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Monday, March 10th, 2008TV Show The Bill (that one about the coppers that used to be good years ago, but which went pants when it became just another soap opera) got into hot water last week. They featured a story about a MS sufferer and in the course of the programme mentioned a drug called Plavitron.
Apparently, they’ve now [...]
Beadle’s NOT About
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008The BBC are reporting the news that Jeremy Beadle, well-known TV prankster and game-show host, has died after a long period of ill-health.
I wanted to make a joke about it along the lines of how it’s all a con - just another Beadle prank to make someone look silly, but I couldn’t find the right [...]
57 channels and nothing on
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008My friend Skimmer has a blog entry about the current drive in the UK to get people switched over from analogue to digital television equipment, ready for when the analogue signal is switched off for good in 2012. He makes a good point that the UK public are being pressured into updating their equipment when [...]
Brief notes
Saturday, December 15th, 2007Another quick round up of bits and pieces that don’t warrant a whole post on their own:
1. The advice to always read the small print is something that Piotr Staniaszek should have heeded. He’s just been hit with a mobile phone bill for $85,000 after thinking that his $10 a month plan would cover him [...]
"And your boyfriend’s name is Evel, and he lives up in the sky”
Saturday, December 1st, 2007Growing up in the 70’s, I was spoilt for choice when it came to heroes. But the one that stood head and shoulders above all the rest for me was the man in the star-spangled jumpsuit who liked to jump his motorbike over things.
I think the appeal of Evel Knievel was he would attempt these [...]