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Moi, Robot
Courtesy of Dave Young comes this promotional footage of an awesome wee chap; I’m a sucker for a wind-up tin robot but this, the Nao robot from Aldebaran Robotics, is really something else. While the practical school of thought dictates that the form of a robot should do no more than express its function, there’s…
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Where’s Skippy?
Here’s a piece of cultural history if you’re of a certain age… a visit to the standing sets of a 60’s TV show finds them in a state of ghostly preservation with props, sets and decor still intact…
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My Year
Well, every other blogger seems to be doing it… but I’ll keep mine short because, frankly, it’s been one of those years where you can’t run through the best of it without the risk of sounding like a total arse. Let’s just say I’ve had a lot to be grateful for. But to put that…
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Crusoe Slash
I suppose it had to happen…
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Mister Home and Handy
Between revising an outline on Friday and the studio notes call to discuss it on Monday, I found myself with a Saturday on which to catch up with all the stuff I can normally use the writing to get out of. Made it through the day with just three wrong holes drilled and one smashed…
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And While We’re Talking About Sexy Science…
From today’s Independent: “A respected research institute wanted Chinese classical texts to adorn its journal, something beautiful and elegant, to illustrate a special report on China. Instead, it got a racy flyer extolling the lusty details of stripping housewives in a brothel.” The text in question was used as cover art for the journal of…
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“Physics is the New Black”
Recent editions of the Wired blog and The Los Angeles Times carry similar articles about the rising popularity of hard science in TV drama, reflected in the launch of the Science and Entertainment Exchange. The Exchange is “a program of the National Academy of Sciences that provides entertainment industry professionals with access to top scientists…
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Widget, I’ve got a Widget…
You may notice that over in the right-hand column there’s an Eleventh Hour widget. Anyone can download it from the CBS site’s Eleventh Hour pages, and it delivers a daily factoid to your website or blog. A couple of days ago I learned from it that every time we sneeze, some of our braincells die.…
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I’m a Media Whore, Get Me Into There
I was in London earlier this week, and while walking down Westbourne Grove I was collared by a young woman with a clipboard and a man with a lightweight video camera. They were collecting vox pops in the rain for I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here (a Survivor-style reality show). She wanted to…
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Frequently Answered Questions
On Getting StartedI was lucky enough to start as a reader when horror was a subtle art, and just as lucky to start my career at the point where it turned into big business. So my early reading was people like HG Wells, Conan Doyle, Joseph Payne Brennan, and all those marvellous Pan Books of…
Hauling Like A Brooligan
Stephen Gallagher
