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I took the flashing scanner to be just doing it's scanning thing, with a final *ding* after the camera cuts away. For me the obvious assumption to be taken is the Doctor knows but no one else does. Interesting episode over all - I felt like starting well away from the final scene in the first part was a bit of a cop out but I loved the whole business with tallying & recorders. The conversation between the Doctor and Roary about Rome was sort of curious, seemed like it was foreshadowing something. I also loved the final scene between Canton & Nixon - seemed like a thumb in the eye given some recent events in the States, Prop 8 and all that.

There was a wedding? Why was I not informed of this?

Love the picture up top. Happy Birthday Aimless!

I spent most of my youth in some sort of fugue from about P3 until leaving after my fifth year of secondary. Was bullied for most of it (mostly homophobic bullying for some reason), a problem which eventually followed me through four different schools. Finally overcame that, got a good year and a a bit where everything seemed to go well, then something clicked in my brain during my 5th year and I started to struggle very badly at all my school work including subjects I usually breezed. Finished every day feeling totally and mentally destroyed. Almost did a 6th year but mercifully my mother enrolled me in the local college instead and ended up studying acting for two years - just what I needed. Then finally found "my people" during my writing degree. I remember being told in secondary school these were the best years of life and thinking that, if that were really the case, I may as well find a ditch to go die in. Luckily they fucking lied to me. My life has been progressively improving since, sometimes day-on-day. I'm not exactly orbiting in the stratosphere (yet) but situation improving steadily, force 6, rising.

Lord love you Coolness. Never change. Thanks to everyone else too, y'all my besht mate you are. :p

That was awesome - it starts out with something crazy, and you think you know where it's going, and it does - but in a manner you didn't expect, leaving you in an impossible place while doing so. Roll on part 2!

Good grief, I'd forgotten I had Facebook page. Now just open wide - *throws long*

Daaaw, you all really do love me. Why I... wait, what? Why you soneofa *thrashes inconsequentially*

It was my birthday today, not that any of you seem to care. Nah, we're cool. T'was good. Cake, checks, good family times. Also, not raining for once. Loverly. Bastardsi'veonlybeenheresixyearandallIgetisthisortatreatmentwhyiaughta...

Whooo! Equaliser in the 88th, winner in the 91st, great opening match!

Looks and sounds stupefyingly stupendous, carrying on the franchise's whole purpose - GTA but without one single shit to give.

Just hope and pray to every god you know that nothing ever comes of it. Here, wash the taste out with this little beauty -

Rumour: Formula One subject of takeover talks by Rupert Murdoch and Carlos Slim

Holy crap, what an incredible race. Shanghai is an OK circuit but this was a brilliant thriller, no rain required. The story was 2 stop v 3 stop and it went all the way to the wire, the front 6 all well within sight of each other and the rest not far behind that. I spent the last twenty laps sliding further and further to the edge of my seat. Action up and down the field - Webber scything his way up, Schumacher dinging back and forward with Alonso, Rosberg and Massa jostling in amongst the race long battle between Button-Hamilton-Vettel, the rest of the field clawing at each other for every position trying to get the last few points. Brilliance up and down. Going to be a looooong wait until Turkey. Bring it on! Edit:

Had a hard week? Treat yourself to this time lapse video by photographer Terje Sorgjerd, filmed on and around El Teide, the tallest mountain in Spain. If there is such a thing as nature porn then this is Mother Nature at her absolute sluttiest. Go check out the proper version of this and other awesome videos at his Vimeo page - http://vimeo.com/terjes If anyone needs me I'll be in the corner dribbling rainbows.

We've got a long way to go - the Red Bull obviously isn't bullet proof and one mistake and Vettel will be swallowed up by the rest of the field. Problem is he's yet to make one.

Found a garbled nonsensical message on my phone this morning. Then I came here.

The Guardian have a clip from the new Senna documentary - only a minute and a half long but it gives a good taste of what to look forward to. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/video/2011/apr/15/ayrton-senna-documentary-clip-video

I watched the whole thing, mouth hanging open, moments from it burned into my mind forever. They spent a lot of time on reaction from the crowd. "I've never seen anything like this" said a cop on patrol in the grandstand as they chanted for a refund. Thank you to the remarkably high number of viewers who have decided to stick with us" murmured a perpetually apologetic James Allen. "Somewhere on the other side of the country are 30-plus stock cars getting around without any problems at all" said a glum Martin Brundle after the race. I remember people throwing water bottles onto the track in disgust. Bizarrely, Schumacher managed to almost wipe out against Barrichello coming out of the pits. I wish they had just to put the final cherry atop a heaving shit sundae. Anyway, enough of all that, here's animé Kimi Raikkonen with a kitten.

This cropped up on my Tumblr. I still remember this vividly. I wish I didn't. Edit: Oh wow.

Preposterous PR video ahoy!

Oddly enough this also just cropped up on my Youtube page, envisioning a post-apocalyptic future where F1 is a lazer spewing death sport including all-robot teams. It's like somebody's been looking at Bernie's notepad.

Glad you enjoyed it Dyson! F1 is a near-impossible sport to get someone in to - in order to enjoy you do need a reasonable understanding of the strategies and technical tools (DRS, KERS, prime/options etc.) and by the time you do you're half way to being a fully accredited engineer. Trying to introduce it to a newbie is like teaching someone to swim by throwing them into the deep end of a swimming pool full of custard and sharks. I tried to explain it to my 'bro martinist by comparing KERS to a Mario Kart mushroom and DRS to a boost pad. He said he might actually be starting to enjoy it, which is like revealing to me he has a pet unicorn called Ned. Hey that's an idea - they should invent clear ways of explaining what each car is doing. Like when a driver activates his DRS his car should start flashing colours of every spectrum and blaring a jaunty jingle as he chases down his opponent.

I do respect a man who exists in three physical dimensions. Happy Birthday!