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Alternative 3

Alternative-3 was a hoax TV documentary broadcast in the late 1970s. It maintained there was a conspiracy between the scientific, military and economic elites of the world to escape a forthcoming...

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Connections

I have just spent an hour of a cold, wet Finnish summer afternoon, transported back to being 6 years old in 1978, watching the first episode of “Connections” by James Burke. What an incredible series...

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New Who: Derbyshire, Wales and everything inbetween.

On a flight watching “Rose”, the first episode of the new Dr. Who as rebooted by Russell T. Davies and produced by BBC Wales. As Hammersley says – if this hasn’t been deliberately leaked by the newly...

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No screens = “Serenity”

One upside of being down for the count over a long weekend is that there’s no guilt in eating an entire boxed set of TV all at once. I sat down (well, lied down) to take in Joss Whedon’s aborted cowboy...

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Eloi vs Morlocks: Fictional Superspies Edition

When it comes to the people saving the Earth, or just the UK, or even just Cardiff from peril – don’t you want them to have a little more technical savvy, than, say a bored teenager? Take a look at...

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Hulu-buloo! Lower lights!!!

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Exploratory philanthopy and public-service content

While this might be a typically hilarious technocratic and somewhat bloodless statement by Bill Gates, you have to admire the project itself: ‘”LSST is truly an internet telescope which will put...

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Retconning Alternative-3

Chances are if we’ve been to the pub together over the last 15 years, I will have mentioned Alternative-3, amongst the canon of great media proto-ARGs that include Orson Welles’ War Of The Worlds,...

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Photowall launches

Quick work thing. We’ve working with Chromecast for a little while. Chromecast is basically a chrome browser on a stick that plugs into the back of your telly using the HDMI port and once connected to...

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