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If I'm honest, I spent some of the early part of 'The Family of Blood' not being that impressed. But then I realised...it's deliberate that John Smith was being so hopeless. Like Martha said, he's rubbish as a human. Like the Family said, 'human' and 'idiot' are the same thing, aren't they? I basically spent the second half in tears, even when I was also laughing. Best Who ever? Well, best TV Who ever, possibly. Joint with 'The Doctor Dances', maybe.

Good Stay Beautiful also, even if the buses on the way over were diverted (which is acceptable) and lying about the extent of the diversion on the shelters (which is not). Those fibre-optic countdowns - there is no excuse, ever, for them to say buses are coming to a stop when they are not. And whoever set up the system such that they do should have their own severed head announcing the truth at bus stops instead. Anyway, got there in the end, and was still sufficiently buzzing from Who not to have been put in a bad mood by it. Though I do wonder if I should go back to the Wicked model of straight-edging SB, as a night which doesn't need alcohol to get the appropriate...shimmer.

"Truth about Kyoto: huge profits, little carbon saved". Corruption in UN and EU projects? Well there's a surprise.

If only any goth clubs had £50 million to spare, Damien Hirst's diamond-encrusted platinum skull would surely be the best discoball ever.
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Why do I persist in giving each sorry reanimation of the Manics cadaver a try? I suppose this time I have the excuse that JDB's solo album was pretty good (even if that was precisely through its distance from the Manics template), and Nicky's live show amusing in its way. But 'Your Love Alone Is Not Enough'...for all that the 'back to what they do best' talk is even more desperately emphatic than usual this time around, this single is clearly Simple Minds covering 'Help'. It is, quite simply, a disgrace. Please, chaps - stop while we can still just about remember that you meant something once.

Full details on the Parkland Walk plans here - I found the URL on a discarded letter beside the Walk, so clearly it's letting me know not to worry. They seem both sensitive and sensible; I'm just a little miffed that I've never been privileged to see any of the slow-worms which apparently live along one stretch.

I know there's been a bit of a retro crime revival recently - witness all those neo-mediaevalist protests about 'blasphemy' last year - but I was still surprised and almost touched to receive a European lottery scam by post. How delightfully old-fashioned!

Right, so Mars is warming up alongside Earth - but for demonstrably Martian reasons, namely dust storms, rather than because the same solar activity is affecting both planets. Doesn't that seem slightly odd? Let's be quite clear, I'm not saying that human-culpable carbon dioxide et al aren't warming the Earth, because I'm not insane and/or in the pay of Big Oil. Nor do I have any reason to suppose that dust storms and consequent colour changes aren't warming Mars - it reminds me of Daisyworld, but that's no objection. It's more that if two adjacent planets are both warming up for totally separate reasons...well, that's the sort of thing which makes me wonder if something Big Picture is going on, like when two totally different characters published by the same comics company start being taken grim'n'gritty in separate ways by their writers.
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'Evolution of the Daleks' - that title sounds vaguely familiar, doesn't it? Period setting, the Daleks mucking about with Dalek factors for humans and human factors for Daleks, none of it ending well...yes, that was Evil of the Daleks, wasn't it? Except that on a basic level, at least the plot of Evil made some kind of sense. And as for the ending...PLEASE, NO MORE.
Next week's is written by the same chap as the Proclaimers musical, and features Martha's family. Hopes are not high.

"[Hewlett Packard] is starting to see the first fruits of its $1.4 billion investment in next-gen print technologies with the debut of its new Edgeline enterprise-class color printers. The new printers squirt special fast-drying inks out of dual stationary print heads that run the entire width of the page, a system that offers the color quality of traditional inkjets at laser-like speeds. But as with all good things, there's a catch -- the printers aren't being offered for sale. The Edgeline system is apparently so ink-efficient that HP can't sell the units at competitive prices and make up the difference on consumables sales like it does with its inkjet and laser products."
See also, everlasting lightbulbs, geothermal power, electric cars...it would be so lovely if just one big corporation would think to pay more than lip service to sustainability, never mind not gouging the customer for every penny they can get.

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