Archive for December, 2008

It’s like porn for Apple geeks

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

Thirty years of Apple products in a little over three and a half minutes – with a Beatles cover for the soundtrack!

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NSFW: What a strange advert

Sunday, December 14th, 2008

In case you don’t know the acronym – NSFW = Not Safe For Work. That is, if your work frowns upon the sight of naked female breasts in a Danish advert.

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What will those pesky Daleks come up with next!?

Saturday, December 13th, 2008

Having a quiet Saturday night in, surfing Amazon to find some stocking filler presents for my daughter; a girl who’s crazy about two things – High School Musical and Dr Who.

Well, until Disney and the BBC unite to do a crossover (Zac Efron as the replacement for David Tennant perhaps?), I leave it to her Mum to get the High School Musical stuff, whilst Dad keeps her happy with all things Who.

So imagine my surprise when I came across this…

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Oliver Postgate R.I.P.

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Pogles’ Wood, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, The Clangers and Bagpuss.

Responsibility for any one of these would be enough to capture the hearts of a generation of children: Oliver Postgate was responsible for them all.

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The one where Ross rails against religion…

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

(Note: apologies if this meanders, it started off with such a tight brief too).

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