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links for 2010-07-29

Posted: July 29th, 2010 | Filed under: Delicious | | No Comments »

Comme un grand connard

Posted: July 28th, 2010 | Filed under: Music, Video | Tags: , , | No Comments »

And now for something completely different. Sonic Youth covering Plastic Bertrand’s Ça plane pour moi, who has just admitted he never sang on his hit record.

links for 2010-07-28

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One apartment. 24 different rooms.

Posted: July 27th, 2010 | Filed under: Various, Video | Tags: , | No Comments »



One apartment. 24 different rooms. Hong Kong architect Gary Chang can change his typically tiny Chinese apartment into 24 different rooms using a clever system which allows him to slide walls around. He can come round my place any time to fix it up.

Caprica Season 1.5 preview

Posted: July 27th, 2010 | Filed under: Television, Video | | No Comments »

The gibbons at SyFy have decided to delay the start of Caprica 1.5 to January 2011. Much gnashing of teeth ensues. Looks like there’s going to be more action in it… a shift towards the feel of it’s mother series BSG, perhaps.

Meanwhile Airlock Alpha claims there will be a second season. Hope their sources are solid.

links for 2010-07-27

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links for 2010-07-26

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Mad Men Season 4 promo

Posted: July 25th, 2010 | Filed under: Television | | No Comments »

The TV series Mad Men returns tonight and here’s a ten minute promo for Season 4. I like the show more than I love it, not every episode (or season) has grabbed me. Since my dad was in advertising in the 60′s, there’s a bit of deja vu involved for me, which is fun. Don Draper, the series’ protagonist is a bit of a scoundrel and not a likeable one, but fortunately he’s surrounded by some characters that are. Unfortunately ‘Sal’ will not be back this season, but I’m looking forward to finding out what’s in store for ‘Peggy’, ‘Joan’ and ‘Roger’.

Alex Higgins, RIP

Posted: July 25th, 2010 | Filed under: Entertainment, Various | Tags: , | No Comments »

In another time and another place we were students with lots of time on our hands. We spend all week on the couch, reading the papers, drinking cinnamon tea and spice biscuits and taking the mickey out of each other. And then we got BBC 1 and 2 on our cable. Overnight we turned into fans, gobbling up the brilliant comedy (Spitting Image, Not the Nine O’Clock News, Fry and Laurie) and wasting many, many hours watching sports coverage as the Brits introduced us to their exotic games of darts, golf and snooker. Under the influence of the Beeb, darts and snooker took off in our country. We got a darts board and even tried our hand at snooker, in some of the new snooker halls opening up around the city. It was the era of Steve Davis famously ‘earning the right to be boring’, Dennis Taylor with his specs and Jimmy White. We liked White, but my favourite was Alex ‘Hurricane’ Higgins, because he played faster than anyone else, because he was a real character, because he wasn’t Steve Davis. Because he headbutted that referee.

Funny, unpredictable, volatile, Irish. Alex Higgins, legend, died of throat cancer on Saturday.

Joss Whedon’s Whedonesque shout out

Posted: July 24th, 2010 | Filed under: Culture, Video | | No Comments »

Joss Whedon name checks our website (Whedonesque.com) at the Joss Whedon Experience panel, Comic-Con 2010. 7’35″ into the video he is asked to describe his script writing process: “It’s a little something like this: ‘Oh, I have an idea. OH GAWD. OH GAWD. I’m hungry. Oh, Whedonesque. [?] of me. I feel better.’

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