Charlie Brooker: The Sun needs to reinvent itself – less bullying, more of the zany fun of Twitter
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The paper called me 'a shouty third-rate TV presenter', which seems firm but fairSo then, witch-hunted tip-top soaraway tabloid the Sun will soon be available in a sizzling Sunday edition. Turns out the soothsayers were mistaken: the Sun isn't dying, it's expanding. Which, ironically, is precisely what an actual sun...
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Health and safety, eh? Eh? Health and safety! Health! And! Safety! Eh? | Charlie Brooker
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What's the problem with it? A future filled with plastic firearms-on-demand doesn't sound too rosy to meI haven't actually seen The Wright Way, Ben Elton's latest sitcom, but I've sensed the waves of negative feedback it's generated, in much the same way Obi Wan Kenobi felt a great disturbance in the...
YouTube UK: 20 of Britain's most popular online video bloggers
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From the creators of the Tyler Lautner six-pack workout and sunny pop promos to a cheerful consumer of roadkill1 NINEBRASSMONKEYS BENJAMIN COOKStats 106,000 subscribers, 1.7m viewsWho is he? The 30-year-old Cook only posted his first YouTube video on his Ninebrassmonkeys channel in December last year, but his multi-part documentary series,...
Why death is not the end of your social media life
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Services such as LivesOn and DeadSocial plan to keep your friends and family updated on your Twitter and Facebook pages, even after you have passed awayForget Ouija boards. If you want to communicate with the dead these days, all you need is Twitter. Much like last week's episode of Charlie...
Charlie Brooker answers your questions: 'I get angry to amuse myself'
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What's the worst TV programme ever made? What's going on with your hair? And what do you think of Guardian commenters? Charlie Brooker answers your questions. GrudginglyWhat's up with your hair? @OnAgathasBehalf People go on about it as if some big makeover decision was taken or that I looked through...
Justin Bieber: Teen pop idols never die. They're gradually unfollowed | Charlie Brooker
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After a bumpy start to the year, the rapidly ageing teenywink singing sensation stands at a crossroads in his careerBecause I'm no longer 13 years old, I haven't really paid much attention to teenywink Canadian singing sensation Justin Bieber since he was first hammered into the collective unconscious like a...
Matthew Woods deserves support as much as airport tweeter Paul Chambers | Charlie Skelton
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Woods's jokes about April Jones may have been offensive - and frankly baffling - but the mob logic behind his jailing is scaryThere was dismay this week in the 8 Out of 10 Cats writing room. Usually, when a bunch of TV writers express genuine, heartfelt horror it's because a...
Charlie Brooker: Reports of the Dandy's death are greatly exaggerated
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Going all-digital is the best thing that could happen to Britain's longest-running comicSo the Dandy, Britain's longest-running comic, is to set to become an online-only operation as of this December. This news was greeted with a small chorus of dismay from people who presumably haven't read the thing in decades,...
Watch this: 'Sight,' an incredible vision of an AR-obsessed future
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With Google Glass just two years away from bringing wearable computing to the mainstream, Sight takes the promise of augmented reality down a decidedly dystopian path. Produced by a group of Israeli students, the seven minute short film follows one man through a typical day in a future where...
Media Talk podcast: Charlie Brooker's A Touch of Cloth
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On this week's Media Talk, John Plunkett is joined by Vicky Frost and Neil Henderson to discuss Charlie Brooker's new comedy drama A Touch of Cloth on Sky 1 and Dan Sabbagh discusses who earns what from the BBC's annual report.Plus, Marissa Mayer attempts to steer a new course for...
Wearable technology: a vision of the future?
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Intelligent ski goggles, glasses that film what you see - it's the next wave of technology. And pretty soon you'll be wearing itNot so long ago I was skiiing down a slope in France, wearing a pair of ski goggles which, when I looked down and to my right, showed...
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