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MySpace and Blakes 7

I'm fairly sure that I've only stumbled onto MySpace once, and the horrible mishmash of text, images, sound and video sent me running for the hills, but apparently some people do use it. According to El Reg, since the lovely and benevolent Mr. Murdoch took over, the terms and conditions and conditions have been tweaked just a little. The synopsis seems to be "News Corporation pwns j00" - anything you put on MySpace, they get to keep forever and use however they like. Yup, when the MySpacer grows up and becomes famous, all those skeletons in the MySpace closet can pop up in the Sun or on Fox News. Lovely.

The last couple of days I've been working through my newly-arrived DVDs of the final season of Blakes 7. Yes, the wobbly sets and dodgy special effects are still there, but considering the tiny budget, one can hardly complain - and it's the story and characters that you watch it for (yes, I still want to be Avon when I grow up, why do you ask?) The influence on later shows like Babylon 5 (league of non-aligned planets, anyone?) and Firefly (a bunch of renegades on a spaceship fighting an evil federation which uses pacification drugs...) is clearer than ever. Plus you get one of the greatest endings to a TV series ever...
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