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Radio Times readers drink the Cool Aid
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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[…]

Poptimism – Lesson Thirty Three (and a third)
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Gotta Work – Amerie
Au Arbres Citoyens – Yannick Noah
Get Down – Groove Armada ft Lady Stush (Calvin Harris Remix)
Stop Me – Mark Ronson / Daniel Merriweather
Head Over Heels – Tears For Fears
Fergie vs The Fray – […]

The Twilight Princess is a hottie, the game itself not so much
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Anticipation for the Wii and its ‘killer’ game Zelda: Twilight Princess had ‘unreasonably raised expectations’ written all over it. What creative game developers will be able to do with the wiimote is still in the stage of pre[…]

Daily Show and Flavor Flav Explains DST ‘Aclockalypse Now’
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Maybe many brits aren’t aware, but thems ‘mericans start DST early from this year. At work, our New York office has only been four hours behind for the last few weeks. Finally this monday we get that all important fifth hour of peace befo[…]

Top 5 Science Books You May Not Have Read – #4 Julian Jaynes ‘The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind’
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Crazy title, crazy book. And for a while Jaynes was painted as a crackpot too — he had committed the sin of publishing his theory as this popular and accessible book instead of in the technical language of a peer-reviewed journal. The book rece[…]

Poptimism – Lesson Thirty Two – League of Pop Takeover
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PP3 Turn the Page – Blind Guardian
CC3 You Ain’t Ready – Yummy Bingham
CC2 More Than Friends (That’s Right) – 3LW
Sumthin’ Serious – Audio Club
PP1 Ladino Song – Oi Va Voi
CC1 Set Out Running – […]

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Top 5 Science Books You May Not Have Read – #5 Robert Axelrod’s ‘The Evolution of Cooperation’
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I trust you all watched the first of Adam Curtis’s new documentary on freedom last night (The Trap, repeated BBC4 surely, so look out for it.) It might have left you in a state of paralysis as he traced the impact that a strain of game theory h[…]

Poptimism – Lesson Thirty Something
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Who Likes Who – Jordan Pruitt
12 Bar Acid Blues – Siobhan Donaghy
Song 4 Mutya – Groove Armada
Sexy Twilight Back – Justin Timberlake v 2 Unlimited
Dancing With Tears In My Eyes – Novaspace (more…)[…]

Is this the Funniest Telly Moment Ever? Harry Hill and those penguins
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I’m still laughing at it months later. (From 3m 54s)[…]

4chan for beginners
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Don’t ever visit the 4chan site, it’s incomprehensible and full of filth (what better advert). But if you are feeling old from the incomprehensible tide of internets memes (which you can nearly always trace back to 4chan), you could get y[…]

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