Much like Tetris or Grand Theft Auto, if you get deep enough into a 24 DVD marathon, your brain starts to interpret the whole world around you in the language of the show. You're sitting on the tube, you check your watch: beep, boop, beep 8:51:34 8:51:35 8:51:36 Your world folds into a box and compresses into a corner of the screen. Your empty desk, awaiting you at work, pops in below. Your ...

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My brother has a Yuletide tradition of playing It's a Wonderful Life over and over throughout the Christmas season, so I went to never having seen it before to being quite the expert on the whole thing. If you haven't seen it (and really, you should), it's the ultimate American Christmas movie. It's a kind-of retelling of the ultimate British Christmas story A Christmas Carol, in that they both pl ...

Check this story out- it's about 'Asbo TV'- residents of shoreditch may soon have the ability to 'tune in' to the local CCTV cameras to scope them out and report any crime-making they see. ?The CCTV element is part curiosity, like a 21st-century version of Big Brother? said Atul Hatwell, of the Shoreditch Digital Bridge project. Uhm, you said it, pal. Orwellian or Channel Fourlian? The creepy th ...