one.point.zero - Colin O'Brien's weblog
June 25 2007
Prankster hacks Czech TV weathercam feed
May 03 2007
They’ve already got the iphone on Lost.
January 16 2007
Neal Stephenson is getting the TV treatment, I hope he’s more lucky than William Gibson. The Diamond Age is a fantastic novel and doesn’t deserve to be defaced on screen.
January 04 2007
Loads of old Belgian television archives viewable online, from Expo 58 reports to interviews with celebrities.
December 19 2006
A few bits of classic British comedy tracked down on Youtube: Not the Nine O’clock News featuring Gerald the Gorilla, Spike Milligan’s Life on Earth, and more Spike Milligan with the memorable Daleks sketch.
November 15 2006
Hollywood is the second largest polluter in the Los Angeles area. The full report is online. (thanks Dimitri)
November 09 2006
Kids amped out on 25 frames per second“psychologists discovered that children aged 6 to 8 respond to the image of a television as alcoholics do to pictures of drink”
October 31 2006
What’s Wrong With Blasphemy? A 4-part TV programme by Stewart Lee, co-writer of Jerry Springer the Opera, which examines religions’ increasing use of offendedness as a weapon for censorship.
September 21 2006
The V&A’s latest exhibition site features a great sixties TV documentary on the swinging London fashion scene.
August 18 2006
August 14 2006
That’s impressive: if half of British homes buy a plasma-screen TV, two nuclear power stations would have to be built to meet the extra energy demand.
August 06 2006
In other news, armageddon is upon us…
July 18 2006
Hold on to that cathode ray tube TV a bit longer if you can.
July 13 2006
Vintage French TV report on raves from 1994, with some hilarious quotes and comments in there.
July 03 2006
A dashboard widget for Lost fans. You too can be a Dharma initiative test subject.
June 27 2006
Do you remember watching La Linea as a kid? (The video format may be a bit dodgy on mac, you’ll have to get the URL from the source)
June 11 2006
Take all those cheesy Japanese TV series featuring crash helmets, coloured tights and rubber monsters. Move them to France, into the hands of enthusiastic amateurs and you get France Five, defending the Eiffel tower and camembert from the forces of evil.
May 21 2006
It’s amazing what lengths some lobbyists will go to. Take a look at these American TV ads downplaying climate change and calling CO2 “life”.