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philgyford : Information is beautiful: The BBC-O-Gram | News | guardian.co.uk - Useful to get an overview of where the BBC's money gets spent. Cutting 6Music and Asian Network doesn't save much compared to the total.
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Rod Begbie : BBC News - Reporter breaks an 'unbreakable' mobile phone at CES - Wonderful wonderful wonderful. [via] #
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Rod Begbie : BBC Radio 4 - The Infinite Monkey Cage - Oh, BBC Radio, I could kiss you sometimes. A thirty minute show about science and comedy from Robin Ince and Brian Cox? With Dara O'Briain as a guest? And available as a podcast? YES PLEASE! [via] #
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philgyford : Channelography - "Creates statistics about BBC Programmes by reading and analysing the captions." Like the start of a way to search the "text" of programmes.
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Rod Begbie : New Dr Who Logo - Love love LOVE! the new Doctor Who logo. As timeless as is appropriate for a show about time travel. [via] #
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philgyford : Fader | iPlayer Grabber, the iPlayer downloader for Mac OS X - iPlayer has ceased to function on my G4 PowerBook - it gets about one frame per second. But iPlayer Grabber lets me watch things on it. Hurrah!
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philgyford : Chris Heathcote: anti-mega: Saving Britain's Past - This really is a good programme, with a nice balance of old and modern. And no struggling to make stories over-dramatic, like too many documentaries these days.
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Rod Begbie : John Cage - 4'33" - Performance of John Cage's "4' 33"" by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. #
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philgyford : BBC - BBC Internet Blog: A Christmas Present from the HD Channel! - A way to calibrate your HD TV, but mostly for the links to Flickr pictures of HD-sized versions of the traditional BBC test card with girl and clown.
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Simon Willison : John Resig on Glow - John Resig on Glow. John criticises Glow for reinventing the wheel—BBC insiders respond in the comments below.
philgyford : Hacker News | The BBC's Glow effort has always confused me. They were using jQuery on the main... - John Resig, the chap behind jQuery, wondering (like many people I imagine) why the BBC wrote its own bespoke JavaScript framework. (via Haddock)
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philgyford : Notes.husk.org. The show, which is currently in production with an.... - BBC4 "comedy drama" about the rivalry between Sir Clive Sinclair and Acorn Computers head Chris Curry. Why a sodding *comedy* drama? Let's laugh at the funny 1980s and their silly computers! Well, might be good.
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Rod Begbie : Battle between ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro to be BBC4 comedy drama - The story of Sir Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry is being turned into a one-off BBC comedy-drama. To British nerds of a certain age, this is the most exciting news ever. #
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philgyford : Pulse Laser: Shownar - This is what I've been working on, off and on, for the past while, with the lovely folks at Schulze & Webb. Is good.
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wearehugh : BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Giving up my iPod for a Walkman - "It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape."
deusx : BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Giving up my iPod for a Walkman - "It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but later I discovered that it was in fact
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philgyford : Welcome To The North » A whole lot of nothing - A transcript of an interview with Doncaster's new mayor, whose election manifesto might as well have been written by people who post the BBC's Have Your Say comments. (via Haddock)
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Rod Begbie : BBC - Changes to international pages - Genuinely bothersome news from Auntie Beeb. They've decided to stop letting people outside the US switch to viewing the News site from a UK focus. That was the whole reason why BBC News has been on my browser toolbar since 1998! Hoping this will be rev #
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philgyford : BBC News | Entertainment | BBC Two to show US TV's The Wire - Showing every night!? Sheeeeeeeeeeeeit, why does BBC2 screw up every single decent US show it gets its dumb hands on?
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nelson : Underwater armageddon - New BBC HD nature documentary showing an underwater hunt
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jonhicks : Play BBC Radio in iTunes - Very clever stuff!
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Rod Begbie : BBC NEWS | Magazine | A bit of vibraphone nostalgia - In tribute to Tony Hart, the BBC News magazine profiles the music for "The Gallery". An iconic ditty for any member of my generation. #
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philgyford : 'I will e-mail the BBC to object to "Thought for the Day"' - PledgeBank - I'd have signed up if I'd heard about it in time.
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jonhicks : (UK Only) iPlayer under boxee - boxee :: forum
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Richard Rutter : BBC on WCAG 2.0 - “New guidelines boost web access” .
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Rod Begbie : On The Hour - The iconic BBC radio series (which gave way to The Day Today) finally gets a full CD release (including bonus material, such as Chris Morris's fantastic flexidisc for Select Magazine). Subscribe to the podcast for snippets of genius. [via] #
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