semi-watching the endless marple on TV this weekend, i began to put together a theory of what film and television get wrong about christie (in line, anyway, with what i’ve got from the admittedly slightly skewed selection i’ve read so far[…]

I promised the results would be up on Saturday, and here they are. Detailed scores, instant reviews, correlations and clusters, and implications all to follow.
This is from 39 votes – 32 present at Poptimism yesterday, 7 “postal”. […]

i. “take the brain” was aggressively marketed in 1970, with ads which mainly (as i recall) featured kids yelling “TAKE THE BRAIN!!” in a “crazy” way, and the pieces being wackily wiggled at the camera. I wz a sucke[…]

I’m sure you’re all looking forward to Poptimism today. But if by some mischance you can’t make it, and want to take part in the Instant Focus Group, just email leagueofpop@gmail.com saying so.
(The catch? You’ll only have til[…]

The human being isn’t very good at comprehending quantity (its why there are people with special jobs to survey them). That‘s not just the drunk stating he’s had twenty pints instead of four, or even the same drunk estimating the number of inch[…]

This site was down yesterday because it got ‘dugg’. And for why? “Since I’ve submitted it to the b3ta weekly newsletter, it’s spiralled out of control! 280,000 hits a day on this thing”.
Well done them. Let’s[…]

Just in case you haven’t already seen, Alanis Morisette is not only still alive, but she’s covered the Black Eyed Peas’ My Humps!! Her little jagg’d pills perhaps?? Aiee!
FOR FCKS SAKE WORDPRESS STOP EATING MY LINKS[…]

The Crunch – The Rah Band
I Wanna Have Your Babies – Natasha Bedingfield
Balance Gal – Lord Kossity
Release – Timbaland ft Justin Timberlake
Jimmy Mack’s Sweet Escape – pheugoo.com bootleg
Umbrella – Rihanna […]

” Popworld is a TV show. Popworld is a radio show. Popworld is a magazine. But who knew Popworld was also a theme bar? Actually, Popworld the bar in Liverpool (my only experience of its existence) used to be a Flares, and seems to have taken o[…]

Japanese Deep Fryer Has Aquarium Within says the headline. Unfortunately it’s just a demo of a fat fryer that uses a watery base to filter out food from the fat. Smashing way to demo it!
Now do you believe me?[…]