As I mentioned yesterday, I’ve made some fixes to my UK newspaper RSS feeds page. The fixes include Adding Daily Star links Fixing the Sun links (tho’ as I said yesterday, the Sun RSS feeds are still completely broken) Some tweaks to the Times and GU parsers The Independent section is currently broken. They have… Continue reading Newspaper RSS Feeds Updated
Category: media
New! Joss! Whedon!
This took me by surprise. Sounds interesting. [Note: This was a link to a story about Dollhouse. The link is dead now.]
The English Language
A predictable furore over at the BBC HYS about the future of the corporation. An astonishing number of people seem to like to use the BBC forums to tell everyone how much they hate the BBC. Here’s my personal favourite so far: Changes should be made immediately by canceling contract for the likes of Jonathan… Continue reading The English Language
Journalists and Maths
Why can’t journalists understand simple maths? Today it’s the turn of the Daily Mail to get it spectacularly wrong. The worthless degrees that add nothing to your pay Graduates with degrees in accountancy will earn almost double in their lifetime than their counterparts with an arts degree, research suggests. … But accountancy graduates gained the… Continue reading Journalists and Maths
Hours or Minutes
The Telegraph is slightly confused: Online crime hits 300 per minute By Ben Farmer Last Updated: 10:09am BST 06/09/2007 More than 300 internet crimes are being committed every hour… Hours? Minutes? Which is it? Ah well. It’s only numbers. I don’t suppose it’s important.
Ripper
From this weeks Popbitch Joss Whedon’s long awaited UK based Buffy spin-off, Ripper, starring Anthony Head, starts filming next summer for BBC. I sooo want that to be true.
We Can Be Heroes
If you’re one of those desperately untrendy people who still watches television on the terrestrial channels, then you won’t yet have seen Heroes. All that can change tonight as BBC Two are showing the first two episodes starting tonight at 9pm. Heroes is great. I mean, yes, it’s comic-book superhero stuff. And, yes, it’s largely… Continue reading We Can Be Heroes
Doctor Who News
On Saturday the third series of the revived (maybe “regenerated” is better) Doctor Who finished on BBC One. The last episode (capsule review – all a bit too silly for my tastes) ended with the Doctor alone in the TARDIS again as Martha Jones had decided to leave him and stay one Earth. Which all… Continue reading Doctor Who News
Love & Monsters Revisited
The success of this weekend’s Doctor Who story, “Blink“, has led to a number of comparisons with last season’s “doctor-light”[1] story, “Love and Monsters“. And I really don’t know why “Love and Monsters” comes off so badly in the comparison. It’s true that “Blink” is right up there as one of the best Doctor Who… Continue reading Love & Monsters Revisited
Blink
I haven’t been very impressed with this season of Doctor Who so far. Gridlock was ok and the recent two-parter (“Human Nature” and “The Family of Blood”) had some very interesting ideas which were spoilt by a horribly mawkish ending – but other than that it’s all been rather disappointing. But last night’s episode, “Blink”,… Continue reading Blink