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Don't Drink The Water has finally arrived, so expect review soon, or in other words when I've had a chance to watch it. In the meantime ...

  • UK cinema chains may boycott Burton's Alice in Wonderland. The operative word being "may". The cinemas will back down. They'll have to. The artificial four month gap is only really tenable for films which have a decent distribution and aren't yanked off the screen within a couple of weeks. http://ff.im/-fOcS2

  • Confused Facebook users think ReadWriteWeb is the new Facebook login page, and what's positively worry is the illiteracy with which they signal their dismay... http://ff.im/-fOcS0

  • Immigration whistleblowers: spot the difference. Tabloid newspapers have an agenda. http://ff.im/-fOcS1

  • Avatar, the French New Wave and the morality of deep-focus (in 3-D), in which Jim Emmerson notices how James Cameron hobbles the film visually by pointlessly recreating the limitations of celluloid even in the digital sequences. http://ff.im/-fOcRZ

  • Hello Kitty's Star Wars Is a Nightmarish Orgy of Horror and Insanity http://bit.ly/dzpSlu

  • a Concept for Reinventing MySpace http://ff.im/-fLm7h

  • Did karaoke versions of Sinatra's My Way provoke killings in the Philippines? http://ff.im/-fLhRr

  • If you have a spare £2.99 I can highly recommend 20/30/40, a beautiful generational hyperlink comedy drama from Taiwan. http://bit.ly/9lUSbP

  • Videogame Soundtracks on Spotify http://ff.im/-fJI1R

  • Interview: Peter Brook, in Paris and London http://ff.im/-fJAyu

  • The Doctor and Douglas, a new Radio 4 documentary coming soon. http://ff.im/-fJv7D

  • Didn't Love Actually show that you can't mix the classic genres with hyperlink narratives? Short Cuts isn't about that. http://bit.ly/9hJoOQ

  • David Dimbleby’s Seven Ages of Britain http://ff.im/-fHPqC

  • There's no place like Dome -- visiting the undeveloped parts of the site. http://ff.im/-fHM3Z

  • Want to own your very own Dr Who Cyberman? http://ff.im/-fHLje

  • Henry And The Giant Harp http://ff.im/-fHJFC

  • Henry & The Giant Harp, part two http://ff.im/-fHJFD

  • Wild Horses: We'll Ride Them Someday http://ff.im/-fHIML

  • Tribute to Ianto Jones. Memorial shrine at the real entrance to Torchwood: http://bit.ly/ibYyh

  • Publicy http://ff.im/-fHAnU

  • Not watching The Wire can cause trouble http://ff.im/-fHyCX

  • 10 Companions Younger Than Karen Gillan (not to mention John and Gillian): http://bit.ly/9YS75B

  • This Guardian front page piece about BBC expenses reads like a deliberate parody of an anti-BBC Daily Mail article. At no point does it notice that the reason they're hiring the limousine is to make a good impression in front of people for whom such things are standard. Like buying a good suit for an interview. http://bit.ly/bF7aky

  • Eve Myles Interview Exclusive! http://ff.im/-fFPAE

  • #spotify Sade's new album's about what you'd expect, but track 2 conjures up images of Will Smith & a big robot spider: http://bit.ly/99v1IT

  • The V&A is Wrong about closing its instruments section http://ff.im/-fDO1b

  • Innuendo [and out the other] http://ff.im/-fDLH0
  • Pink Floyd and Carly Firorina Because Yes Please! http://ff.im/-fDFol

  • How the Letterman-Oprah-Leno Super Bowl Ad Came Together: http://nyti.ms/9VWsZX

  • Republicans Sure Do Have Opinions http://ff.im/-fCif9

  • The challenges of filming the Virtual Revolution http://ff.im/-fBy5x

  • More from the TV Cream Songbook http://ff.im/-fBu8N

  • Daily Star watch the Kick-Ass trailer, pretend it’s newsworthy http://ff.im/-fB88R

  • They're playing our show http://ff.im/-fyX0c

  • B7 Media's Blakes 7 audio dramas are now available on Spotify: http://bit.ly/cPsV6V (via @afront)

  • Bulk http://ff.im/-fyMSh

  • Sarah Palin Logic: Teleprompters Are Bad, But Writing Notes On Your Hand Is A-OK [Notable/quotable] http://ff.im/-fyivr

  • The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus dvd details. Commentary! http://bit.ly/bRs8jg

  • Alastair Campbell – signs of (di)stress? http://ff.im/-fy7cW

  • Life is but a holographic projection http://ff.im/-fxYQ7

  • 10 Unbelievable Inheritance Stories http://ff.im/-fxTYh

  • Is it too late to save the Cultural Olympiad? http://ff.im/-fxJP8

  • Editorial: President Proposes Bold New Approach to Exploring the Final Frontier http://ff.im/-fxICu

  • Giraffe Needed http://ff.im/-fxG6h

  • White Outs and Brown Outs http://ff.im/-fxDpx

  • Emily Mortimer: "Sometimes I think this is so undignified" http://ff.im/-fxA03

  • Sight and Sound Magazine's flickr stream has new and classic covers: http://bit.ly/acfDvN
  • Ian Carmichael obituary http://ff.im/-fxjZv

  • DVD Goes To The Theatre. Useful experiment in which a theatre company produces their own live dvd production for release after the live show has ended http://ff.im/-fxiqB

  • Is Supernatural really this good? Better than Dr Who & T-wood.? I think I may have miscalculated in not watching it ... (of course it's just that the Who fan vote was split between two different series which wasn't a problem with the first two series of Touchwoudn't) http://bit.ly/cxaNbg

  • Learn Japanese From A to Zen. Naoko Mori on her written language legacy http://ff.im/-fvaL8

  • Julia Somerville, Fiona Armstrong at BBC http://ff.im/-fuZB8

  • Playing the 'I Don't Deserve This' Card. The Wrap on how actors try and deflect the attention from themselves at award ceremonies http://ff.im/-fuS3h

  • Groundhog Day. Punxsutawney on Google Street Map http://ff.im/-fuPZU

  • Jon Stewart out thinking Bill O'Reilly on The O'Reilly Factor. http://bit.ly/aIRQo2

  • Torchwood Range Rover up for auction along with what looks like the contents of the various exhibitions from across the country http://ff.im/-fsZRu
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