Cheers to ghacksdotnet for this one:

"The Internet Movie Database has finally added a new feature to their site that many have yearned for. As of now content has been added that can be streamed on site. The content in question is a mix of TV episodes and independent films. Everyone should however notice that most of the full movies and tv episodes are only ( Read more... )

...the BBC replaced the 404 Page Not Found message with an official Press Office release a couple of days later. The Merlin website is up and running properly now, of course: http://www.bbc.co.uk/merlin

So, for The 39 Steps, and leaping forward in time a little further to Christmas, I'll ( Read more... )

...to be sold by the BBC via an iTunes-baiting alternative service, not necessarily as exciting as it sounds?

Well, the clue's in those quotation marks around the word "live", but for those of you unfamiliar with how the BBC conned viewers of Top of the Pops for decades, here's Oasis performing miming to Roll With It on the show in the '90s:

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...about the ghost of H. P. Lovecraft haunting a couple of roommates in Brooklyn is uncannily close to my joke pitch for a low-budget horror movie about students sharing a house in Leeds being spooked by the ghost of Richard Whiteley a dead afternoon TV gameshow host ( Read more... )

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...if the staff of International Rescue are now moonlighting just to flog us stuff. Scott Tracy leaving Thunderbird 1 to chase the Hood on his jet-pack (all on behalf of Specsavers) was bad enough, but Brains? What do you think you're doing, Brains?

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Who is Anne Toth?

She's head of privacy (and VP of policy) at Yahoo, and has a neat line in justifying the company's "behavioral targeting" of advertising:

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2008/tc20080811_353762.htm


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Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnUvZP7-5LM

Still (un)dead.

(Cheers to robotopless.)

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Your (real life) decapitation of the day* is a sott_rss flashback ( Read more... )

Not being a Facebook slave user, I missed the "solution" to the Scrabulous farce:


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http://www.bbc.co.uk/merlin

(Try that one again in September. It may appeal to Giles-from-Buffy fans in particular...ooh, it's active now! Sort of. O Ye of sod all faith. Tut.)

;o)

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Edit: More student praise for EverNote ( Read more... )