Well ... that didn't really tell us much we didn't already know, did it?
( Spoiler warning, nonetheless )

I don't believe in censorship, but if I did...

The Discworld series. Because that's how you get teenagers interested in something.

Saw a programme about The 2012 Thing on the National Geographic channel when I was at my sister's last night. So far as I can tell, the key points are as follows.
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Darnit, forgot this was on! Only tuned in halfway through One Song To The Tune Of Another.

Excellent stuff, although I still think His Majestic Fryness, the King of Twitter should have been the new presenter.

jblum has an intepretation of [SPOILER REDACTED] that hadn't occured to me before.

[Edit: Warning, spoiler now detailed in comments. Read on at own risk.]

Wow.

I mean, wow.
( further wows, but in more detail )

Interesting.
( spoilers for Sins of the Father )

...is the fact Scottish football teams aren't allowed to play in the English leagues really headline news?

The Daily Record thinks so, since I noticed this front page story while I was buying stamps...

(On a sidenote, I'm amused that the Record's description on Google is "Read latest Scottish news, sport, UK and world news. Breaking news on Scottish football teams including Rangers, Celtic FC, Hibs FC and more", with the subsection "Football" coming before "News".)

Happy birthday, rob_t_firefly!

Happy birthday loveandgarbage!

Still haven't seen part two of "Beauty And The Beast". But I have seen this week's, "The Witchfinder Pursuivant"[1].
( spoilers )

Happy birthday, pedanther!

Because I was in Edinburgh last week, I didn't see Merlin until the Friday repeat[1], and because I was at my sister's for Hallowe'en, I still haven't seen this week's. (My neice missed the Friday repeat, so wasn't watching Part Two until she'd seen Part One on iPlayer.)
( Mild spoilers for Part One of Beauty And The Beast )

Happy birthday, songster!

It arrived at the library last week while I was in Edinburgh, and Mum picked it up for me. I spent last couple of days devouring it.

Excellent. Now it gets lent to Mum, then my sister and then if there's time I read it again before returning it.

Belated happy birthday to ciciaye!

The Highland Libraries online catalogue now lists its copies of Unseen Academicals as "On shelf" rather than "On order".

Of course, "on shelf" doesn't actually mean they're on the shelves where anyone can pick them up, it means they're waiting for the people who ordered them to pick them up (or more likely, they're waiting for the library service to get round to informing people that they're waiting to be picked up). And while I'm on that list, I'm not near the front, so I've got a while to wait yet.

I will try to limit my obsessive tracking of the situation. Checking the catalogue three times today, when they're not even open, might be excessive...

Edit: Having said that, I've taken another look at the details. While a lot of people have reserved the book, as the librarian warned me, they're scattered over various copies being sent to various branches. It appears only one of these reservations is at Culloden Library.

I think I'll be spending tomorrow hovering over the phone...

Additional Edit: Ah. Now it's three reservations (but since I reserved it last month I must be the first one, right?) and "item is between locations". Which, if I recall correctly from my work experience at the Library Support Unit, means it's in a pigeonhole at LSU, and may be there for a while...

The 2010 Doctor Who logo is out. It looks like this:
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Forgot to write about this last week, so here's a quick rundown of my thoughts on the last two eps.

( Spoilers for Once And Future Queen and The Nightmare Begins )