Did you know you can go to rehab for internet addiction? It’s such a huge part of our lives that it’s easy for casual browsing and casual social media use to turn into a serious compulsion. We’re now a nation of people who have to share everything - from our latest relationship updates to what … [Read more...]
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Panning for Internet Gold: The ‘You may now marry Tony Stark’ edition
In this series, I'll be bringing you all the best bits from this week on the coal face of the internet. Join me in my adventures in procrastination. Mama we're all married now President Obama, in a break from making glorious faces while reading Where The Wild Things Are to some disgustingly lucky … [Read more...]
Bleak Old Shop of Stuff, Outnumbered and Downton Abbey: What We’ve Been Watching
It's Boxing Day, and that means we're just about halfway through the Radio Times double issue - a good time, then, to take a look back over What We've Been Watching during this first Christmas week... … [Read more...]
Horrible Histories and King Of…: What We’ve Been Watching
When Horrible Histories beat the truly excellent third series of Armstrong and Miller to the Best Sketch Show gong at the Comedy Awards last year, I was a bit miffed. Surely people were just being nice because it happened to be a bit better than your average kids' show? Nope. Turns out it's just … [Read more...]
Frackulous: Scott Pilgrim app fix, Samsung Galaxy Android-brillity and Angry, Angry Birds
Where else can you get a show to hook you up with both time-wasting and time-saving apps? Scott Pilgrim and canada cialis no prescription Stephen Fry-related apps? A review of possibly the best Android phone available right now? Nowhere. We don't think. Watch on for a bumper omnibus edition of … [Read more...]
Stepping into Wonderland
Let's get the truth out there first: Alice in Wonderland is indeed wonderful, unless you're expecting a Tim Burton film. If you're a die-hard Burton fan waiting for a warped, gothic version of Lewis Carroll's immortal story, you might leave the cinema with a bitter taste in your … [Read more...]
Why journalists should stop writing about Twitter
Twitter is never far from a journalist's lips these days. If they're not complaining about the threat of citizen journalism and the death of proper writing, they're extolling Twitter's virtues (or whining that they just don't get what all the fuss is about). It's not hard for me to work out why. … [Read more...]