( Torchwood 1.8 - They Keep Killing Suzie )

I think the BBC have gone a bit mad with their schedules this year. Over Christmas and New Year, we're getting the Doctor Who Christmas special, and the final three episodes of Torchwood Season 1. As well as that, we get Dracula, and that's just for starters...

( Some Press Office blurb )

A belated Happy Birthday to halle for yesterday, and a very Happy Birthday today to biascut!

Y'know, until watching QI tonight on BBC four, I never realised just how much of a geek Jonathan Ross is.

I saw a comment on my friends list just now (thanks, alteredmissives) and wondered how on earth I'd missed the fact that Neil Patrick Harris had come out. Then I looked, and it was only just today, so I didn't feel quite so unobservant. Still, wow, and hurrah for someone else being one to say "yes I am, so what?"

"The public eye has always been kind to me, and ( Read more... )

Okay, now I know I adore Torchwood.

( 1.3 - The Ghost Machine )

Well it's still Friday, just, and I'm going to need to be amused tomorrow at work... so I'm joining in with the anonymous commenting requests - entertain me please people! Assuming of course that you haven't given all your scandal away to yiskah, glitzfrau and leedy - you're an enterprising bunch, I'm sure you can come up with something :-)

I'm amused by this story, and also slightly astonished at the same time. Has nobody in the government or the Home Office heard of urban myths? Oh, and aren't places usually on pretty high security on Armistice day anyway?

Very, very odd.

Gah, this is insane. It's a perfectly reasonable request from BA, and from any other organisations like them, that people in a public facing role should wear a uniform as instructed and not display necklaces or the like. These people who are now complaining about it signed up to the job, and presumably haven't argued the dress code in the past. It ( Read more... )

This is interesting. Someone in the BBC decided to take to the streets with scales and test a few random people to see how they fitted in with the body mass index. It's interesting to me because the BMI is a strange measurement in many ways, and the government keep quoting it as a guideline when talking about obesity, yet it's actually a lot more ( Read more... )