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Netflix is about to discover that Britain bites back | GigaOM
Bobbie Johnson: "From the outside, the British and Irish market looks like a vast patchwork of services and providers: perfect territory for a big, swaggering giant to come in and clean up. In fact, the truth is just the opposite: For Netflix to get anything like the success it has had in America, it will need to find out a way to get around Rupert Murdoch and the BBC, two of the world’s most powerful media forces. They have no reason to work with Netflix and every reason to actively work against it."
television  netflix  uk  sky  bbc  murdoch  broadcasting  internet  from instapaper
january 2012 by blech
A Point of View: The euro's strange stories | BBC News
"With the euro in turmoil, writer and academic Mary Beard explores the odd tales from myth and history told on the currency's coins." The rape of Europa by Zeus and other stories.
bbc  news  comment  marybeard  coins  currency  design  culture  stories  from instapaper
november 2011 by blech
A Point of View: In praise of wind turbines | BBC News
"The countryside is often a man-made landscape, not a natural idyll, and wind turbines are just part of that tradition, writes Will Self." A good read.
bbc  news  comment  willself  countryside  uk  environment  energy  politics  landscape  from instapaper
november 2011 by blech
Il Pleut. Greece has poured vinegar on the G20's frites | BBC News
"All the stories on the news are merging into one big story." - Paul Mason on the g20 SuperCannes
bbc  news  eurozone  comment  politics  via:moleitau  from instapaper
november 2011 by blech
Why euphemism is integral to modern warfare | BBC News
Will Self on fine form on Radio 4's A Point Of View.
bbc  comment  willself  defence  war  economics  politics  from instapaper
october 2011 by blech
Jo Glanville · ‘Auntie Mabel doesn’t give a toss about Serbia’: The World Service · LRB 25 August 2011
On the World Service and the deal to transfer it from the Foreign Office to the BBC. "This was an unprecedented way of doing business: the future of one of the country’s greatest institutions decided in a matter of days, without public consultation and with its new mechanisms of governance left undecided."
bbc  worldservice  lrb  article  government  foreignoffice  from instapaper
august 2011 by blech
BBC - Newsnight: Paul Mason: I re-fight World War Two and lose
A fascinating piece taking Hearts of Iron III - a simulation of the Second World War - as its starting point and leaping from that into a look at how the simplistic narrative we've built of the run up to that conflict is hiding a lot of the story. Well worth a read.
politics  history  worldwartwo  1930s  bbc  games  from delicious
july 2011 by blech
So long overnight TV. And thanks for all the late night poker and big brown ties | Television & radio | The Guardian
"One of the important things about telly was that sometimes it stopped. We can feel nostalgia for the sour-sweet satisfactions of the cathode ray tube whining down to a faint white dot, then a spectral after-image, before vanishing altogether." On closedown and its potential reintroduction.
bbc  television  culture  closedown  night  from delicious
march 2011 by blech
Rupert Murdoch - A Portrait Of Satan | BBC - Adam Curtis Blog
"Rupert Murdoch doesn't like the BBC. And sometimes the BBC doesn't seem to like Rupert Murdoch either."
bbc  rupertmurdoch  from instapaper
january 2011 by blech
BAA says December's cold weather cost it £24m | BBC News
"BAA said it had handled 7.2 million passengers at its six UK airports in December, down 10.9% from a year ago." Also, Virgin Atlantic is witholding fees because of the "slow reaction" to snow. Fun times.
bbc  news  business  baa  airport  heathrow  snow  travel  transport  from delicious
january 2011 by blech
BBC News - Stargazing and dark sky tourism
BBC News Magazine on dark skies and stagazing tourism. "These sights will be explored in BBC Two's Stargazing Live this week, timed to coincide with the meteor shower and partial eclipse."
astronomy  uk  news  bbc  tourism  stargazing  from delicious
january 2011 by blech
The joy of train travel: From New Zealand to London | BBC News
"International train travel has always had a romantic appeal." On travelling halfway around the world by train.
trains  travel  bbc  article  china  from instapaper
december 2010 by blech
From a rock to an old place | BBC- Nick Booth's blog
"Websites like Flickr are not just collections of pictures. They are places where people forge links which are strong enough to change the places we care about."
flickr  community  geography  photography  bbc  @podnosh  via:straup  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
It's not me, it's you | Phil Gyford’s website
"I want Today to be good. I want it to be in-depth and have an interesting agenda. I want it to be the radio equivalent of, say, the very best of broadsheet newspapers (not the highest bar in the world, but you’d think it might be possible). Instead, it all too often ends up as the radio equivalent of mid-market tabloids."
radio  radio4  bbc  today  news  philgyford  blogcomment  from delicious
august 2010 by blech
London: Another Country? | BBC Radio 4
"London: Another Country? will explore what happens when 7.5 million people, speaking over 300 languages, try to live together in a city that has a population density ten times higher than anywhere else in the UK, but is the greenest city of its size in the world."
london  radio4  bbc  season  history  todo/done  radio  from delicious
june 2010 by blech
One third fail British citizenship test | BBC News
"Citizens of English-speaking countries tended to do best in the 24 question multiple-choice exam." Perhaps unsurprising, that one. However, the Soviet Union's 100% pass rate beats that of the United States (97.7%)...
news  bbc  citizenship  immigration  lifeintheuk  from delicious
may 2010 by blech
A world without planes | BBC News - Today
Alain de Botton's thoughts on a world without air travel, sparked by the current lack of flights across much of Europe.
bbc  news  today  radio4  alaindebotton  flight  aviation  peakoil  future  comment  from delicious
april 2010 by blech
People happy to use airport full-body scanners | BBC News
"Nine out of 10 British people are happy to use full-body scanners being rolled out at UK airports." "The poll of 10,000 people, including 977 Britons... found acceptance of the scanners was highest in the UK." "One in three surveyed in Germany and Belgium objected, and only 45% in Hong Kong and 24% in Mexico were in favour."
news  bbc  politics  security  securitytheathre?  privacy  scanner  from delicious
april 2010 by blech
Facebook, Electoral Commission launch voter push | BBC News
"In a tie-up with the Electoral Commission, Facebook users who visit the site over the weekend will be asked if they have registered to vote."
uk  election  facebook  politics  bbc  news  from delicious
april 2010 by blech
BBC Radio 4 'On the Map' recording | Collins Maps Blog
"Mike Parker, author of Map Addict, will present the ten, 15-minute programmes. They will go out on Radio 4, Monday to Friday at 3.45pm in the weeks beginning 22nd and 29th March. The series looks at maps and map-making since the beginning of the twentieth century and will cover the use of maps for everything from leisure and motoring to propaganda and story-telling."
maps  radio  radio4  bbc  history 
march 2010 by blech
dot.Rory: Do we need a digital Parliament? | BBC News
"Where do you find the [Digital Economy Bill] that finally emerged - and in particular the controversial clauses? I tried - and failed - to locate the key bits, until I received some help from a colleague who has been immersed in the Parliamentary system for many years."
bbc  news  politics  information  digitaleconomybill  legislation 
march 2010 by blech
Secret papers 30-year rule reduced to 20 | BBC News
"The 30-year rule for publishing secret government papers is to be reduced to 20 years ... phased in over 10 years by doubling the amount of old records released each year".
bbc  news  government  information  politics  history  data 
february 2010 by blech
Iran to ban airlines not using 'Persian Gulf' | BBC News
"The Iranian transport minister has given foreign airlines 15 days to change the name to Persian Gulf on their in flight monitors. If they failed, they would be prevented from entering Iranian airspace, he warned." How are they going to know? Still, another interesting example of names being touchy. (I note the BBC's map says 'The Gulf'.)
news  politics  geography  geopolitics  names  transport  airlines  maps  bbc 
february 2010 by blech
Vancouver 2010 - Olympics Live | BBC Sport
This is the page I need to bookmark so I can actually watch stuff live.
bbc  video  olympics  sport 
february 2010 by blech
Page-turning passion | BBC News
Usually I'm a fan of Lisa Jardine's A Point Of View pieces, but this one strikes the wrong note. Digital books will differ from paper books, but to say that nonlinear reading will vanish (won't Find make it easier?) or that annotation will die (I can get Blog All Dog-Eared Pages posts from anyone, not just friends I happen to live near) seems short-sighted. The implicit criticism of DRM might be well-judged, though.
books  publishing  digital  lisajardine  comment  bbc  ebook 
january 2010 by blech
Carbolic smoke ball: fake or cure? | BBC News
"The curious case of the carbolic smoke ball forced companies to treat customers honestly and openly and still has impact today." On why a quack cure still influences our law.
bbc  news  radio4  programme  advertising  law  victorian  london 
november 2009 by blech
Awards offered for map mash-ups | BBC News
BBC press release for an Ordnance Survey competition. Except: "Ideas already submitted include a service that lets pedestrians map safe routes based on the location of CCTV cameras." "There are three broad themes for the GeoVation prize - crime, health and the environment, although entrants can come up with other ideas." Sigh.
news  bbc  ordnancesurvey  geowanking  competition  pressrelease 
october 2009 by blech
Jonathan Meades: Off Kilter | BBC Four
Posted on recommendations alone, but: a Jonathan Meades documentary series, in which he "takes a quixotic tour of Scotland, a country which has intrigued him since he first encountered lists of towns only known from football coupons.".
bbc  bbcfour  jonathanmeades  television  documentary 
september 2009 by blech
Thunderbirds will grow a generation of mad engineers | Wired UK
Warren Ellis: "As an antidote to this audiovisual paraquat they intend to spray into our children's eyes, I say the BBC should re-run Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds. Bear with me."
television  technology  education  science  bbc  wired  wireduk 
september 2009 by blech
Magazine: Early dinner | BBC News
Laurie Taylor on food and class. A good read (and hopefully a signifier of a good Something Understood tonight).
bbc  news  magazine  comment  uk  class  food  tea 
august 2009 by blech
End of the line for British TVs | BBC News
On the birth and death of the British TV manufacturing industry, with interesting digressions on the fact that we still make programmes and the future of the screen as a focal point for living rooms.
uk  bbc  news  television  manufacturing  culture  business  media  technology 
august 2009 by blech
Royal photo theft pair sentenced | BBC News
"The defendants were offered £25,000 by The Sun for the pictures, taken on a Middleton family holiday on the Caribbean island of Mustique. But the pair turned it down, saying they wanted £50,000 for the photographs, and were then reported to police by the newspaper." Nice to see the Sun have a good set of values there, eh.
thesun  news  journalism  crime  privacy  bbc  royalfamily 
august 2009 by blech
Met Office cools summer forecast | BBC News
On the Met Office and the accuracy (or otherwise) of its seasonal forecasts.
weather  uk  metoffice  bbc  news 
july 2009 by blech
You give me road rage | BBC News
"Sometimes you can become ideologically correct by simply standing still. For years I've thoroughly disliked everything about cars. I don't want to drive or be driven in cars. I don't want to talk about the relative merits of different cars." Laurie Taylor is going after my own heart there.
bbc  news  magazine  motoring  car  comment 
july 2009 by blech
Hovercraft still afloat 50 years on | BBC News
A BBC News story on the 50th anniversary of the hovercraft's public debut (coinciding with the hovercraft museum open day, too). Includes video of a prototype hovercraft flying down the Thames past the Houses of Parliament.
hovercraft  bbc  news  transport  failedfuture  london  video 
july 2009 by blech
Where can I find the Real streams for listen live? | BBC iPlayer
I'd much rather listen live in Realplayer than in Safari; I'm much less likely to accidentally close the window, for one thing. The WMA links are handy for FStream.
bbc  radio  iplayer  realplayer 
july 2009 by blech
News of the World bugged Sun editor | BBC - Peston's Picks
Robert Peston on the wider journalistic practices behind the NOTW phone conversation affair. "In a series of reports and in evidence to the House of Commons culture, media and sport committee, [the retiring information commissioner] made a series of disclosures about newspaper activities that he regarded as "prima facie" illegal."
newspapers  journalism  sun  bbc  law 
july 2009 by blech
get_iplayer now Embedded Media Player | Linuxcentre
A Perl script for downloading from iPlayer now supports video streamed elsewhere on the BBC site. For example, on the Glastonbury pages. (I believe the performances are only up there for a week.)
bbc  iplayer  download  naughty  via:pip 
june 2009 by blech
Radio 4 Blog: Four minutes. Exactly. | BBC
A nice post about the difficulties of synchronising the FM news report with the LW news and shipping forecast at noon.
bbc  radio4  shippingforecast  via:russelldavies 
may 2009 by blech
BBC NEWS | UK | Homes rejected for social housing
"'Many of the homes that we are being offered would not meet those standards and quite sensibly housing associations looking at those homes are saying they are not of a suitable quality for them to purchase.'" "The UK builds the smallest homes in the developed world."
uk  housing  news  bbc 
may 2009 by blech
Car ownership up as mileage falls | BBC News
"The rapid growth in the use of cars over the last century appears to have halted, although the UK remains "car-reliant", the RAC Foundation says." "A decrease in weekly mileage in the decade to 2006 may have been due to more people travelling abroad, increased congestion putting people off, and better public transport in some urban areas."
uk  news  transport  bbc  rac  cars 
april 2009 by blech
Analysis: The threat of thrift | BBC News
'Can this new mood of "conspicuous austerity" really challenge a consumer culture in which thriftiness has long been seriously out of fashion?' Thankfully, Analysis has transcripts, so you can skim for the good bits hidden in the waffle (like 'rebranding thrift').
bbc  radio4  ecomony  climatechange  thrift 
march 2009 by blech
Afternoon Play: The State of the Art | BBC iPlayer
Iain M Banks gets adapted for radio. I thought it worked fairly well.
radio  theculture  sciencefiction  drama  bbc  radio4  fiction  speechification 
march 2009 by blech
ABC cancels "Life On Mars" | Fluxtumblr
I can't say I'm surprised. "[The US version] kept trying to distance itself from its best qualities — great high concept, immersion in ’70s NYC from the perspective of a modern cop, terrific cast, odd sexual dynamics — by forcing itself into the procedural cop show format" (Partly posted as an attempt to poke Tom Armitage into expanding on the idea of a functional TV show, and also for the Dollhouse references.)
television  culture  adaptation  bbc  abc 
march 2009 by blech
Science Fiction Drama | BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 7
Lots of goodies, but particularly "5 Mar 2009 14:15: The State of the Art - Dramatisation of an Iain M banks story in which the Culture, a spacebound utopian civilisation, encounters Earth" Also Rendezvous with Rama, The Death of Grass.
bbc  radio  audio  drama  radio4  theculture  iainbanks  speechification  tolisten 
february 2009 by blech
Analysis: Rolling Stones | BBC News
"Where is the happy medium? Too much travelling and we endanger the planet, not enough travelling and we risk becoming depressed, the wrong sort of travelling - commuting - and we suffer from stress, so how can we marry our behaviour to our innate travelling needs?" Handily, Analysis has lovely support materials: an MP3 (for a week, anyway) and a transcript. `There's also a related magazine article (under See Also).
transport  radio4  bbc  analysis  speechification  transcript 
february 2009 by blech
Warning over new US travel rules | BBC News
Apply for a visa waiver at least 72 hours before travel, online, or you're not getting US entry. "Esta is free but [Frances Tuke, from Abta] warned that searches for Esta online brought up numerous websites offering to process the application in return for personal details and a fee." So BBC News have it as a Related Link? No, of course they don't.
us  travel  airport  visa  tourism  bbc  news 
january 2009 by blech
London and Contemporary Britain in Monkey Dust | EUP
A paper by Claire Monk on Monkey Dust, the obscure (but popular in 2lmc) animated sketch show on BBC Three, from The Journal of British Cinema and Television, concentrating on how it's London-centric. The full-article PDF seems to be free.
bbc  comedy  television  pdf  via:recoil 
january 2009 by blech
Leigh film honoured by US critics | BBC News
"Israeli animation Waltz With Bashir went away with the best film trophy" at the National Society of Film Critics awards. Good. I'm hoping Wall-E will be nominated for Best Film at either BAFTA or the Oscars; it'd be nice to see the walls of the animation ghetto crumble a bit.
film  award  news  bbc  wall-e 
january 2009 by blech
How To Get Things Really Flat | Radio 4
The first section of BBC Radio 4's latest Book of the Week sounded pretty good when I heard it before the shipping forecast last night. How to: wash clothes. "Read by Shaun Dooley" who sounds just right.
bbc  radio4  book  audiobook  audio  speechification  cleaning 
december 2008 by blech
Collect life lessons as you pass go | BBC News
"WOPR - fictional 20th Century military computer, disliked noughts and crosses" That's a bit reductive, but I suppose it counts as a win for the pop reference fans. The article's really about board games.
bbc  magazine  article  games  boardgames 
december 2008 by blech
Pope talk emphasises gender roles | BBC - Today
"The Pope has said that "saving" humanity from homosexual or transsexual behaviour is just as important as saving the rainforests." At least one of the two Catholics the BBC (bafflingly) chose to debate this nonsense is reasonably sane. Joanna Bogle, on the other hand, seems to have some sort of problem with a strawman version of science that believes there are no gender differences and that because men are women and vice versa we're dying. Please, keep her off the radio in future.
bbc  radio4  today  homosexuality  religion  catholic 
december 2008 by blech
How to get BBC iPlayer on the Mac working | James Cridland
Or, rather, "how to officially download low quality MP4 files with DRM". Why bother when you can stream better quality versions and not have to faff about with an Adobe Air app, which (as one commenter notes) isn't even particularly Macish?
iplayer  bbc  mac  download  via:blackbeltjones 
december 2008 by blech
Tristan Ferne, and his 'startup' team | Guardian
"[The BBC] still sometimes treats the web as a supporting medium for broadcast programmes when it can be so much more than that." An interesting read from one of the members of the team at the Future Media and Technology group.
bbc  fmt  guardian  interview  radio 
december 2008 by blech
World famous- within your own borders | BBC News
Clive James gives a point of view: "Everyone knows that Mexicans are Mexicans but few of us can tell a Canadian from an American unless the Canadian is speaking French."
bbc  news  comment  culture  film  society  canada  australia  uk  us 
december 2008 by blech
BBC iPlayer: bad, good, then bad again? | PC Pro blog
"The BBC also plans to hop needlessly on to the social networking bandwagon, in what iPlayer chief Anthony Rose is already painfully describing as “Broadcast 2.0”." Er, that's not needless at all; I get a lot of useful tips from Watchification, and baking in user recommendations is a great idea. (The 2.0 moniker is a bit rubbish though.) Also, I hope an Air desktop client doesn't mean Flash is gone from the website.
bbc  iplayer  air  social 
december 2008 by blech
The Draftsman's Contract, Episode 1 | BBC Radio 4
"Shaun Ley examines the work of the people who actually write our country's legislation - the Parliamentary draftsmen - and whether laws should be gender-neutral, simpler and fewer." I know it's easy to draw parallels between law and code, but there were moments in this short radio show when it was unavoidable.
politics  law  uk  civilservice  bbc  radio4  programme  speechification 
december 2008 by blech
The Box arrives in Singapore | BBC News
Turns out that the BBC's shipping container experiment has set off at an interesting time. "The global economic slowdown, however, has cut into shipment volumes across the industry. Singapore has been especially hard hit, with freight rates falling to six-year lows and local shipping companies seeing their share prices freefall." Also, piracy. Next: Shanghai.
bbc  news  container  shipping  thebox 
october 2008 by blech
Man fined for taking photograph | BBC News
'Sebastian Przygodzki took a photograph with his camera, which upset Rebecca Smith and her friends called police ... Sheriff Kenneth Hogg said the matter "could be best described as exceptionally unchivalrous"'. Hence a £100 fine for "breach of the peace", one of those handy UK "anything can be illegal" laws.
photography  news  bbc  law  privacy  via:jerakeen 
october 2008 by blech
Things to do with /programmes: iTunes | BBC - Radio Labs
Unfortunately I couldn't get the Erlang to work - maybe I was trying with too new a compiler? - but this writeup makes it look like I should perhaps give it another go.
apple  itunes  daap  iplayer  bbc  radio  todo  erlang  via:tristanf 
september 2008 by blech
BBC NEWS | Business | The Box takes off on global journey
"The Box is an ambitious and unique year-long project for BBC News to tell the story of international trade and globalisation by tracking a standard shipping container around the world."
bbc  news  tv  politics  container  via:thegareth 
september 2008 by blech
Admission fee is scrapped at ICA | BBC News
Well, that bumps the bar up a bit as a place to randomly drop into. Or it would if I was ever that far west.
london  ica  art  bbc  news 
september 2008 by blech
"Online maps 'wiping out history'" | jerakeen.org
Tom Insam runs with my commentary (why don't the OS get their data onto the Google interface?) and highlights the Google response: the data's there, it's just not displayed. Unfortunately, as he also notes, there's not much of a good UI to display it in the end either.
bbc  news  maps  geography  google  uk  comment  ordnancesurvey  geowanking  jerakeen  tominsam 
august 2008 by blech
Online maps 'wiping out history' | BBC News
The oft-quoted portion seems to be "Projects such as Open Street Map, through which thousands of Britons have contributed their local knowledge to map pubs, landmarks and even post boxes online, are the first step in the fight back against "corporate blankwash". Yes, but...
bbc  news  maps  geography  google  uk  comment  ordnancesurvey  geowanking  via:everyone 
august 2008 by blech
iPhone ad rapped as 'misleading' | BBC News
'the advert said "all the parts of the internet are on the iPhone" [but] because the iPhone did not support Flash or Java [...] the claim was misleading'
apple  technology  advertising  iphone  asa  bbc  news 
august 2008 by blech
Average Conditions - London | BBC - Weather Centre
On average, August is the second-wettest month of the year, behind November. Driest? March and April tie.
london  weather  climate  bbc  history  data 
august 2008 by blech
Britain seen from above | BBC News
BBC News pimping their TV shows again, but what a show: this is a video of some of the best bits of Britain from the Air, which will feature visualitions of such things as air traffic, London taxis, ships in the Channel and telephone exchanges.
uk  bbc  visualisation  traffic  aviation  shipping  taxi  london  gps  video  telephone  via:joshua 
august 2008 by blech
What the Papers Say axed after 52 years | guardian.co.uk
I was a bit of a fan of this back in the day. Its erratic scheduling made it a bit hard to keep watching, but it's a shame it's going. Hopefully, as has happened in the past, it'll shift channels (hell, I'd be happy if Sky News took it on).
television  newspapers  bbc  itv  media  comment  news  review  via:jack 
may 2008 by blech
Moffat replaces Davies at Who helm | guardian.co.uk
"Scriptwriter Steven Moffat was today named lead writer and executive producer on hit BBC1 drama Doctor Who [replacing] Russell T Davies." About time too. Here's hoping for less use of the Tardis as deus ex machina, then.
television  bbc  sciencefiction  uk  via:blackbeltjones 
may 2008 by blech
Stephen Fry - Some Thoughts | BBC
A (very nicely presented, albeit paged) transcript of a speech Stephen Fry gave on Wednesday about the future of the BBC and public service broadcasting more generally. Via speechification, but I get much more out of reading not hearing.
bbc  future  stephenfry  via:russelldavies  via:speechification 
may 2008 by blech
Dell aims to reclaim global lead | BBC News
"Michael Dell has said his firm can regain its spot as the world's number one PC maker by switching its focus to consumers" Er, right. Good luck with that. Interesting behind the scenes sidebar blog post from Rory Cellan-Jones too.
dell  computing  computer  economics  bbc 
april 2008 by blech
'Beeb' creators reunite at museum | BBC News
"Hermann Hauser and Steve Furber, who worked at Acorn, will be joined by former BBC staff John Radcliffe and David Allen" "The Science Museum plans an exhibition about the BBC Micro and its legacy in 2009"
bbc  news  computing  history  modelb  sciencemuseum 
march 2008 by blech
Hideously middle-class | New Statesman
On BBC Two's White Season: "The BBC has made a grave error in locating the problems of Britain's poorest and most pressurised people in race rather than class." Sounds about right to me.
bbc  britain  media  politics  journalism  race  television  class  via:g 
march 2008 by blech
Writer Arthur C Clarke dies at 90 | BBC NEWS
I've heard his writing described as being like a technical manual, but I never thought there was much wrong with that. So long, and thanks for all the monoliths.
sciencefiction  news  bbc 
march 2008 by blech
White - Spectrum | BBC Two
A visualisation of comments to a BBC News Have Your Say debate on whether white people are ignored. The comments are sadly their usual incoherent mess, but it's pretty. Hurrah for Helvetica.
bbc  news  visualisation  graphics  data  comment  haveyoursay 
march 2008 by blech
New search powers lead Firefox 3 | BBC NEWS
A puff piece. ' Typing "cameras", for example, into the url bar, will bring up a list of the sites that the user recently visited that have cameras in their names' Welcome to IE for Mac 5, circa 1998. Sigh.
news  bbc  firefox  review  ie  mac 
february 2008 by blech
BBC Worldwide brings TV to UK iTunes Store | TUAW
"shows will be available to download and buy 8 days after broadcast" so you can get them free via iPlayer for seven days, then cough up for an archival copy. Via different services, obviously.
apple  bbc  itunes  itms  tv  download 
february 2008 by blech
Nokia aiming to banish paper maps | BBC News
Slightly overblown headline for a grab-bag of stories from 3GSM, including Nokia's maps for pedestrians (rather than just drivers) to tie in to their increasing shipping of (A)GPS capabilities.
news  bbc  nokia  location  maps  mobile 
february 2008 by blech
Microsoft wants to purchase Yahoo | BBC News
Speaking of Yahoo, it's hard to see how they're going to be able to refuse a 62% premium, even if the cash part of the offer doesn't quite cover the current valuation.
yahoo  microsoft  business  news  bbc 
february 2008 by blech
Things We Forgot to Remember | BBC Radio 4
A nice programme about Trafalgar from Radio 4 (despite being hosted by Michael Portillo, but then he seems much nicer nowadays). The Spanish apparently came off very badly, but nobody knows.
bbc  radio  programme  speechification 
january 2008 by blech
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