Wedding TV
Horse and Country
Sky Real Lives
Wine TV
Baby Channel
Luxe TV
Fashion TV
Bedroom tv
that's without venturing into the shopping, dating, and religion channels - which are just totally scary...
The Perils of Privatization
Gosh. Letting big companies run essential infrastructure and services for profit - is a recipe for disaster? Who knew. The privatisation of the water companies in the UK has been a fiasco here too.
The Perils of Privatization | The American Prospect
The Perils of Privatization | The American Prospect
The Book List
The person who made the book shelf for the official Doctor Who web site was very clever.
1. The French Revolution.
In the pilot episode 'An UnEarthly Child' history school teacher Barbara hands Susan (the Doctor's grand daughter) a book on 'The French revolution' – Susan proclaims 'it didn't happen that way'.
2. The Time Machine – H G Wells.
The author hung around with the 6th Doctor in 'Timelash'. And the (7th) Doctor was reading it at the beginning and again at the end of the Doctor Who movie as the 8th Doctor (McGann). You could say it book-ended the film -hah.
3. Monty Python's Big Red Book.
(Dunno how that got in there. I know John Cleese had a guest spot once - but other than that... Obviously it's a favourite of someone's.)
4. Everest in easy stages.
5. A journal of impossible things – by John Smith.
Well... Did Nurse Joan find a publisher for the Doctor's scribblings then? That would provide a few tidbits of information for his enemies wouldn't it?
6. 'Type 40 TT Capsule Complete Manual'
Romana's preferred reading - the TARDIS manual.
7. The Black Orchid.
8. Understanding Telebiogenesis
Nyssa was on about trying to find a book on it in Castrovalva. It might be just a posh, more scientific word for regeneration.
9. Brigit Jones's Diary.
(Is that the closest thing they could get to Harriet Jones's Diary since there was an act of parliament preventing her from having one? Is this some sort of a foreshadowing hinty-hint?)
1. The French Revolution.
In the pilot episode 'An UnEarthly Child' history school teacher Barbara hands Susan (the Doctor's grand daughter) a book on 'The French revolution' – Susan proclaims 'it didn't happen that way'.
2. The Time Machine – H G Wells.
The author hung around with the 6th Doctor in 'Timelash'. And the (7th) Doctor was reading it at the beginning and again at the end of the Doctor Who movie as the 8th Doctor (McGann). You could say it book-ended the film -hah.
3. Monty Python's Big Red Book.
(Dunno how that got in there. I know John Cleese had a guest spot once - but other than that... Obviously it's a favourite of someone's.)
4. Everest in easy stages.
5. A journal of impossible things – by John Smith.
Well... Did Nurse Joan find a publisher for the Doctor's scribblings then? That would provide a few tidbits of information for his enemies wouldn't it?
6. 'Type 40 TT Capsule Complete Manual'
Romana's preferred reading - the TARDIS manual.
7. The Black Orchid.
8. Understanding Telebiogenesis
Nyssa was on about trying to find a book on it in Castrovalva. It might be just a posh, more scientific word for regeneration.
9. Brigit Jones's Diary.
(Is that the closest thing they could get to Harriet Jones's Diary since there was an act of parliament preventing her from having one? Is this some sort of a foreshadowing hinty-hint?)
Homepage Secret-ness
Already people are up to speed on what some the books on the bookshelves refer to. No one's copped yet that 'the History of the Universe' (by Oolon Caluphid - and also mentioned in 'The Hitch hiker's guide to the Galaxy*) was being read by the Tom Baker's Doctor in 'Destiny of the Daleks'. A story that featured the search for a certain Dave Ross...
*A certain Douglas Adams worked on Doctor Who for a while dintcha know? Of course you did. That's why there are still little nods and references to him and Hitchhiker's throughout the new series.
TV.com Forums - Homepage Secret-ness (SPOILERS)
*A certain Douglas Adams worked on Doctor Who for a while dintcha know? Of course you did. That's why there are still little nods and references to him and Hitchhiker's throughout the new series.
TV.com Forums - Homepage Secret-ness (SPOILERS)
Cory Doctorow: Our dangerous statistical ignorance
(Of course what's not being mentioned here is that ALL Governments whether left or right learning inherently distrust the people they purport to represent. A few short decades ago politics was about ideologies - but all that idealism has gradually died away. What's left is their pretense that they can protect us from the boogie men out there... the bigger the pretended potential fears - the more they can get away with in taking away the hard-won freedoms previous generations fought for... oh and our privacy too.)
Cory Doctorow: Our dangerous statistical ignorance | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Cory Doctorow: Our dangerous statistical ignorance | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Moffat Replaces RTD!
omg.
This pretty much means that if anything - Doctor Who is only going to get even better!
Moffat Replaces RTD! - News - Doctor Who - Online Magazine & Fan Site
This pretty much means that if anything - Doctor Who is only going to get even better!
Moffat Replaces RTD! - News - Doctor Who - Online Magazine & Fan Site
The Wrong Man
Nobody gets that Elections aren't ever won anymore. You need things like getting people to rally behind an ideology, a cause, something to do that. Now it's just that the current Government loses. And Gordon Brown - well sorry, but he looks like one big loser.
k-punk: The Wrong Man
(Great little piece right until the last two paragraphs - where the last one falls apart into incoherent gibberish. Media studies hey. Gotta tack on a reference to Baudrillard (or some such) -or they're just not doing their job.
k-punk: The Wrong Man
(Great little piece right until the last two paragraphs - where the last one falls apart into incoherent gibberish. Media studies hey. Gotta tack on a reference to Baudrillard (or some such) -or they're just not doing their job.
What's a 'Trapper Keeper'?
I'm re-watching that old Southpark episode...
Trapper Keeper: Mead's Answer to the Swiss Army Knife.
wikipedia entry.
Official site.
We don't have them in the UK - of course now, it being stationery - I think I want one.
Trapper Keeper: Mead's Answer to the Swiss Army Knife.
wikipedia entry.
Official site.
We don't have them in the UK - of course now, it being stationery - I think I want one.
Nouveau poor
One of the most annoying aspects of the 'credit crunch' is the sheer volume of middle class journos now 'playing at being poor'
Here's one example:
Jay Rayner finds some hits and misses in his Aldi shopping bag | Business | The Guardian
In the article notice how he's not economising by eating baked beans on toast or ramen noodles... funny that.
I'm going to start a list... Nouveau Poor watch.
Here's one example:
Jay Rayner finds some hits and misses in his Aldi shopping bag | Business | The Guardian
In the article notice how he's not economising by eating baked beans on toast or ramen noodles... funny that.
I'm going to start a list... Nouveau Poor watch.
The Crash Course | Chris Martenson
Uh-oh. 'Merika is doomed.
Apparently the next 20 years are going to have to be totally unlike the past 20 years.
Yay!
Apparently the next 20 years are going to have to be totally unlike the past 20 years.
Yay!
what silly knits the BBC are
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