The Edinburgh Fringe – Too Pricey?

[Cross post from The Edinburgh Fringe Podcast site]. Ten years ago, when I was a mere slip of a lad at Edinburgh University, I could slip ten pounds into my pocket, go out and see three or four fringe shows, buy a beer, and be back home before midnight. Those nights I would see one [...]

Alfie Dennen and We’re Not Afraid.

Super quick update for those of you reading in the UK at this time of night. The BBC is airing a documentary on Alfie Dennen’s We’re Not Afraid website tonight. Tune in or set the videos if you can.

TPn Rock #20, Loud and Proud on your MP3 Player

If you’ve not caught my Rock Show TPN Rock on The Podcast Network then this week’s Show #20 is a great place to start. It’s a look back through the back catalouge of shows from #11-#19 and I choose the best bands and performers and invite them back for a second show. So these are [...]

I’ll Buy Anything With An i At The Start

I… must… buy… a… £35… mouse. And it’s not even cordless! Steve Jobs must be taking lessons from Jerry Sadowitz, because the sleight of hand that he’s pulled off with the Mighty Mouse (isn’t that a cartoon chartacter trademark?) is nothing short of religious. There’s blog coverage all over the world, you’ve got people taking [...]

Planes, Ravines and What To Do in a Crash

A couple of points about the airline crash in Canada yesterday. Congratulations must go out to the Airbus designers – the current regualtions for aircraft are that every passenger needs to be able to be evacuated from a plane within 90 seconds, using only half the doors. Yes you can test and test and test [...]

Links From Tuesday 2nd August, 2005

SaunanTakaa has a new episode. This time some of my English-language readers might also want to take tighter look (ear?) at it, as it contains a 16-minute interview of Ewan Spence, an all around cool guy, and the author of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival podcast. If you can’t be bothered to fast-forward all the dumb [...]

Links From Monday 1st August, 2005

Children’s Author Terry Pratchett is attempting to start a hissy fit with JK Rowling over Harry Potter as a Fantasy novel. Rowling has denied she started off thinking of it as fantasy. Pratchett’s reply? “I would have thought that the wizards, witches, trolls, unicorns, hidden worlds, jumping chocolate frogs, owl mail, magic food, ghosts, broomsticks [...]

The Edinburgh Fringe Podcast – An Experiment In New Media Reporting

You know how I tend to have about a million ideas a year, and only about one in ten of them are any good? I’m still trying to decide if the big August project is one of the one ten, or one of the other nine. One of things I missed about Edinburgh when I [...]

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