8 month ago
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 : LISPA - School - Information - Film - LISPA has a new website and a promotional film. The pictures at the top are people from my year, the film features people from the year above. Very strange, and lovely, to see and hear all this stuff again.
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philgyford : BSA Actor Training - Part-time courses in London from somewhere I haven't heard of. (I keep meaning to collate such places in a post. One day.)
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26 month ago
Rod Begbie : BBC - Press Office - Ashes To Ashes - Ashes to Ashes (the 80's Life on Mars follow-up) is starting the first week of February, and everything about it sounds bloody AMAZING. "What's been your favourite scene to film?" "That would have to be when we were on a speed boat going under Tower Bri [via] #
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26 month ago
deusx : A scrapbook career in shreds - Los Angeles Times - "Kristina Contes recently won a national scrapbooking contest but her title got taken away because of a scandal regarding the use of photographs she had not taken herself."
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27 month ago
deusx : John Resig - I Learned Some Things About jQuery Today - "Maybe you should take some time to sit down and actually try to use and work with other libraries, because while you were out bashing and slandering us we were writing rock solid code, sharing, collaborating, and discussing the future of the web.&qu
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27 month ago
deusx : MooTools An open apology to the authors of jQuery, Prototype and others - "Olmo is no longer a part of the Mootools development team."
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34 month ago
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: Goatse II: The Widening - "this networking facility allows people to go from 0-60,000 displays of a stretched rectum in just a couple days, where that same period of time can lead to hundreds of people "discussing" what is essentially a prank, and the bell-curve of
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38 month ago
gleuschk : Medical Reviews of House MD - average grade seems to be a C
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42 month ago
Rod Begbie : BBC - Press Office - This Life returns - The BBC's filming a 10-year anniversary episode of the superb soapdrama "This Life". Hope they don't screw it up, because This Life was one of my favouritist dramas ever. #
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42 month ago
gleuschk : PR Newswire - Leading Math Scholars Decry Fictions Surrounding Fields Medal, Letter Says - Dr. Yau has demanded that The New Yorker and Nasar make a prominent correction ... and apologize for an insulting illustration that accompanied it. See also http://www.kottke.org/06/09/poincare-conjecture-battle-continues
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43 month ago
Rod Begbie : BBC - Press Office - An all-star cast to appear in BBC ONE's Jekyll - Bugger me backwards, this sounds good. A modernised retelling of Jekyll and Hyde, written by Steven Moffat of Press Gang, Coupling, and Three of the best new episodes of Doctor Who fame. Hooray for the BBC! #
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plasticbag : "Most of the cast of the upcoming SF movie Serenity told SCI FI Wire that they have signed on for two more movies if the film version of Joss Whedon's canceled Fox TV series Firefly is a hit" - Can I please, please, please remind people to go and see Serenity when it comes out. I really really want a bloody sequel here. The film deserves one...
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50 month ago
kayodeok : The Fembot: An Open Love Letter to Joss Whedon - Buffy, Spike, Angel, Cordelia, Willow, Jayne, Mal, Kaylee, Illyria, Gil... the list is unending. Thank you also for the creation of Willow, Tara, Cordelia, Joyce, Anya, Faith, Fred, Drusilla, Darla, Glory, Harmony, Lilah, and yes, even Dawn. Thank you for
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50 month ago
plasticbag : The West Wing has been axed - the last episode will air on May 14th 2006 - I can't believe this - admittedly it went through a bit of a dull patch a couple of years ago, but it's been uniformly good ever since, and the whole Santos campaign has been astonishingly good stuff! What the fuck!?
kayodeok : Political drama West Wing is axed - White House drama The West Wing will end its seven-year run on US TV network NBC in May
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52 month ago
kayodeok : John Spencer, the actor who plays Leo McGarry on The West Wing, has died, at 58 - John Spencer, the actor who played vice-presidential candidate Leo McGarry in NBC television's The West Wing, has died of a heart attack at 58
plasticbag : John Spencer, who played The West Wing's Leo McGarry, has died aged of 58 - God, what terrible news. I'm astonished that he was only 58 - he looked ten years old at least. HIt turns out that he was younger than my stepfather.
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54 month ago
plasticbag : "Most of the cast of the upcoming SF movie Serenity told SCI FI Wire that they have signed on for two more movies if the film version of Joss Whedon's canceled Fox TV series Firefly is a hit" - Can I please, please, please remind people to go and see Serenity when it comes out. I really really want a bloody sequel here. The film deserves one...
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55 month ago
plasticbag : The Constant Gardener is getting pretty exciting reviews - collected here on Metacritic... - "Director Fernando Meirelles and screenwriter Jeffrey Caine put a human face on John le Carre's novel of sex, lies and dirty politics in modern Africa. Prepare for a thrilling ride. "
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63 month ago
plasticbag : The various costumes shown in the credits for the new series of Alias - The new series of Alias started a few days ago in the States and once again they decide to change the premise and do a bit of a reboot... This time, however, I'm not quite as impressed as previously...
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63 month ago
plasticbag : CNN commentary on the new series of 'Alias' - Alias never did terribly well in the UK - they're now showing series three on 'five' around 1am in the mornings on Monday or Tuesday nights. Which is a shame cos it rocks...
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64 month ago
philgyford : National Council for Drama Training
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plasticbag : Current TV series of choice: Lost - Lots of people stranded on a weird island with polar bears and potentially weird psychic properties, plus high drama and personality clashes. Fascinating.
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