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OK, Primeval is not great - but it is well-researched: most of the monsters in the show are not known prehistoric creatures, for example, which makes sense given the long gaps in t…

Recent movies filmed on digital video have the problem that the exposure time is much less than the frame gap. So action scenes look like flick-books. Gladiator had this issue, as …

I can't speak for Canadian TV but primetime British dramas are generally technically excellent - for instance, this year's Oscar winner for Best Director, Tom Hooper, has directed …

I've long believed that a civilization's natural, or sensible power structure reflects two things: the communications technology available, and the size of the economic/political s…

The place for this would probably be ratemystartup.com (yes, it exists, no it's not my site)

I used to guzzle milk until I realized the calorific content of what I was chugging. But Tea with milk gives you caffeine, antioxidants and calcium, and hydrates you quite well acc…

I wrote a system that generates C++ reflection from the export table (Windows only so far). Any class that is exported can be reflected, then functions and members can be gotten by…