Dirk Gently : BBC 4 Tonight. Based on the novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams.

It didn't take long tonight to realise the shortening of the title wasn't going to be the only change to this classic novel from the late Douglas Adams, the script adapted (sorry butchered) into a comic single threaded mystery story loosely based on a combination of Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 and Police Squad, with a predictable outcome. The plot left me amazed that anyone would...

10 months ago I bought the this LG TV with the promise ("Everyone" but LG) that BBC Iplayer would be a future feature, 10 months later with 1000's of customers posts on JoinFreesat.co.uk / DigitalSpy and AVforums with the threat by some to go to the media. LG has finally admitted some liability (albeit with care) with a "Gesture of Goodwill" buy sending its customers another Brands (Humax) Freesat HD receiver as compensation.

Today I got my free LG Supplied (well...

Since the weird rough pricing announcement at a quaint vintage computer show, I've read with interest the extreme strangeness of the uber geeks complaining "that its old tech and give me the X1000 for the price of a x86 mobo" and the endless comparisons to mass market products that are produced in vast numbers, with PR campaigns per Country costing 5 times the amount the X1000 costs to produce.

* Is there any real comparison we can legitimately make or is the uber geek right...

Over the past 25 years, I have been a Flee-market trader on and off for a good 20 of them, and although I am no innocent to the dodgy deal, the 2nd Hand Sellers terms used have "narked" me sometimes more than the long con of the biz in the first place.

Here are my list of top 6 quotes you will here and I will let you judge on the merit or demerit of each

5. Its cheap at half the price......Often a used when a seller doubts the buyer will buy the item and...

Here you go, the impossible situation of third hand toxic smokers residue has been touted as the next world evil for your kids, your health and its now bordering on ludicrousness scaremongering drivel that the anti-smoking lobby are trying to palm off as science.

God help those who partake of any known particulate based enjoyment, your days are sadly numbered if this utter trash science is ever legitimised as fact.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8503870.stm...