The Observer had a feature today on the greatest film scenes ever shot; here’s my take, in no particular order. I’m fairly new to YouTube, but you can see some more of my videos, if you’re interested, at youtube.com/DLandonCole. I’d appreciate any comment or criticism. xD.

Norm ‘Normblog’ Geras is running a posterity collection poll. The story is that, civilization approaching its possible doom (not really, but it’s the premise of the poll), the normblog readership has been assigned the task of assembling for posterity a representative collection of the Arts of Humankind, to be preserved in a sealed container so [...]

I’m actually rather sad about Heath Ledger’s untimely death. He came across as a decent sort in interviews and I rather liked some of the films in which he acted. Indeed, some of them will go down as classics. Ten Things I Hate About You, Monster’s Ball, Ned Kelly and, of course, Brokeback Mountain. A [...]

I’ve just heard a discussion on The Westminster Hour about talk that there will be a proposal in the Queen’s Speech to raise the limit for which terror suspects can be detained without charge from twenty-eight to ninety days. Any discussion of this sort is one of balance. Ultimately, the question it comes down to [...]

I just went to see 3:10 to Yuma, the remake of the 1957 film with Christian Bale and Russell Crowe as the main characters. I greatly enjoyed it and would happily see it again; I’m not sure whether it will become a classic, but it is a very good film. **Spoiler warning** The end of [...]

Iain Dale has become an expert on the fairer sex. It would seem, sadly, that Iain Dale’s idea of not being sexist is, er, stereotyping women. Quoth the raven: In this increasingly presidential age, his softer approach will be judged against the aggression of Gordon Brown. Women do not like great clunking fists. They don’t [...]

I have an idea for an online deputy leadership hustings. There is, in the form of Bloggers4Labour, a community of Labour activists who blog and who are trying to promote the medium. The Conservative blogosphere grew around the time of Cameron’s election; perhaps the Labour blogosphere should do the same now. The idea is: Members [...]

A Bloggers4Labour meeting took place on Monday evening and it was really rather good. Yes, there was geekery – Labour geekery, computer geekery and even ale geekery – but it was all very good natured. I’m going to do a couple of posts, on Labour blogging and blogging in general,1 but what strikes me is [...]

Include “dalton trumbo on demolishing silly books”, “where does elvemage pk”, “dave cole south london” (a different Dave Cole, as I live north of the river) and “unoriginal name dave cole” (someone knows who I am). xD.

You can see Guido Fawkes unsuccessfully take on Michael White on Newsnight here at 31’58”. Guido digs himself a large hole and then jumps into it. Michael White ‘exposed’ Paul De Laire Staines as the man behind Guido Fawkes. Tim Ireland did it a while ago pretty comprehensively and there was someone before that. It [...]