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Author: imran

  • Star Trek

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    I should be depressed. I should be indignant. I should be angry. Alongside Bruce Wayne, James Tiberius Kirk was my fictional childhood hero, how can anyone, anyone but The Shat play Kirk?? Oddly, though Batman has been played by countless brilliant, middling and appalling actors, my fanboy-ity for Batman has remained undiminished. But Kirk is…

  • OpenCoffee Leeds {August}

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    Wow, it’s almost four weeks since this month’s edition of OpenCoffee Leeds, which also happened to be the opening event of LS1, our first Leeds web festival. At last month’s event, we just had a couple dozen – albeit interesting – people, but this time around we were back at the 25-ish level of attendance…

  • Brighton Port Authority: Toe Jam

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    Rediscovering Cliptip last night, I came across BPA’s new Toe Jam video…yeh, yeh – it’s a couple months old, but I’ve always been a huge fan of Fat Boy Slim‘s videos – from Spike Jonze’ directed Praise You and Weapon Of Choice to Bird of Prey – though not such a great fan of his…

  • We Made (Another) BarCamp!

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    Wow. We did it again…We made another BarCamp 🙂 Last year, we just had 28 days to prepare Leeds’ first unconference – and none of us had done this before. This year, we had a couple extra weeks and some sponsors already in the bag, but the team was less available, we’d scheduled an additional…

  • Girl Geek Dinner {Leeds}

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    Last night saw Leeds’ first Girl Geek Dinner and the third of eight events taking place throughout the city’s inaugural web festival at Brisbane, LS1. Around sixty girls and a half dozen guys squeezed into the night’s venue, The Study, on the third floor of the Living Room. Though the heavens had opened up with…

  • LS1: The (first) Leeds Web Festival

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    As London’s blogoshpere bloviates about the unfolding story of that city’s Silicon Roundabout, it’s easy to overlook the progress others are making to bootstrap technology ecospheres elsewhere in the UK. Leeds is by no means London, Boston or San Francisco, but the one of Britain’s emerging city regions is quietly orienting itself to the future…

  • Dr. Horrible…

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    …Why No Serie-us? Aspiring super-villain Dr. Horrible wants to join the Evil League of Evil and win the girl of his dreams, but his nemesis, Captain Hammer…

  • Boxes + Clutter

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    This morning I serendepitously came across a review of Peter Walsh’s book on decluttering, It’s All To Much and got the chance to catch More4’s documentary on Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes – each work ostensibly a stark counterpoint of the other. Walsh’s book argues that we generate false relevance by constantly organising things we don’t want…

  • OpenCoffee Leeds {July}

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    This month, OpenCoffee was a little quieter than usual, with only around twelve people arriving throughout the morning…infact the smallest crowd since we started out in June last year. I’m wondering if people are finding Old Broadcasting House less reachable or pleasant…or if the weather was just too good to be hanging around with a…

  • ‘Earth’

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    ‘…we finally really did it. You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!‘