links for 2008-01-18

"I would have liked to see more sustained questions about the Corporation throwing money at platforms, channels and programming that painfully attempt to reach out to certain demographics with little or no obvious success - yes, BBC3 - what are you for?"

"We also know that what the BBC offers young people has sometimes been the object of harsh criticism - not always well-informed, and sometimes voiced by commentators well past their own first flush of youth". Said the old man in the suit ;-)

"From a British viewpoint, where the EU is often derided as irrelevant or worse, it is easy to miss the fact that for many in Eastern Europe, membership is seen as a badge of modernity, a guarantor of democracy, the rule of law, and a path to prosperity".

"The fee isn't a tax because you can opt out by not owning a TV. Still, friends who live without TV report that the detection people react with aggressive incredulity to the claim there isn't a TV in the house". Are you watching Big Brother in there?

"While many bloggers have ideas for new blogs, they're discouraged when they think back to how tough it was to build something from nothing. I've learned that you can use the many hours of work on your first blog to make growing your second much easier".

"An atomic scale version of Pac-Man could help gobble up nuclear waste. The newly discovered uranium compound has a shape which resembles a Pac Man, with a uranium atom in its jaws". And I thought they were just putting it in the title to make me read...

"In a maze of windowless labs, engineers have beavered away on some of the biggest milestones in broadcasting. DAB, Teletext, Nicam, Freeview, the 'red button' - you might expect developments like these to have come out of Tokyo or Silicon Valley".

Amazing couple of sunset shots over Rhodes