Terry Pratchett

Sky’s Hogfather arrives on DVD. Those folk over at Forbidden Planet have a signing with both Terry Pratchett and Jean Vadim on April 23rd in the evening between 6 and 7.
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Pulitzer takes a hike down the Road

Cormac McCarthy’s The Road has won the Pulitzer prize in a story from the Guardian. A dystopian novel leavened by some wonderful prose, it got Clute all hot and bothered when it didn’t appear on the Clarke award shortlist (a slight problem of it not being submitted scuppered its chances).
I wonder how much prizes like [...]

BBC archive test run

An article on the BBC says that the corporation is to run a trial on releasing its archive with a view, one hopes, to releasing the whole archive to everybody via Freeview or IPTV.
In my wilder dreams, I hope that the BBC will allow free access to all so that users can either download or [...]