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That Bucket of Shit Has Got To Be There For A Reason
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— 22 Feb 2007 Pete Baran 6 comments

An annoying trend of current film and television is the set-up. By being aware of the set-up you can nearly always work out who the murderer and the method is in CSI (or at least one of these). The cast iron rule of the set-up is, anything which is g[…]

The All New SI Units Of Measurement
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— 22 Feb 2007 Pete Baran 36 comments

Its good to see that in the great GIANT SQUID story the BBC no longer trust the standard units of measurement, be they imperial or metric. Instead, as any good news story will have it, the all new SI Units* are being used. In this case the squid is b[…]

Brandwatch: Civil War, 52, Countdown, and the future of “shared universe” comics
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— 22 Feb 2007 Tom 9 comments

Unusually for a big event, there is actually an awful lot to say about Marvel’s Civil War series, the last issue of which hits UK shops today. I’m not going to say an awful lot in this post: basically, as a comic it was kind of rub, as a […]

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