...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... )

...Truffle oil!

Well, that was the case nearly eleven years ago, apparently. Of all the amputated parts of deceased websites I've contributed to during my time on teh interwebs, the one I've thought about least, and - truth be told - barely even recall, happens to be the short-lived cookery column on Temple Gates. It's all come flooding back now ( Read more... )

Those of you with reasonably intact memories, and exceedingly dull lives, may recall my uncharacteristic enthusiasm regarding the scanning and uploading (in convenient PDF) of The Usborne Book of the Future*, a robot-riddled hardback volume of, ultimately, contemptible inaccuracy which brought me oodles of joy and happy expectation as a wide-eyed, ( Read more... )

Kicking off with Soylent Green tonight, and A Clockwork Orange and Woody Allen's Sleeper tomorrow, we're into the hardcore cult classics part of the schedule now. Full details here ( Read more... )

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

Director of The Railway Children, and also a more personal favourite film, The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972) based on Antonia Barber's brilliant 1969 novel for children, The Ghosts. Here he is acting (and singing) as Grandfather Potts in Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang, when he was only 42, and younger than the actor playing his son, Dick Van Dyke:

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Yes, it's Tony Starch:


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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:


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...The Next Big Thing:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/aint-life-fadtastic-the-a-to-z-of-fads-1809339.html

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