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What happens when a former star of the West Wing's sister decides to run for the Supreme Court of the State of Michigan? This.
comment posted at 1:52 PM on Sep-20-12

Doctor Who Online podcast interviews Ian Levine. In parallel with his career as a DJ and record producer who worked with Bananarama and the Pet Shop Boys, Levine was also a consultant on Doctor Who in the 80s and was instrumental in finding many missing episodes of the series. His latest projects include private reconstructions of unproduced or incomplete stories like Douglas Adams's Shada. The interview is three entertaining, if controversial hours [direct download link to episode one and to episode two].
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Commodore 64 turns 30: What do today's kids make of it? "By the time I'd managed to get the game to load, I'd lost half my audience."
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What do today's kids make of the Commodore 64? BBC News invited Commodore enthusiast Mat Allen to show schoolchildren his carefully preserved computer, at a primary school and secondary school in London.
comment posted at 1:33 PM on Aug-1-12

Breaking Out. This afternoon, in a lift in Manchester ... a BBC Research and Development experiment into new editorial formats.
comment posted at 6:18 AM on Jul-4-12

The teaser trailer for the twenty-third James Bond feature, Skyfall has arrived.
comment posted at 2:41 PM on May-29-12

The story of Ron Paul’s presidential candidacy as told by his supporters in Time Magazine's comments section. Extra-specially meta thanks to an update which posts comments from underneath the same post.
comment posted at 8:06 AM on May-17-12

Prince Charles turns BBC Scotland weatherman "Who the hell wrote this script?"
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Robot hair washer has twenty-four fingers [via].
comment posted at 2:20 PM on May-2-12

Werner Herzog on Chickens.
comment posted at 2:48 PM on Feb-17-12

The Doctor Who Timeline Infographic (Spoiler Alert!)
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Is Sherlock sexist? Steven Moffat's wanton women - as River Song would say, spoilers.
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King James Bible readings by top UK actors - free podcasts London's National Theatre recently staged a series of live readings to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible and the glorious language that book contains. The actors taking part included Lindsay Duncan (Genesis), Patricia Routledge (Psalms), Maureen Lipman (Isaiah), Mark Gatiss (Luke) and Simon Russell Beale (Revelation). There's 12 readings in all, each of about 80 minutes, and the National has three available as free podcasts already, with the rest to follow soon. As a bonus, it's also offering Melvyn Bragg's talk on how the King James version was constructed and the main sources it drew on. I saw Bragg delivering this talk at the Cheltenham Literary Festival earlier this year, and it's well worth hearing.
comment posted at 8:17 AM on Dec-11-11

David Attenborough sings What a Wonderful World (slyt)
comment posted at 3:49 PM on Dec-8-11

A never-aired fourteenth episode of Carl Sagan's groundbreaking PBS show Cosmos has been discovered, detailing the one of the strangest planets yet discovered. (SLYT)
comment posted at 2:36 PM on Dec-1-11

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].
comment posted at 1:42 PM on Nov-27-11

Here's me Arnold Schwarzenegger riding towards the screen... You asked, and now you've got it: dvd commentary on Total Recall - Arnold giving you his insight into everything that you can see happening on the screen in front of you. ("Ow. That hurt.")
comment posted at 6:38 AM on Nov-25-11

Released today: The cast and crew of Doctor Who (Tennant era) lip-dub to The Proclaimers song "I Wanna Be (500 miles)". You will never be sad again. Also released today: John Barrowman, Catherine Tate, and David Tennant thank Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner for a great run on Doctor Who....in song.
comment posted at 5:34 AM on Oct-31-11

She Was A Camera. Melissa Gira Grant writes about camgirl culture. (NSFW?)
comment posted at 2:49 AM on Nov-20-11

make yourself cry. listen to that song, the one you used to listen to when you lay between someone’s sticky arms.
comment posted at 2:27 AM on Oct-9-11

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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"Two years after first announcing it, Spotify is finally coming to the US. The service will be launched later today, at 8 in the morning EST. The company has signed a deal with the fourth and final music label just hours before launch and the service will be virtually identical to the European one, except for the pricing which, while keeping the numbers, is switching pounds for dollars. "
comment posted at 3:29 PM on Jul-15-11

Cinema chain posts audio of anonymous angry voicemail from customer who was kicked out for breaking one of their two golden rules. No talking. No using mobile phones. [via /film who also have an alternative embed of video]
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Rocky Star was a 1990s Australian TV show that had actors lip-syncing along with a 1950s Flash Gordon-esque radio play. Mostly forgotten by absolutely everyone, two of the twenty episodes have recently turned up on youtube.
comment posted at 11:08 AM on Jun-5-11

She was Sarah Jane Smith: intrepid reporter, beloved companion, and stalwart defender. She was in two different spin-offs. The BBC is confirming that Elisabeth Sladen of Doctor Who and environs, is dead at 63.
comment posted at 1:28 PM on Apr-19-11

Yahoo to shut down Del.icio.us, other sites. After a series of layoffs, Yahoo announced internally that a number of Yahoo products would be shut down, and others merged into existing features of the Yahoo main site.
comment posted at 5:13 AM on Dec-18-10

13 awesome and awful pilots for sci-fi series we never got to see.
comment posted at 2:07 PM on Dec-14-10

A new documentary entitled "The Vanishing of the Bees", narrated by actress Ellen Page, begins showing on November 29th, 2010.
comment posted at 6:46 AM on Nov-28-10

Cinema Code of Conduct as collated by Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode, as read out on the radio this afternoon.
comment posted at 2:19 PM on Nov-19-10

The nerdiest thing you will see today.
comment posted at 12:32 AM on Oct-29-10

Is the Trailer for 'The Shining' the Actual Film?
comment posted at 11:09 AM on Aug-24-10

The 25 Most Disturbing Films Ever. Starts at #25, but the full list with links can be found below the fold. Some pages NSFW.
comment posted at 2:29 PM on Aug-18-10

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]
comment posted at 11:32 AM on Jul-21-10

Cat-Scan.com is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their scanners, or why.
comment posted at 8:03 AM on Jul-15-10

From off the streets of Cleveland, Harvey Pekar pioneered autobiopgraphical comics in the 70s with his self-published American Splendor. His tales of working as a file clerk lead to greater fame, including appearances on David Letterman and a movie about his life. He worked with many different artists, including his personal friend Robert Crumb. Beyond that, he was an inspiration for so many others. Harvey Pekar passed away last night at the age of 70.
comment posted at 2:35 PM on Jul-12-10

Yesterday, the leaders of the three largest political parties in the UK engaged in a live televised election debate for the first time in history. Most commentators seem to agree that Nick Clegg, the leader of Britain's perennial third party the Liberal Democrats, made the best impression in yesterday's first of three weekly debates leading up to the general election on May 6. The progressive-leaning Guardian even goes so far as to claim that he is now prime ministerial material.

This being Metafilter you will undoubtedly ask, "how does Cory Doctorow figure into all of this?" Well, he agrees with Nick on the Digital Economy Act. Then again, Nick is agreed with quite a lot.
comment posted at 3:00 AM on Apr-17-10

A one-hour dramatic television series.
Action - Adventure - Science Fiction.
The first such concept with strong central leas characters plus other continuing regulars.

Gene Roddenberry's original pitchfor Star Trek (.pdf) - featuring Robert M. April, captain of the S.S. Yorktown. (via)
comment posted at 3:59 AM on Mar-14-10
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Vogue Italia relaunched their website last week (in Italian and English / pictures on the site may be NSFW,) with three new subsites catering to specific fashion industry demographics: Vogue Curvy (focusing on plus-sized models, actresses and celebrities,) Vogue Black (men and women of color,) and Vogue Talents (veteran and up-and-coming designers. "Talents" also encourages hopeful designers to submit their work for review.) "Curvy" and "Black" in particular have received some positive and negative attention and some wonder whether separating those two fashion categories is truly inclusive. Vogue responds.
comment posted at 10:48 AM on Mar-1-10

Craig Ferguson talks to Stephen Fry. In five parts, without an audience.
comment posted at 7:04 AM on Feb-27-10