Great timing, excellent! Modem and router moved on to the great scrapyard in heaven at the same time, leaving us with something that, if it works at all, seems to be a 56kb modem. Emma sums my feelings up perfectly:


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The traditional October auction over at Charles Miller Ltd. is just around the corner. There’s always a wondrous plenthora of Maritime and Scientific objects and works of art on offer, but this year, one very special object caught my eye:

A PRIVATE AUTOGRAPH JOURNAL KEPT BY ADMIRAL LORD COLLINGWOOD (1750-1810) WHILST COMMANDING THE BRITISH FLEET IN ( Read more... )

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I recently got a hold of a prehistoric document of Damian's acting career - his appearance as Dean Larke in "Holby City", back in 2004.

GALLERY HERE


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I know that it's Saturday and therefore a bad day for posting, but please, do read this entry and follow the links inside; it's important for fans, whether they are in the LotR fandom or not.

"(...) LOTRFanFiction.com is a fan fiction archive, just like TwilightArchives.com (another site I snapped up a couple of months ago).

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Dear People On The Radio

I can't imagine that you never had any English lessons in your life, but just in case, here's some information which you might find helpful.

The following are not "romantic love songs", no matter how often you announce them as such:

Bobby Brown by Frank Zappa
"I got a cheerleader here wants to help with my paper
Let her do all ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning to the news that the U.S. House of Representatives has voted to bar Planned Parenthood health centers from all federal funding for birth control, cancer screenings, HIV testing, and other lifesaving care. A truly vile bit of misogyny. Why this obsession with people's reproductive rights? Why this obsession with making women's ( Read more... )

Author Diana Gabaldon doesn't like fanfiction.
Fair enough.
Unfortunately, she can't just leave it at "ew, gross, don't write about my characters" (a wish the overwhelming majority of fans would respect), but pulls a Rice instead.

OK, my position on fan-fic is pretty clear: I think it’s immoral, I _know_ it’s illegal, and it makes me want to barf ( Read more... )

Houston, we have a plagiarism-scandal. This time in Germany, and the culprit is a 17-year old called Helene Hegemann. Critics whipped out the thesaurus and showered her book "Axolotl Roadkill" with praise, rolling in superlatives like pigs in mud.  That's not unusual; critics love wunderkinder. I have no doubts that there are 17 year olds who write ( Read more... )

British actors are too ugly for foreign audiences, says British TV boss
The actors using in British dramas are too ugly for foreign audiences, according to an ITV executive, who said the gritty realism often found on domestic television doesn't work overseas.


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