The Simpsons & string theory?
String theory meets The Simpsons? How a fake word from The Simpsons ended up in a perfectly cromulent string theory paper – Sciam Observations: Scientific American Blog
Television
Loving the road...
The “Love The Road” campaign introduced New Zealand to the Mercedes Benz C-Class using a magical combination of Kiwi roads, music by Joel Haines , stunning scenery and production values to match. They...
The Daily Show on "The land where they filmed Lord Of the Rings"
New Zealand bans political satire - America to the rescue America to the Rescue - Fear not, New Zealanders, you may not be able to sh*t... Fear not, New Zealanders, you may not be able to sh*...
The end VHS, bye bye CRT?
Well you can still buy them, just, but Sony’s Winter Catalog shows how quickly times have changed. No mention of VHS and just one page with a few CRT Televisions. They are replaced by LCD screens a...
Bad Ad Physics? - Heineken World Rugby Cup 2007 Continental Shift
The Heineken World Rugby Cup 2007 Continental Shift advert shows Rugby teams pushing the continents together to form a mega-continent. Maybe I’m missing something: If you are standing on a conti...
Top Gear goes green?
Top Gear take on a green tinge, yes “Petrol head” Top Gear, even launching a collection of green’ish articles posts on a new blog “The Green Debate”. Top Gear Blog - The Green Debate Top Gear Blog - The Green DebateTags: Top+Gear
ABARTH TV Online
The new Abarth Division of Fiat have launched an on-line TV channel. Loads on good content already and sign-up for email newsletter to keep up to date with the return of the Scorpion. ABARTH TV T...
A no advert television alternative, Alt TV!
Alt TV are launching a new weekend line-up this weekend Introducing Gonzo Weekends 100% commercial free on Alt TV, Sky Digital 65 Alt TVs weekend Programme Director, Martyn Bomber Bradbury, r...
The old Sony is gone, but who knows where...
About 20 years ago I got a 27” Sony Trinitron TV. It was state of the art with NICAM Stereo and Teletext. About 6 years ago it was still going fine but the PAL only circuits couldn’t cope with NTSC...
Fixing TVNZ
I’ve decided the problem behind TVNZ’s falling ratings is nobody can possibly predict when their programs are going to screen. To remedy this I propose the following, rather drastic, changes to their...
Ian Richardson dies, so long FU
I was sad to learn actor Ian Richardson has died. He had a huge variety of roles on stage and screen but like most I’ll remember him best for the very English Porterhouse Blue and brilliant political...
Two views of America - Borat and Francis Fulford
I finally went to see Borat, the movie. It lived up to expectations by being rude, controversial, offensive (not to me but can see why some think that) and sometimes funny. Maybe if I had never see...