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Bad geek Dec 05

Via Thinking Aloud, theguardian’s best geek novels since 1932. I won’t be highlighting those I’ve read because that would be, um, one.

Practical joke Dec 01

I’m not a grinch, a party-pooper or a spoilsport. But please let someone on Space Cadets have sufficient nous to spot very quickly that it’s a con and expose it for the mean-spirited, unfunny, egregious show it will be. Because despite being mean-spirited, unfunny and egregious, its worst crime is providing another vehicle for Johnny Vaughan to be on TV.

At the end of the first episode, someone should reveal to him that it’s a big practical joke. Of course they didn’t spend £5m on such a stupid idea, and of course they didn’t employ him to front it.

And then everyone laughs in his face.

Diary of a fat body Nov 30

As I boarded an aeroplane on Monday night, one of the cabin crew asked me to move farther down the aircraft.

To spread the load.

Lost Nov 24

As I was setting the video for Lost on E4 last night, I noticed the episode description on the Electronic Programme Guide was somewhat more flippant than usual…

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