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:: Friday, March 05, 2004 ::

League of Gentleman creators join a group of writers working on the new series of Doctor Who (ooh, look, it's Lalla!)
Full Cast and Crew for Doctor Who

David Hockney has said that "digital manipulation will kill off photography as an art form."
I don't agree. It's just a different art form to pure analogue photography. He argues that painting is now more true to life, but to me digital manipulation just makes photography more like painting. There is nothing to stop both art forms existing in their older forms as we see a new hybrid art form being created around the two. Enviably the older forms will be out of vogue for a while whilst people experiment with new techniques, but the original art of photography is not going to be lost.

Via Link Machine Go:
Mary White House Experience

Via Chicha:
Interview with Don LaFontaine, "father of the modern trailer."
(I like it in here!)

I've been resisting posting a rant about GM crops as I'm trying to keep an open mind about it and not get all reactionist. (Bear with me as I'm working from memory here.) A government report published last month found that during trials one particular GM crop, Maize had actually been beneficial to local wildlife rather than detrimental as neigh-sayers had suggested. However, it has emerged today that these findings were fatally flawed due to the use of a strong and soon to be banned pesticide on the non-GM Maize. To paraphrase a government announcement last month 'there is no-longer any public opposition to GM crops.' There is of course no way they can possibly know this as they still refuse to have an open public debate on the issue. It is now long overdue.

Bjorn Lomborg says "there is not enough money to solve all of the world's problems."

Animated map of how the UK's coal mines disappeared

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