The future of hypertext as seen from 1990

An intereting video has appeared on Google Video. It’s a documentary about hypertext made in 1990 by Douglas Adams (via Boing Boing). This was made at roughly the same time as the WWW was invented, but this programme mostly reminds me of those interactive CD-Rom encyclopedias you used to get in the 1990s. I also […]

Time Wipe

I seem to be having trouble posting a comment on Will’s blog, so I’ll say my bit here. He gives us advance warning that this week’s edition of Charlie Brooker’s Screen Wipe is a 50 minute long US edition, which means that it clashes with Time Trumpet! I wouldn’t have realised that! Did they mention […]

Top of the Pops was only axed because it was bad

Here is an article trying to explain why Top of the Pops is no longer needed (via DJ Martian). It contains all the usual cheesy stuff about how everybody now watches music on MySpace or whatever rather than the television. In my view there is still a place for a television programme such as Top […]

Biased BBC making monkeys out of Labour

For all of those shitting themselves at the BBC’s ‘Ascent of Tory man’ graphic last week: From Armando Iannucci’s late-1990s satire-a-thon, The Friday Night Armistice, broadcast on BBC Two. I actually have vague memories of this. Brilliant. What a fantastic programme it was. Images snaffled from James O’Malley, via TV Forum.

A new zenith — of sadness

Chris Applegate has an interesting post about that Design Quest vote thingy that The Culture Show had recently. Concorde won, which, as Chris pretty convincingly points out, is crap. I was going to write a post about this when the Design Quest launched but then I realised that it was going to turn into a […]

More evidence of The Day Today’s prescience

This is a post about DVD commentaries. I don’t know if this is firmly in the “obvious” category. I think three or four years ago, these commentaries were universally derided. Yet you rarely see any DVDs released without one, and I have seen people spitting tacks (of the cyber variety, on the internet) when a […]

My Winter Olympics experience

My Winter Olympics experience: Walk into a room with the Winter Olympics on television. Say, “Wow! I love (curling / luge / bob skeleton / snowboarding / insert slidey sport of choice here)!” Then don’t watch it. I actually love the Winter Olympics, but I’m not catching much of it this year. I’m sure the […]

Seven songs and non songs

I tried to bugger off yesterday, but you won’t leave me alone. For I’ve been tagged! List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they are any good, but they must be songs you are really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your […]

‘Outwith’ outwith the lexicon

I find etymology quite interesting, so I’m looking forward to Balderdash & Piffle on BBC Two tonight. They have a list of words that the OED want to find more printed evidence of. Although I suppose the whole point of this list is that it is surprising, I still can’t believe how new a lot […]