miniblog archive

Ultra Culture on why the iPad can fuck right off. It's bad for movies. It looks like another piece of technology which is going pass me by. http://ff.im/-eYyWJ

Benny's Buried Treasures. Free Doctor Who spin-off audio drama. http://ff.im/-eXnlW

University area welcomes Hope Square. Extending the pavement outside of the Metropolitan Cathedral and removing everything but public cars from the area. http://bit.ly/9Z97V9 about 9 hours ago

It’s swing time again! http://ff.im/-eXaLU

Tim Burton? Pan's Labyrinth? Oooh. Ben Cook from Doctor Who Magazine uploads part of the audio from his interview with Matt Smith and Karen Gillan and drops some hints as to how the tone of the series is changing under Steven Moffat. Sounds like the nu-Who equivalent of the Hinchcliffe years. Also worth listening to for the chance to hear Matt and Kate interacting for the first time. It's like a scene from The Big Bang Theory. http://bit.ly/csLNaX

Hadley Freeman on The amazing truth about Zoolander | http://ff.im/-eVBOD

The Sorry History of US Right-Wing Scoops http://ff.im/-eVxCs

Paywalled News Site Gets 35 Subscribers in 3 Months http://ff.im/-eVuUL

The Gallifrey Vortex: Doctor Who Series Five Jigsaw Puzzle http://ff.im/-eVokK

The penny drops about characters. David Bishop (who's written spin-off fiction for a range of franchises) talks about working on Doctors. http://ff.im/-eVnVe

Sitting in on the Prop 8 trial http://ff.im/-eUT3i 1 day ago

Dancing on Wheels, coming soon the BBC Three. Includes video of one of the choreographers walking out in a strop: http://bit.ly/do6pVT http://bit.ly/8VzCnL

The Hugh Cudlipp lecture: Does journalism exist? Alan Rusbridger on why paywalls are bad but will be unsurprisingly good for The Guardian which has pledged never to have one. http://ff.im/-eSe28

Is the internet destroying juries? http://ff.im/-eRd4e

It’s Always Tea Time Somewhere! http://ff.im/-ePWzP

James Patterson Inc. Or how some writers can churn out nine books a year. http://ff.im/-ePWuC

Top Gear is looking for editors. They forget to mentions "Cope with Jeremy" in the job description: http://bit.ly/5rA1kT

'What is the value of Linked Data to the news industry?' http://ff.im/-eOYiR

Movie Answer Man: Answered by Zuzu herself: The color of Zuzu's petals http://ff.im/-eOSRu

Speaking of which Peladon has branched out -- it's now offering automated document processing solutions: http://bit.ly/6iArNk

Isn't this just like sending trisilicate to the Peladonians? http://bit.ly/8cy7uo 2 days ago

Sundance and five Sundance-style movies http://ff.im/-eOO7d

Petroleum-Free Plastic Made from Smart Mud http://ff.im/-eOJjA

Radio Tuna Combines Music Discovery and Internet Radio. Somebody somewhere always seems to be playing ABBA: http://ff.im/-eOJjD

Sherlock Holmes verses the dinosaurs, starring Ianto Jones and Malcolm Reed : http://bit.ly/8rjurw 2 days ago

Open door: The readers' editor with… a valediction: going quietly. Siobhan Butterworth's final column as The Guardian's reader's editor. Frankly, I'm bereft. http://ff.im/-eOnYl 2 days ago

David will be free to play Bilbo then ... http://bit.ly/5vp0gg 2 days ago