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I don't often watch vids online, but this YouTube video of the BigDog Quadraped Robot is just unreal. Boston Dynamics have just won U.S. $10 million from the Pentagon to develop it further.... A bucolic.
I've been saddened by the summer weather we (in the UK) have been enjoying these past few days. Normally such melancholia doesn't overtake me till the arrival of summer's September dog days, when... Wrestling with assistants - Sally vs Donna
Have you ever had a summer fling? While on holiday, say? Perhaps with a foreign national? Was it intense? passionate? incredibly special? Did it last? Did it survive being on different sides of the... EEEK! Lin has invaded my dreams!
There seem to have been a lot of hairy happenings* recently – and I'm not talking about the kind of hairiness that can cured by a course of depilatory cream. So I thought I'd plunder the... The Sun says, "BBC bosses demand red TARDIS"
British tabloid newspaper The Sun , today claimed that BBC bosses will repaint the TARDIS red in the fourth series of Doctor Who to better reflect the violent and bloody content of the show. ... "Insane and slightly Magnificent" - a Sequel
Two, who would true idiocy see, this week came hither.* So then in constancy... lets greet my new friends. (And take a break from Doctor Who, banners, and general earache...) First up is... Da Place for Fonts
A quick plug: if you're after fonts for banners and the like, try www.dafont.com . It has a good selection of free fonts, handily organised by appearance, and will preview text without you... The Ten Doctors - a writer's P.O.V.
Dabbling at writing fanfic has given me a fresh perspective on David Tennant's Doctor, so, as everybody loves disagreeing with a list, I thought I'd enumerate the Doctor's I'd most like to... Memento mori: first blush.
While reviewing Gridlock , it occured to me that the Doctor is the perpetual deus ex machina ; he may not fit the Judeo-Christian notions of divinity nurtured in R.E. lessons, but the... Is this the dullest dream ever?
My recent dreams have been dramatically cinematic, with a fist fight on the upturned front scoop of a JCB, and a paddle-steamer chase down an implausibly narrow river.  I mentioned this on Lin's... Word of the Week 13/5/2007
This week's word of the week is i n v a g i n a t e . Go on, say it aloud. ‘Invaginate.’ Doesn't that feel fabulous? Your tongue swirling between the ‘v’ and the... Startled at the stillness broken...
You know how you feel, when a bunch of friends arrive unexpectedly and you're out of booze? Well that's how I feel about now, because y'all seem to have arrived on the back of my last, rather... How not taking the TV.com 'game' too seriously cost me an editorship...
I signed up for TV.com to write a few reviews, and chat in the forums - happy to leave the grunt work of submitting to those fans who could be persuaded to work for nothing more than a warm glow... Word of the Week 29/4/2007
In honour of Nhubi , today's word of the week is-- by Jove! -- J o v i a n , an adjective used to describe anything related to the planet Jupiter, such as the Jovian atmosphere. Be wary,... Petition for HTML in reviews.
If you've ever wanted to put a spot of HTML in a review - say italicise a name - then post your demands to this forum . And while you're at it, fashion a blog entry to spread the word. There will be no word of the week next week because...
There will be no 'Word of the Week' , next week, because this smart-arse web site has decided to censor it. It's not rude, it's just the name of a piece of sodding grammar.  So I... Word of the Week 16/4/2007
This is the first in an occasional series of posts, in which we visit the backwaters of the English language. Today, a word the dictionary probably wouldn't miss: antiscorbutic . According to... So he goes...
As a writer, he cornered the market in time-travelling aliens from Tralfamadore. My notes on his novel Timequake (1997) conclude "...the work of a master craftsman." But in retrospect that... What a Con...
Dreams can be strange things: last night I dreamt I was checking-out of a hotel. To my surprise, the bill included a charge for gazing at contrails . Being a dream, this made perfect sense; I... TV.com's Review Rating System
An inauspicious beginning to my blog – but whoever agreed with my review of Primeval episode 5: (a) thanks – it made my day; (b) how on Earth, in any era, did you agree with all that...