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So, our free ride is almost over. Spend as long as you can watching all of your favourite videos on Youtube as I’m sure that they will soon all be gone, replaced by the videos that are allowed to be uploaded by the record, movie and television companies. No longer will be you be able to dance in front of a webcam singing to a song looking like a moron and ‘Broadcast yourself’, as is the initiative that they have [...]

Filming for the BBC’s new Doctor Who spinoff, Torchwood (an anagram of Doctor Who) came to my office today whilst I was peacefully trying to get on with some work. I had been made aware of the intended disturbance well in advance, so I came prepared with my digital camera and DV camera. Stars of the show John Barrowman and Eve Myles were on set, but as yet I haven’t managed to catch a shot of either of them (most of [...]

An artist, known only as Slinkachu, is running a ‘tiny street art’ project in London right now. You may have seen it mentioned in todays Metro newspaper. In his own words, they are “Little hand-painted people, left in London to fend for themselves.”. In a variety of different locations, designed to emulate real-people situations (and some not-so real situations). One of my favourites is Waiting for the lift, which replicates a real lift, which by the look of it is [...]

Sure, the odds are slim that you’d ever be faced with an atomic device ticking down to zero. But think of how Jack Bauer it’d be if you were. And then who’re you going to trust? Us or some do-gooder rock band? Disconnect the wires leading from the battery or the trigger/timer to the detonator. The battery will look like a battery; the timer is the part that’s counting down. Be careful: This is the trickiest part of the bomb [...]