links for 2009-12-11
Published on 11 December 2009 in Daily Links
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Quite.
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Perhaps it’s the same people who put a tampon machine in the gents toilets when I worked at Bush House…
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I suspect there’s a sizeable portion of people who think because they own a HD Ready TV, they’re viewing HD TV – like the way there still are a number of people who think Widescreen TV is just the old signal stretched out a bit wider…
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No more Flight of the Conchords. Shame, but best to go out on a high note (pun intended).
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A former colleague of mine once suggested you could write a programme to electronically compare tube map versions to spot differences. Don’t think he ever wrote it (and besides he lives in San Francisco these days), however Diamond Geezer does the job far better than any script could.
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Sorry, but I really don’t like pink pastels. Nothing at all to do with "girlyness". Just don’t like it in any scenario. But if you do, flaunt it. Besides, there’s nowt new here – Stuart Hall used to wear pink shirts on North West Tonight in the 1980s! Get men wearing skirts and dresses regularly and that’ll be a news story.
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"one senior FM&T figure told Broadcast it was a ‘steaming pile of shit’." Quote of the week mate, quote of the week.
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If it doesn’t end in a swimming pool with the cry "Away You Go!" before 50 odd kids all simultaneously divebomb into the pool, then, it’ll be crap
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If you’d like a sneek preview of what BBC iPlayer looks like on Freesat, well, errr, our amazingly hidden test code got found out and someone’s put a video up. We’ve changed the code by the way… (Note to self – don’t use codes that spell out TEST on a remote control in future.)
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No, it’s not April 1.