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The Invisibles

http://www.lileks.com/institute/interiors/
Interior Desecrations

http://heritage.scotsman.com/myths.cfm?id=1016562006
Wizard laird's dance with the devil

http://community.livejournal.com/rightclickdrool/248670.html?style=mine#cutid1
Men in uniform

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1819334,00.html
Lawyers briefed in battle for Tarzan loincloth

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/16/arts/television/16stei.html?th&emc=th
‘Law & Order’ Meets the Law of Supply and Demand

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/14/opinion/14yoshino.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
Too Good for Marriage

http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Critic_Review/Observer_Film_of_the_week/0,,1821361,00.html
Superman Returns

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1813835,00.html
Out with the 'old guys' as Academy woos Ledger and Gyllenhaal

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/07/16/1152988413913.html?from=top5
Woks flicked in water blitz

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/british-school-pupils-to-be-fingerprinted/2006/07/16/1152988415128.html
British school pupils to be fingerprinted

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2261943,00.html
Fertility experts urge end to ‘selfish’ late motherhood

http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/2006/07/13/1152637806773.html
Men must stop using the brolly as a weapon of war

http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/parramatta-river-gunk-spill-paintlike/2006/07/17/1152988450852.html
Parramatta River gunk spill 'paint-like'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki
Loki

http://www.theage.com.au/news/wireless--broadband/youtube-serves-up-100m-videos-a-day/2006/07/17/1152988452888.html
YouTube serves up 100 million videos a day

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19756657-16947,00.html
Six feet and under

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19780075-16947,00.html
Living the clash of civilisations

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19783102-16947,00.html
Thrill at find of Shelley poem

http://www.theage.com.au/news/tv--radio/downloads-havent-killed-the-video-star/2006/07/12/1152383751700.html
Downloads haven't killed the video star

http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,,1822342,00.html
Bristol to honour Wallace and Gromit with statue

http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,,1818913,00.html
Davies makes drama out of reality TV crisis

http://theavengers.tv/forever/peel1-3.htm
Cybernauts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Purple
Alvin Purple

http://slashden.com/pros/cricket/backseat1.mov
Bodie

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5180924.stm
Charcoal reveals wildfire history

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/18/movies/18crit.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
Avast, Me Critics! Ye Kill the Fun: Critics and the Masses Disagree About Film Choices

http://society.guardian.co.uk/communities/story/0,,1823116,00.html
Concrete jumble

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5189898.stm
Detective novelist Spillane dies

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=18&ObjectID=10391685
Stranger danger and other terrors

http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/07/12/last-week-was-the-least-watched-week-ever/
Last week was the least-watched week... ever.

http://www.eonline.com/Gossip/Awful/Daily2006/060718.html
Snotty Surf's Up!

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2274299,00.html
Shoe rapist is trapped by sister’s DNA 20 years after serial attacks

http://www.wireimage.com/GalleryListing.asp?navtyp=gls===198077&Source=blml060711
Liverpool Summer Festival of Pop 06 - Simple Minds Concert

http://radar.smh.com.au/archives/2006/07/post_103.html
“I had one of these things only last July!”

http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,,1822750,00.html
More tossers on TV

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/BABF15
Last Tap Dance in Springfield

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/07/19/1153166455537.html?from=top5
Hollywood agrees to burning DVD issue

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2006/07/19/notes071906.DTL&nl=fix
Bush Gropes, Planet Cringes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5196362.stm
Tut's gem hints at space impact

http://tv.cream.org/lookin/playfortoday/playtoday3.htm
Play For Today

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1186995.ece
'West Wing' creator's follow-up is slated before its first episode

http://zvbxrpl.blogspot.com/2006/07/warning-to-canadian-briscovites.html
Warning to Canadian Briscovites

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19845620-7582,00.html
Networks face crisis as internet usage begins to bite hard

http://alligatorsinahelicopter.blogspot.com/
Memorable Scenes in Forgettable Movies

http://adsoftheworld.com/files/images/Scholl_Dead%20Bird.jpg
ad

http://www.smh.com.au/news/film/from-aussie-hulk-to-right-royal-bulk/2006/07/20/1153166517197.html
From Aussie Hulk to right royal bulk

http://www.smh.com.au/news/travel/the-quaint-isles-of-britain/2006/07/18/1153166356204.html
The quaint isles of Britain

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/07/20/1153166506556.html
Dream job for Simon Burke

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/tropes/
Tropes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_(virtual_reality)
Avatars

http://timescolumns.typepad.com/stothard/2006/07/we_held_it_.html#more
We held it

LIFE ON MARS

http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/sam_and_gene/
Sam and Gene

http://www.thestage.co.uk/tvtoday/2006/07/its_the_freakiest_show_life_on_mars_gets_freakier.php
It’s the freakiest show - but Life on Mars is about to
get freakier…

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v364/flip18/green%20genie/pg_tvtimes.jpg
Top of the Cops

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=37102
Simm Travels Time In Mars

http://dannystack.blogspot.com/2006/03/qa-ashley-pharoah.html
Q&A: Ashley Pharoah

http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/1102601/Life_On_Mars_Series_2/Product.html
Life On Mars: Series 2

http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/issues/ISArticle.asp?id=58208&issue=07172006
Alliance Atlantis 2006/2007 Programming Lineup (LOM)

http://www.channelcanada.com/Article1463.html
Alliance-Atlantis announces fall programming highlights for it's specialty channels (LOM)

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1153087815008&call_pageid=968867495754&col=969483191630
Crime wave sweeps fall

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=37102
Simm Travels Time In Mars

http://www.scifi.com/sfw/interviews/sfw13253.html
Mars attacks 1973 with a time-warped British police story that mixes Back to the Future and Starsky and Hutch

http://www.nowplayingmag.com/content/view/4217/58/
The stars of BBC America’s Life on Mars cross the pond (and head for the pool)

http://www.tv.com/life-on-mars/show/51334/cast.html?flag=2
Life on Mars

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars_(television)
Life on Mars

http://newsday.typepad.com/entertainment_tv_tour/2006/07/life_on_mars.html
Life on "Mars"

VERONICA MARS

http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/07/19/veronica-mars-creator-promises-a-cleaner-season/
Veronica Mars creator promises a "cleaner" season

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/tv/277977_tv19.html
Fall TV Preview: 'Veronica Mars' gears up for college and a new format

http://www.tv.com/story/story.html&story_id=5387?tag=topslot;action
CW premiere dates set

DOCTOR WHO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CtuzKmI7ng#GU5U2spHI_4
David Tennant

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/07/19/1153166390680.html
Going for the Doctor (Tennant)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/features/laurence_doctorwho.shtml
Retardis: Doctor Who and disability

PLATO

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symposium_(Plato)
Symposium (Plato)

http://condor.depaul.edu/~dsimpson/tlove/symposium.html
Symposium

WESTERNS

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/features/article1174206.ece
John Ford: Ford focus

http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,1819918,00.html
'A Fistful of Dollars? It's my worst ever score'

http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s1925west.html
The Spaghetti West

http://sergioleoneifr.blogspot.com/2005/06/gene-autrys-summer-of-sergio-leone.html
Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule

http://www.museumoftheamericanwest.org/explore/exhibits/leone/
Once Upon A Time In Italy

http://www.greencine.com/static/primers/westerns.jsp
Westerns

http://www.greencine.com/static/primers/samurai1.jsp
Samurai

http://www.greencine.com/article?action=view&articleID=70&pageID=138
A Man, a Blade, an Empty Road: Postwar Samurai Film to 1970

http://daily.greencine.com/archives/001316.html
Midnight Eye. Samurai.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/northerner/0,,751474,00.html
The Northerner

http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/articles/2005/07/28/buffalo_bill_salford_280705_feature.shtml
Tracking the Salford Sioux

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Noon
High Noon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yojimbo_(movie)
Yojimbo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Miller_%28comics%29
Frank Miller (comics)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deputy_Dawg
Deputy Dawg

THE INVISIBLES

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invisibles
The Invisibles

http://www.rotten.com/library/culture/the-invisibles/
The Invisibles

http://www.robertjpetersen.com/invisibles/
grant morrisons the invisibles

http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/dossier/id94/pg1/
The Invisibles

http://www.barbelith.com/bomb/
the bomb

PETER WYNGARDE

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~waynedavidson/jktvdept_s.htm
Jason King's Groovy Pad

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_S
Department S

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_King_%28television%29
Jason King (TV series)

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/512800/index.html
Department S (1969-70)

http://www.cultv.co.uk/jasonking.htm
Jason King

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0943936/
Peter Wyngarde

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Wyngarde
Peter Wyngarde

http://www.tv.com/peter-wyngarde/person/62843/summary.html
Peter Wyngarde

http://theavengers.tv/forever/pnote-wyngarde.htm
Peter Wyngarde

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~waynedavidson/jkhome.htm
Jason King

http://www.agamemnon.co.uk/departments.asp?js=active
Department S

http://www.tv.com/department-s/show/1194/summary.html
Department S

http://www.mutanthigh.com/teams/hellfire.html
Hellfire Club - Inner Circle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_%28Jason_Wyngarde%29
Mastermind (Jason Wyngarde)

http://www.uncannyxmen.net/db/issues/showquestion.asp?fldAuto=303
X-Men (1st series) #129

http://www.marveldirectory.com/teams/hellfireclub.htm
Hellfire Club

http://www.marveldatabase.com/wiki/index.php/Mastermind_(Jason_Wyngarde)
Mastermind (Jason Wyngarde)

http://www.marvel.com/universe/Hellfire_Club
Hellfire Club

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellfire_Club_(comics)
Hellfire Club

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellfire_Club
Hellfire Club

http://theavengers.tv/forever/peel1-21.htm
A TOUCH OF BRIMSTONE

THE SWEENEY

http://slashden.com/sweeney/placer.html
"I don't blame her guv, I fancy you myself, with that moustache."

http://community.livejournal.com/ship_manifesto/105687.html
We're the Sweeney son and we haven't had any dinner...

THE BULLSHITTERS

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/c/comicstrippresen_7771630.shtml
The Comic Strip Presents...

http://www.textfiles.com/media/EPISODES/comic_st.gui
The Comic Strip Presents Episode Guide

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bullshitters:_Roll_Out_The_Gunbarrel
The Bullshitters: Roll Out The Gunbarrel

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0544865/
Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown (1993)

http://www.missingimages.com/thesweeney/thefts/thefts.html
Thefts

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/b/bullshittersthe_7771040.shtml
The Bullshitters

HUGH JACKMAN

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,19811727-2902,00.html
Star in Jackman's eye

http://www.smh.com.au/news/film/jackman-plays-second-fiddle-to-wife/2006/07/16/1152988413470.html
Jackman plays second fiddle to wife

http://www.wireimage.com/GalleryListing.asp?navtyp=GLS====199725&c4nvi=3&str=1662&styp=clbi&nbc1=1
"Jindabyne" Sydney Premiere

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/07/21/1153166558380.html
Hugh's jeans get cashed in

SHIRTY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Late_Show_(Australian_TV_series)
The Late Show

http://www.champagnecomedy.com/sketches
Shirty, The Slightly Aggressive Bear

http://www.tandarra.com/thelateshow/shirty.htm
Shirty The Slightly Aggressive Bear

ELIJAH WOOD

http://www.wireimage.com/GalleryListing.asp?navtyp=GLS====200100&c4nvi=3&str=1247&styp=clbi&nbc1=1
2006 Giffoni International Children's Film Festival - Juror Dinner with Elijah Wood

http://www.wireimage.com/GalleryListing.asp?navtyp=gls===200054&Source=blml060717
2006 Giffoni International Children's Film Festival - Elijah Wood Arrives at Giffoni

http://www.wireimage.com/GalleryListing.asp?navtyp=gls===200104&Source=blml060717
2006 Giffoni International Children's Film Festival - Press Conference and Q&A with Elijah Wood

http://www.wireimage.com/GalleryListing.asp?navtyp=gls===200053&Source=blml060717
2006 Giffoni International Children's Film Festival - Elijah Wood Tribute

FRANZ

http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=1011072006
Franz stars to talk rock at Book Festival

http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=1034302006
Snack nearly spoiled my T says singer

http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=1008392006
Franz Ferdinand to rewrite script at book festival

DANTE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Divine_Comedy
The Divine Comedy

http://www.greatdante.net/
Dante on the Web

http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv
Dante's Inferno Test - Impurity, Sin... and Damnation

http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/dante/
The World of Dante

TWAIN

http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/yankee/cyhompg.html
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

http://www.geocities.com/swaisman/yankee.htm
A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/86
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Connecticut_Yankee_in_King_Arthur's_Court
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/yankee/summary.html
Overall Analysis

http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/TwaYank.html
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/connecticut/
ClassicNote on Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

CHUILDREN OF THE STONES

http://www.clivebanks.co.uk/ChildrenOTS%20Intro.htm
Children of The Stones

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075491/
"Children of the Stones" (1977)

http://www.action-tv.org.uk/guides/childrenstones.htm
Children Of The Stones

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_the_Stones
Children of the Stones

TIME TEAM

http://www.channel4.com/history/timeteam/
Time Team

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Team
Time Team

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW

http://www.bbc.co.uk/antiques/tv_and_radio/2006_locations.shtml
Antiques Roadshow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiques_Roadshow
Antiques Roadshow

BLACKADDER

http://www.blackadderhall.com/series/three.shtml
Blackadder

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/blackadder/
Blackadder

http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/8889/bladder3.htm
Sup's Blackadder III Page

http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/8889/bladder2.htm
Sup's Blackadder II Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackadder
Blackadder

http://www.blackadderhall.com/series/two.shtml
Blackadder II

http://www.mgnet.karoo.net/blackadder2.htm
Blackadder II (1986)

SPENDER

http://www.tv.com/spender/show/14434/summary.html
Spender

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spender
Spender

EUREKA

http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/07/19/eureka-pilot-series-premiere/
Eureka: Pilot (series premiere)

http://www.scifi.com/eureka/
Eureka

THE HISTORY MAN

http://www.action-tv.org.uk/guides/historyman.htm
The History Man

http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/about/CI/CP/the_edge/Issue1/historyman.aspx?ComponentId=1917&SourcePageId=6805
The History Man

http://experts.about.com/e/t/th/The_History_Man.htm
The History Man

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_Man
The History Man

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