"Destroy him, my robots." -- Digital voiceover, 'Impossible Mission'

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Books My first computer was an Acorn Electron . It was the cheaper home version of the BBC Micro with a similar cream finish but smaller ...

Review 2007: Update: 7/31

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Review 2007 Don't forget I'm still looking for contributions to this year's Review 2007 and it would be great to have you alon...

“Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are” -- Oscar Wilde

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Politics So Kate Moss apparently mistook David Cameron for a plumber . Here is the problem I have with the story as Cameron tells it and ...

one hundred and one more things I would put into room 101...

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It's nearly five years since the last list so it's about time for an update. Although frankly this time I could have gone to five ...
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“Attraction is not a choice.” -- David DeAngelo

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Dating Marvo at The Impulisive Buy considers Match.com : "Sure I could do it the old fashioned way and walk up to a complete strange...

Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (Part One)

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TV Deep in the mists, probably the late nineties, I was at one of those parties having one of those conversations with someone who’d cle...

“We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.” -- Benjamin Jowett

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Music My ears! My eyes! Too much pink! "A children's animated classical music experience, Barbie™ at the Symphony is a special ...

"Thou Shalt Signal Thy Intentions To Manoeuvre" -- Meg Pickard

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Lists Meg Pickard offers Ten Commandments of Modern Social Decency : "Honour Thy Fellow Citizens (Or At Least, Thou Shalt Not Be A P...

"For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake." -- Alfred Hitchcock

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Film Lisa Drysdale reveals a quirky New York cinema : "At DRV-IN, good weather is assured (it's actually indoors) except for the ...

"Which internet is Keen an expert on?" -- Kristine Lowe

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Journalism Kristine Lowe offers a welcome argument against Andrew Keen's Cult of the Amateur , which says that amateur journalists an...

“When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain” -- Shakespeare

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Plug! Some long overdue mentions. Firstly, Katie Lips, she of The Bold Street Project amongst a whole vast range of over things has help...

"Social norms may force you to go to rehab for your stupidity, but the law can't touch you at all." -- Elizabeth Wurtzel

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The Law Prozac Nation 's Elizabeth Wurtzel seemed to drop off the planet a couple of years ago (some say for reasons which are explain...

"Hello, my name is Dave Gorman." -- Dave Gorman, 'The Dave Gorman Collection'

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Film Dave Gorman reveals what he was up to last year : "You might or might not know that last year I went off on an American road tr...

"At last, we can retire and give up this life of crime." -- Zoe, 'Serenity'

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TV It might not have escaped you're attention that Joss Whedon's finally been handed a commission for a new tv show with Eliza Dus...

" You may be a redneck if... your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand." -- Jeff Foxworthy

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Life Bonfire night, and the city's main display sprang from a box on the parade field at Sefton Park exactly opposite to our flat so w...

"During that summer the channel broadcast one of the most beautiful documentaries it has ever funded." -- Me, below.

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TV I've been meaning to mention this for at least five days. Off The Telly have updated their Channel 4 at 20 article to include the...

We've got to be ready. Y'know and stuff.

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TV Freema Agyeman dot com has the premiere cover of the new Torchwood Magazine . Exclusive comic strip threatened. Anyone know who is wr...

"The spirit of the theme park - queues, noise, spooky music - is upon me and, however hard I concentrate, I just can't shake it off." -- Rachel Cooke

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History The Observer's Rachel Cooke visited the Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs at its Philadelphia stop off ahead of...

‘There will be no miracles here." -- Nathan Coley

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Art I’d been quite excited that the Turner Prize exhibition would be berthed in Liverpool this year , having spent years watching critics ...

Countdown to a Voodoo Child

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TV Aah, midi files. In the days before mp3s they were about the only way to get a coherent tune out of your PC -- so long as you didn...