...how the future's supposed to look, some disappointment with how it all eventually turned out seems inevitable. (Note: Although this entry is primarily intended to shame 7th_tableau into making his Alphas post without slagging off the SyFy channel, it also serves to demonstrate why I despise the BBC for abandoning key tenets of its Charter in the name of ( Read more... )

...morph into an existential deliberation about an anthropomorphic cartoon goat's exercise routine in a single paragraph:

"We want to thank you for your feedback regarding spam. Please know that we're doing our best to come up with more powerful spam-fighting tools. You can help with the heavy lifting by reporting spam comments and reporting spam ( Read more... )

...which brings me to Peter Griffin's sexual encounter with a mermaid in Family Guy (S08E21), the best modern pop cultural reference to "ambiguous genitalia" I feel like splashing around here. Ho, ho. (U.S. audiences were deprived of some great lines in that surrogate pregnancy-themed episode, by the way, as it never aired over there. If you can ( Read more... )

Click to view

Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3y0CD2CoCs

Perhaps people will stop sending it to me, now. *Rolls eyes.* Normal content...or what passes for 'normal' content on here...will resume at midnight. Sadly, these research methods modules won't "finesse" ( Read more... )

...but Rubicon?

Yes. Definitely yes. The pilot was...and I rarely say this about a mere television programme...outstanding. (Some of the in-jokes and references will hold special appeal for anyone who's ever seen service with a think-tank ( Read more... )

25 years. Sheesh. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8567414.stmRead more... )

Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes receives its London premiere at the Empire Leicester Square tonight (http://www.premierehub.com/premieres/film.php?id=226). There's a London Tonight team in situ (http://www.itv.com/ ( Read more... )

Primarily for D - I think this may have been what happened to your desktop this afternoon - but of possible interest to others ( Read more... )

Don't go thinking that Guy Ritchie's forthcoming Sherlock Holmes film is Jude Law's first brush with the Great Detective, despite the actor's professed ignorance of the stories.

In 1991, he played the part of Joe Barnes in Granada Television's adaptation of "Shoscombe Old Place", during the Case-Book run of the series:


( Read more... )

...during a pan across the Upper House benches in the preamble to today's State Opening of Parliament, when David Trimble entered the shot:

"Oh look, it's Lord Cunt of Cuntshire."

Is Malcolm Tucker from The Thick of It on temporary loan to the Beeb's live events unit ( Read more... )