Talent In A Previous Life‘s review of the Glasgow Girls Aloud gig 2 weeks ago. The most exhaustive description of the show I’ve seen in a pop-blog, and though the actual performance I saw differed in only minor details (the ‘g-g-g-g[…]

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Slashdot poll Favorite fictional place?. I am disgraced as someone who works in IT and didn’t know about Elbonia. Current memes force me to propose CSI: Elbonia at least.[…]

(Yes this blog is officially the anti-infinity “maths? it’s rubbish” blog)
922 cats watching the cat before as of today. The site has been going for over a year (I think) and at this rate they show no sign of getting any closer to i[…]

BBC article. This is timed to hit the finale of 24 isn’t it? :-(
Ok, so Btefnet’s down, but isohunt is still going as a torrent search engine.[…]

OMD – Romance of the Telescope
With Kelly O currently ripping Visage’s Fade to Grey* in another fun/clumsy (ymmv) stab at the corpse of electro-pop, it was pure chance that I was reminded this week of another of my electro-pop heroes: Orc[…]

Not how he got away with the questionable zombie stunt (see below), but he does explain many other tricks on the Channel 4 micro-site. I’d like even MORE explanations – but it’s a good start. I think some of the highlights of the pa[…]

Rob Shearman, the writer of the FANtastic (YMMV) “Dalek” episode of Who gave an online interview to fans shortly after the show went out. He had this to say on the subject of writing speeches for Christopher E
“Well, it was a worry […]

I’ve openly admired most everything Derren Brown has done, with the exception of the silly Russian Roulette show. There was a so-so counting trick on tonight’s show with the episode’s “guest celeb” Jo Whiley which i coul[…]

Clay Shirky’s essay A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy is a couple of years old but I found it personally resonant right now.
“And, finally, you have to find a way to spare the group from scale. Scale alone kills conversations, because conver[…]