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A serial intern in the finance sector speaks: "Applying for internships is so tiresome and bruising. It's like dating, you sit by the phone waiting for a call. Back in my days at university I would get up at 5.30am or 6am. First I'd go jogging, then send out an application for an internship. Every morning. It's so painful to hear 'no' all the time."
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at 5:21 AM on January 27, 2012
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10 Myths About Introverts: "Myth #2 – Introverts are shy: Shyness has nothing to do with being an Introvert. Introverts are not necessarily afraid of people. What they need is a reason to interact. They don’t interact for the sake of interacting. If you want to talk to an Introvert, just start talking. Don’t worry about being polite." [
via a comment at this similarly accurate post from Diamond Geezer].
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at 4:59 AM on November 27, 2011
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Taking the Boris Bikes to Paris. One of London mayor Boris Johnson's initiatives has been
the installation of a bike hire service across the capital controversially sponsored by a well known bank. Stretching the hire terms and conditions to their limit, local bloggers
Ian and
Tom decide to take them across the channel briefly to meet their continental cousins at
the Parisian Vélib.
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at 1:31 PM on August 21, 2011
(41 comments)
Cinema Code of Conduct as collated by
Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode, as read out
on the radio this afternoon.
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at 10:01 AM on November 19, 2010
(37 comments)
I'm proud of the BBC. A song.
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at 3:23 PM on October 16, 2010
(55 comments)
The British Board of Film Classification has updated its website, and as part of the remodel made the Extended Classification Information more visible. And oh the wisdom as the classifiers must justify their actions ... [
via]
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at 11:19 AM on July 21, 2010
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YouTube Closes Down For The Night [
via,
via]
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at 6:27 AM on March 8, 2010
(33 comments)
This Is a Test Product and Nothing Will Be Sent to You. Also available new and used
but with the dust-cover missing from
Mythic Pictograms who presumably think that it's a "no prize" [
via].
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at 3:47 PM on February 8, 2010
(15 comments)
The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft -- a new old time radio production [
part one,
part two]
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at 3:11 PM on November 17, 2009
(37 comments)
Belle de Jour reveals herself. She's Dr Brooke Magnanti.
She's real and once wrote
this column about autopsies.
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at 4:51 PM on November 14, 2009
(74 comments)
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
(62 comments)
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
(25 comments)
Six-year-old artist. Extraordinary understanding of perspective and shading.
Side by side comparisons.
Local coverage.
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at 1:46 AM on August 2, 2009
(105 comments)
Adam Curtis's It Felt Like A Kiss. The whole of the experimental film (from the author of
The Power of Nightmares and
The Trap) which accompanied
his recent show at the Manchester Festival. "When a nation is powerful it tells confident stories about the future."
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at 10:57 AM on July 24, 2009
(23 comments)
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
(18 comments)
The British Film Institute on YouTube. How we used to live and more [
via].
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at 3:51 AM on June 21, 2009
(7 comments)
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..." [
via]
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at 8:53 AM on June 9, 2009
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Last night, BBC Radio 3 broadcast a semi-staged production of Shakespere's A Midsummer Night's Dream with Mendelsohn's incidental music.
Now they've put a video of the performance up on their website.
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at 2:42 PM on May 11, 2009
(17 comments)
On jetlag, and how to beat it. Reconfiguring your body clock. There and back again.
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at 2:16 PM on March 30, 2009
(17 comments)
TV Offal's songs and the US radio jingles which inspired them. "It's nice in Detroit." "It's nice being Esther." TV critic
Victor Lewis-Smith's
late night comedy show was short lived but well remembered by those of us who saw it on Channel 4in the UK (cf,
Google Video and
YouTube).
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at 2:49 AM on November 15, 2008
(6 comments)
What Are You Doing Here?
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at 9:44 AM on October 4, 2008
(33 comments)
London Underground blogger Annie Mole experiences the New York subway for the first time here ->
1,
2,
3,
4,
5 and
6.
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at 8:52 AM on September 30, 2008
(35 comments)
The Waldo Ultimatum
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at 9:35 AM on September 23, 2008
(37 comments)
A lifetime of lost playlists Martin Belam offers a personal history of music formats and describing how he made playlists with each of them. I'd love for
his conclusion to become a reality.
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at 8:17 AM on July 31, 2008
(13 comments)
Charles Darwin's blog "Well there I was minding my own business in the Cafe of the Natural History Museum…"
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at 2:18 PM on April 29, 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
(27 comments)
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
(29 comments)
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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Are we recording all this, Nick? I hope we are. Right here we go... In 2005, the BBC's royal correspondent
Nicholas Witchell was preparing a "two-way" regarding that year's
VJ Day 60th anniversary commemorations. He and the interviewer
Richard Evans just couldn't see eye to eye as to how the story should be covered. Luckily for us, their tetchy conversation and the fall out with the producers was recorded (
transcript/
mp3). Despite the vintage, it's a rather revealing behind the scenes record demonstrating the process that's often gone through to decide how news is best communicated to we listeners.
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at 3:13 PM on January 6, 2008
(19 comments)
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
(26 comments)
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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Darren Aronofsky has posted a bootleg commentary for his film The Fountain (the one with Hugh Jackman in a bubble with a tree flying through space) since the film company decided the actual dvd itself didn't need one.
The direct mp3 download is here (16mg) [
via].
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at 4:30 PM on September 17, 2007
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Learn To Draw Animals.
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at 3:47 PM on August 18, 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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The Doctor Who Fan's Phrasebook is like looking down a long dark corridor and seeing yourself. Surprisingly flexible too. "The Silent Majority -- A collection of people who don’t exist. I’ve just made them up so that I can claim to speak for them." Note: Big spoilers for the third new series, which has just begun on Sci-Fi in the US, and possibly
Torchwood.
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at 10:15 AM on July 8, 2007
(36 comments)
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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In a speech for the Royal Television Society, ITV chairman Michael Grade questions how much the home audience is aware of fakery and whether they should have to be. It's a fascinating piece which includes examples of when television programmes haven't been, shall we say, completely honest with the viewer -- why am I so surprised about the prizes on
Blind Date possibly being rigged? Grade suggests there should be zero tolerance in relation to these things, but isn't it just a case of us accepting that fact-based entertainment television always requires an element of fiction for it to be watchable?
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at 9:12 AM on July 3, 2007
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The BBC have published online new guidelines for programme makers as to how the end credits to television shows should be formatted in future. The instructions are geekily idiosyncratic and the diagrams offer a preview of at least BBC One's on-screen graphics in the future. Spy drama
Spooks famously dumped its credits online. Are we now seeing the first stage of a process in which the same will happen for all programmes? Does it matter?
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at 3:45 PM on May 9, 2007
(29 comments)
Frozen Indigo Angel Video producer
Paul Denchfield recently noticed the words '
Frozen Indigo Angel' appearing on some work he'd produced for the
BBC's Radio One website. Wanting to know what it was about, he contacted the corporation but they were evasive about it and not long afterwards he was told his services were no longer required. Not wanting to take it lying down, he's started blogging about the phenomena, which is virally spreading across the BBC's digital content,
even popping up in the information window of DAB radios, trying to get to the bottom of this thing which has apparently cost him his job. Simple marketing or something more sinister?
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at 3:26 PM on April 26, 2007
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A
free audio podcast of The Globe Theatre’s 2007 version of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing has been posted online by the UK's Department for Education for use by teachers and pupils without easy access to a professional production but can be downloaded by everyone. Streaming and mp3 versions available. [
via]
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at 8:56 AM on April 24, 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
(31 comments)
Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell's blog
Observations on film art and Film Art is never less than engaging. These are the writers I turned to during the writing of my dissertation through their many books, particularly
Film Art and it's exactly that kind of academic yet accessible style that can be found here, in their discussions of the vagueries of
shot length and
scene blocking methods as well as comment on
other recent film related subjects.
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at 10:07 AM on February 9, 2007
(10 comments)
Remember this? British people of a certain age will know about sitting in a school hall or classroom watching this clock waiting for 'Middle English' or 'How We Used To Live' to begin. This website recreates old
tv clocks and
idents in flash and it's like watching decades of anticipation pass you by -- and very cleverly, they
tell the correct time. Many are
available as screensavers.
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at 10:15 AM on February 1, 2007
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