Tag Archive | "William Shatner"

Happy 80th birthday, William Shatner!

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

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(detail from cover to Star Trek : Burden of Knowledge, art by  Joe Corroney, published IDW) Can it really be true? Can the mighty Shatner really be celebrating the anniversary of 80 of our Earth years this very day? Yes, folks, the man who is Captain James T Kirk (sorry, Chris Pine, loved you in [...]

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Vote Shatner-Palin??

Monday, December 14, 2009

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The mighty Shat has been happily extracting the Michael from former vice-presidental hopeful and gaffe-prone politician Sarah Palin for NBC’s Tonight Show in the US, doing readings from her book (I use the word ‘book’ quite incorrectly here) Going Rogue, when he had the tables turned by the arrival of Palin herself who read from [...]

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Mighty Time Lord computing

Monday, December 7, 2009

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The Cynical C blog points us towards this set of classic adverts from the early days of personal computing with Tom Baker’s Doctor and Lalla Ward’s Romana selling us the latest in digital technology (hey, anyone remember the ‘paperless office’ promises of the early and mid 80s?). I’d completely forgotten about these, they were probably [...]

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