links for 2009-06-08

• Spring and Fall Goes Freelance
  My first webpage.
  
  
• Channel 4 to put back catalogue online for free
  Does that include Pob, Naked Yoga, Network 7 and Chips Comic?
  
  
• #feliciadayrumors
  Felicia rounds up her own Twitter hashtag. Yes, she *is* amazing.
  
  
• BrokenTV: Movie Pitch: Britain’s Got TERROR
  "Amanda Holden (Cheryl Cole) is lured to the opening of a new beauty salon (actually an abandoned warehouse). As Holden sits under a hair dryer, Lombard and Mariella stand around thinking of a suitably fitting demise for her. After twenty minutes they agree that she doesn’t really have any interesting or unique character traits, so they let her go."
  
  
• Interview: Daryl Hannah | Film | The Observer
  Haskell Wexler is her uncle!?!
  
  
• ticTOCs Journal Tables of Contents Service
  Search engine for academic journals that points directly to the RSS feeds.
  
  
• io9 - Could Doctor Who Be Splitting Series Five In Two?
  
  
  Bloody football.
  
  
• On the Creepy Alluring Art of the Follow Shot
  "Because the camera is so close to the character(s) being followed, we feel that we're physically attached to those characters, as if by an invisible guide wire, being towed through their world, sometimes keeping pace, other times losing them as they weave through hallways, down staircases or through smoke or fog."
  
  
• Newspapers in Britain - Online access to UK News and Information
  Handy (if retro) portal listing about 800 different news related media. Somehow, I'd forgotten about Ananova ...
  
  
• The British: Turning Votes Into Stones
  A lucid perspective on this weekend in UK politics from the Nigerian Guardian. We think we have problems: "In Nigeria, it does not matter how badly a leader performs. As long as he is in power, everyone kow-tows to him. People are re-elected to positions in Nigeria not because the people still want them but because they must complete an assigned ethnic quota. Nigerians are forever confronted by their leaders with election results which bear no reflection of reality. Nigerian leaders are rewarded with undeserved victories."
  
  
• BBC Radio 3 Live Playlist
  So that's what I was listening to...
  
  
• This ‘assassin’ is trying to reunite Labour
  She certainly is. In case you're wondering how far my tin-hatted conspiracy theory about Caroline Flint has come, this looks to me like the kind of article someone writes if they want the top job. She only needs seventy names. According to the Labour website there are 96 female Labour MPs (including herself). I wish they'd just get on with it frankly.