Dreams of a Life (trailer)
One of my haunting almost subconscious phobias has always been dying alone, and no one missing me for days or weeks. And you think, Well, that never happens.
Month: December 2011
question of the day: Should advertising on television be more regulated?
Right-wing Christians complain that a TV show about Muslims is too nice to them, and gets an advertiser to pull its ads. All hell breaks loose…
London photo of the day: if you can’t beat the 1 percent…
Selfridges on Oxford Street is going for a Versailles-before-the-Revolution motif for Christmas…
classic ‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “Time-Flight”
Let us be kind and say that this is not one of the most successful Doctor Who stories ever…
church of awesome: hit any key to journey back in time
Is your everyday computing experience just too damn 21st century? Take your tweeting and your blogging back to a more elegant age of computer with a steampunk keyboard…
London photo of the day: diversion ahead
Oxford Street, surely one of London’s busiest roads, but also definitely one of London busiest shopping areas, is closed to vehicular traffic this weekend and opened to pedestrians in an attempt to encourage holiday shopping.
Saturday cute: Renaissance Wonder Woman
Great Hera!
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (retro trailer)
Gotta love Walt Disney himself introducing the seven dwarfs…
question of the weekend: Do we diminish terrible events when we turn them into funny Internet memes?
Most of the riffs on the UC Davis pepper-spraying are satirical: the cop has been Photoshopped pepper-spraying fallen colonial soldiers of the American Revolution, little children listening to Jesus, and so on. But not all are so pointed…
London photo of the day: they do know it’s radio, right?
The BBC Radio 4 studio yesterday, decked out for Christmas even though this could not be captured by microphone.
