End this face-changing madness! I cry over at Proven By Science. There is no question that CGI techniques have totally changed how documentaries are presented, though. I saw Panorama for the first time in ages on Sunday night, a documentary in which […]

Y’now when capt oates that gallant english gentleman said “i am just going out i may be some time” well i have discovered by careful pseudo-straussian perusal of the evidence that it wz not FROSTBITE or SCURVY which impelled him int[…]

Imagine my horror when I clicked on the BBC Website to find a picture of Alan Titchmarsh devolved by computer graphics magic into a Neanderthal. This wizardry was to illustrate his “Natural History Of Britain” series, latest in the long l[…]

It’s That Time Again…
Five reasons to come to October’s Freaky Trigger club night on Thursday 28th.
1. As usual it’s going to be a lot of fun.
2. Guest DJs! This month we have MIGHTY MARTIN SKIDMORE bringing the soul power and[…]

Do You See Derrida?
There is little to add to the excellent eulogy to Derrida over on the Brown Wedge here, except to note what a chump Ivan Massow is. Yesterdays G2 had a “What does Derrida mean to you article” to the not that great and […]

Life in the Resident Evil games is mediated through two screens. The obvious one is the inventory, which lets you pick between carryng around plot items (key cards etc), health stuff to keep you alive, and shiny weapons. The other, no less important,[…]

SUPERMAN IS DEAD
So said the cover of the Evening Standard yesterday. Ho hum, I said. Its not anything we haven’t seen before. He’ll be back in a couple of months.[…]

Guilty Pleasures (Theory And Practice)
I’ve just been sent a review copy of a new compilation of DFA stuff and very fine it is too. But how’s about this for a quote from the press release, attributed to James Murphy:
“We’d bot[…]

ROLF does REMBRANDT
I’ve always approved of how-it’s-done programmes (cookery, gardening, that funny little ten-minute “tips for” series), even for disciplines i’m not much interested in —> and there’s plain[…]

FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARIEST THINGS
19. Death
The first death I can remember was also perhaps the purest. A kid at school was running on the athletics track and collapsed. In the second or two it took a teacher to reach him he had died. A brain hae[…]