Archive for November, 2008

Satire is dead—just ask ITV

No wonder Chris Morris had trouble funding his upcoming Jihadi comedy (see Warp films for the latest—more positive—development)—satire, it seems, is dead. I recently moaned about the unbelievably stupid, over-the-top public reaction to Brand and Ross’s telephone prank, where tens of thousands of people who hadn’t witnessed the incident nonetheless complained, which has led to [...]

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Posted: November 21, 2008

By Craig Grannell in News, Television

Apple-branded apples

Tasty! I don’t often post Mac stuff on Revert to Saved, due to not wanting to cover the same ground I go over in MacFormat and on Cult of Mac. Now and again, though, something crops up that just demands a mention. Case in point: Apple-branded apples from a Japanese person calling themselvs Nobon. The [...]

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Posted: November 20, 2008

By Craig Grannell in Apple

Review: Kingdom: The Promised Land

It’s a dog’s life Every once in a while, 2000 AD serves up a new strip that manages to attain ‘classic’ status, despite the premise being fairly ordinary. On balance, perhaps it’s actually this ordinariness—with a typically 2000 AD twist applied, of course—that marks such a strip out for longevity, because it’s not trying too [...]

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Posted: November 17, 2008

By Craig Grannell in Graphic novels, Rated: 5/5, Reviews

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