nil to Google against old media.
As Inside Google says, the search engine "responding to Belgian newspaper’s complaints about being included in Google News and the Google cache, as well as a court ruling that they remove those newspapers from their services, decided to show them who’s boss and banned the newspapers outright from Google Belgium’s search results." Or, news organisation misunderstands the benefits of new media and pays dearly.
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at 1:49 PM on September 21, 2006
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My Quonah.
"My name is David C and I am the biggest idiot on this planet! Every girl I've ever met has done nothing except want me for what I had to offer them, the amount of cash I could throw their way and not for the person I was. One day that all changed when I meet a lady called Quonah..." Should she call him?
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at 3:27 AM on September 3, 2006
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Meet The Bloggers.
New BBC Radio Four series begins this week which interviews prominant bloggers about their craft. First up
Anna of little.red.boat and
Annie of Going Underground. Full first programme and unedited interviews
here. I think this is the first time a major network has dedicated a whole series to the topic and treated it with such seriousness and intelligence -- I particularly like the moments in which the prose is sonically illustrated.
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at 2:49 PM on August 30, 2006
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