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Kinvig creator dies, aged 84
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Or as the Beeb put it Quatermass creator dies, aged 84. Overlooking Kinvig.
This was brought to my attention yesterday on videowatchdog.blogspot via ILX and I was just trying to come up with something appropriate to focus on for an FT article but I&#[…]

Poptimism – Lesson Eighteen
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I Know U Like Me – Mr Skillz And His Crazy Girls
Something Kinda Ooooh – Girls Aloud (Tony Lamezma Mix)
We Ride – Rihanna
Rehab – Amy Winehouse
Bump – Spank Rock (Best Fwends Remix) (more…)[…]

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Food Science Day 2: Gala Pie/Long Egg footnote
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While shopping this past weekend my eyes were drawn to this book called “Pie”. Ready for the xmo buying season, the publishers have spent their publicity cash getting it in those prime places in the bookshop, and the book strikingly LOOKS[…]

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ilovemusicvideo
Another way to watch youtube music videos. If you are a last.fm user, you can use your top artists/tracks/etc lists which is nice[…]

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Food Science Day 2: 5 – The Long Egg #2
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AIM: To replicate the legendary LONG EGG, of GALA PIE fame
APPARATUS: many eggs (as per), tall pan, foil, cylindrical “formers”, knife, wooden skewer
INITIAL COMMENTS: the basic principle here is bound to be v close to the realactual meth[…]

After (This) Life
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When Afterlife turned up on ITV’s schedule recently, I was a bit baffled to see it billed as the second series. It’s not that I go out of my way much for this sort of thing, but had I seen ONE trailer for it, I would have been interested.[…]

Poptimism – Lesson Seventeen with Grace Callaghan
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I Can’t Help Myself – The Gems
Soulful Dress – Sugar Pie Desanto
Love Hangover (Extended) – Diana Ross
I Wanna Be Your Lover – Prince
Ain’t 2 Proud 2 Beg – TLC (more…)[…]

Randomer and dumber
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Steven Levy on the iPod shuffle (Guardian article). Scientists have know for a long time that the folk perception of randomness and statistics is skew in many different dimensions of wrong, but it takes the bloody iPod to get this fact into mainstrea[…]

You Never Know Twice
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Every now and then the telly people over do the trails for upcoming shows that they are particularly keen for you to either watch, or remember that they put on. ITV are worst for this (I think) for the second reason – they want you to remember the […]

Poptimism – Lesson Sixteen – Tom Ewing’s Popular 60s
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1960: Apache – The Shadows
1961: Johnny Remember Me – John Leyton
1962: Telstar – The Tornadoes
1963: She Loves You – The Beatles
1964: It’s Over – Roy Orbison (more…)[…]

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