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EditStudio Pro 6 video editing software

Admin | Tuesday 1 April 2008

This software is impressive and only costs $89 (£44).

Mysteries of Manchester City Council: part one in a series of ten billion billion

Admin | Monday 31 March 2008

Tenants of Manchester City Council have a 13-digit tenancy reference number. Until recently this could be keyed into the City Council website to make a rent payment or taken along to the payments counter at the town hall. However this was obviously MUCH too easy for everybody.

Urban hipsters face repossession and negative equity

Admin | Tuesday 25 March 2008

As marketeers, estate agents and other vested interests continue to talk up property in Britain’s city centres, the reality begins to emerge in newspaper articles.

All the fun of the fleapit

Admin | Friday 14 March 2008

The golden age of the low-budget British B-movie, at The Guardian. Some of these used to pop up on ITV in the early hours a decade ago. Maybe we need a dedicated British B-movie TV channel?

Reclaim the Night march, Manchester

Admin | Saturday 8 March 2008

UPDATE (October 2008): due to controversy surrounding the actual motives behind the ‘queer trans bloc’, this video has ‘retired’ into the archives and I have withdrawn permission to show or distribute it. On a personal note, I filmed this event with the best of intentions: to report the march and record it for posterity. Original … Reclaim the Night march, Manchester

BBC Newsnight report on ‘bareback’ gay porn

Admin | Wednesday 5 March 2008

Tonight (Wednesday) the BBC’s Newsnight programme will feature a report about unsafe sex on gay porn shoots. This follows a recent scandal in the UK where several actors contracted HIV during a shoot.

Global warming has passed the tipping point, and catastrophe is unstoppable says James Lovelock

Admin | Saturday 1 March 2008

Climate science maverick James Lovelock believes catastrophe is inevitable.

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