Vote Saxon
“Finally we can usher in a new age of prosperity, no more artificial politicians pretending to be someone they’re not!”[…]

They’re going to start offering higher quality (256 kbps AAC) downloads DRM-free. Yes you heard.
Single tracks 99p, albums STAY THE SAME. So you get high-quality DRM free albums for the same cost as today’s lower quality albums.
All very […]

TOTP debacle aside, the BBC knows full well you don’t need viewers to have a successful brand, especially if said brand is cheap as Mars Bars to make.
The BBC’s longest running programme celebrated its 50th birthday last night in typical […]

MOCK from the Virtual Glastonbury Booking Office. Host Tim, guests Katie, Magnus and Emma (and Mark). The FT periodic table, Radio Times Cool Poll, Mock Meat taste test, Blaze – The Arsonists, reinvention of transformers, what else should we reinvent, that song off the advert, Ghostwatch, Tanya and China Crisis, Baby Names inc Shiloh Pitt, also names in general, The Name of the Game – Abba, Take Back your Duck – The Inspirations or not.

as you can (sort of) see, the label sez:
“TESCO
Total Care
Freshmint flavour
INTERDENTAL
WOODSTICKS
100 double ended
with fluoride”
i. the freshmint and fluoride presumably mean you no longer need to brush yr teeth ever
ii. hence the phra[…]

The Glastonbury Festival has come under attack by an unlikely source this morning, just before the 1,400,000 tickets go on sale. The Bishop of Bath and Wells, whose diocese contains the Parish of Glastonbury has gone on an unprecedented attack at wha[…]

Elvis Costello – clever name, clever guy, right? Or wrong? Let’s look at his 1992 track, aptly named “How To Be Dumb”:
Don’t you know how to be dumb?
Are you ready to take your place
In the modern museum of mistakes?
OK,[…]

ok so now in my trek through a.christie decade by decade i have reached one i like unreservedly (=no.1 in the 1930s omnibus, The Sittaford Mystery, 1931, where she really finds a rhythm), so i am going to try and sum the 1920s AC for you
i. AC invent[…]

The furious Who Whype spinning around us throws up a gem from the Radio Times. RT asked their readers to vote for their Coolest People on Telly and guess who came top:

Doctor Who (David Tennant)

Jack Bauer in 24 (Kiefer Sutherland)

The Fonz in Hap[…]

What a bunch of saps we are. But then if you ask fifteen people who have been on a pub crawl for six hours what is the thing that underpins the universe, well a slurred Love is not the unexpected response. Anyway, someone jumped the gun, because as w[…]