Tuesday 6 July 2010

TV

Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne
Part 1 (of 3)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

How I Met Your Mother
5x06 Bagpipes
[Watch it (again) on 4oD.]

Articles

Back To The Future 'hoax' - we confess! by Dan Goodswen
(from Total Film)
Total Film 'Future Day' shenanigans cause Twitter chaos
Ha!

International Number Ones: Because every country is best at something by David McCandless
(from Information is Beautiful)
And we're best for... CCTV. Typical.
(It falls down slightly because not every country has a label.)

Review of Inception by Nev Pierce
(from Empire)
If you didn't think the excitement/anticipation levels for Inception could be ratcheted any higher... well, Empire's review may surprise you. (In a good way.)

Some overused Doctor Who plot devices we'd like a moratorium on by Charlie Jane Anders
(from io9)
Some of these are stretching things a bit -- they've only been used twice, for example, and it's only because they're so good that we've even noticed -- but Anders also has a point about many of them.