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Sunday 6th September 2009 saw the massive firework display which marked the end of the Edinburgh International Festival which had run since the start of August. To the sounds of Handel, thousands of pounds worth of pyrotechnics exploded and showered down from Edinburgh Castle ramparts. Speakers were set up at Inverleith Park and Calton Hill [...]

I feel like I haven’t invented nearly enough new words recently, so today I was particularly pleased when I was watching some on demand TV online that was rudely interrupted by… a buffercopter.
Buffercopter (Buf·er·cop·ter)
Noun

The spinning circular symbol which displays when an online streamed video is loading, or ‘buffering’;
A person, thing or object which prevents a [...]

If  I told you I was going to run around the local park, wearing a bib, being shouted at by a bloke in his 30’s, you might think I’d gone back to school for a P.E. lesson. But this is what hundreds of people do several times a week due the ingenius business plan of [...]

There’s one word, I’m consistently told, that is more offensive than any other. Its not “flip” or even “twerp” and it begins with the letter “c”.
On Sky News though, you’re allowed to say it!

For a while there, we had it very good as bloggers and content producers: we could use YouTube to store our videos, and embed them in high quality on other websites.
On sites such as Remix.vg, we have been doing this for some time now, allowing visitors to find high quality remixes of their favourite popular [...]

We saw today on Paul O’Grady’s Channel 4 TV show (while Martin Clunes was on) a Dingo by the name of Dinky which sang songs to the piano.
After watching that, we thought we’d feature a video of that very same dingo, Dinky, here, on The World’s Greatest Blog as a little bit of light relief.
So [...]

Yet another media star has fallen from grace very publicly, we’ve had Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross behaving strangely, and seen Kerry Katona’s worrying performance on ITV’s This Morning program.
We didn’t catch the original airing of this show, but we did manage to track down this video recording. Click here to share this video with [...]

Today we checked our usual websites and noticed that the videos were not displaying in Firefox. I found a really useful thread here and a really good explanation here. The culprit seems to be IPv6 which can be uninstalled. It turns out we’re not the only ones struggling with our embedded Youtube videos.
This is a [...]

There are two issues with latest Bond film and it hasn’t even been released yet. Most people are already sniggering about the name – the general population being wary of any words that aren’t on Big Brother. (I quite like the name, it is very descriptive of Bond’s state after the death of his girlfriend). [...]

I watched this episode of South Park a long time ago, back when I was at University, but I still find this reference to Rob Schneider incredibly funny, and still it is a current joke. Perhaps, though, we need to replace Rob Schneider with, for example, Justin timberlake, as I saw him advertised in a [...]