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The World's Gayest Logos

It might be the graphic designer in me speaking, but THIS ARTICLE in Radar Magazine must be one of the funniest things I've seen.

Analysing logos from various companies around the world, they've worked out which have the gayest icons. Or, as they put it, those that are "a little light in their serifs."


For example: "FTD - This guy’s not butch. Having squandered his clothing budget on matching accessories, he races down the street naked (note shaved chest), late for a date with his boyfriend and his boyfriend’s whippet."

There's some real classics here. :D

Who's On First - A Review of Season One of the new Doctor Who

Being a long term Doctor Who fan, the last time we saw the Doctor on our screens was in the TV movie that, it was hoped, would launch a new series. Ratings for the joint US production were poor outside the UK, however, the storyline was rather poor and while the look of the show was great and Paul McGann's Doctor was pretty solid, it didn't seem to inspire anyone either. While I enjoyed it for what it was, it seems the time wasn't right for the Doctor to make a return.



Roll on almost ten years and Who once again returned to our screens. This time, the BBC funded it themselves and took a risk of ploughing a large budget into its re-launch. Gone was any attempt to deliberately cater to the US market and while, I'm sure, making an international success was on the minds of the production team, they seemed first and foremost to want to make a home-grown hit.

And did they succeed? Certainly in terms of audience figures, Who has topped the ratings for Saturday night television in the UK every week since its launch, averaging around 8 million viewers per episode. Not only that, but it has been a success in both Canada and Australia, who seem to "get" the Britishness of the show more than our American cousins. With the relaunch, the BBC clearly set out to make a great, somewhat old fashioned, family entertainment show that captured the ethos of the original series. In that they succeeded without needing to Americanise it.

Right from the start, Eccleston's portrayal of the Doctor has been pretty impressive. He's not the best Doctor ever, but he's a long way from being the worse. His Doctor, like Pertwee's, relies on his physicality as much as his mind. He's a walking mood swing in some episodes, veering from being a rather sharp, petulant child, or harsh taskmaster, to suddenly beaming all over his face and practically breaking into song. The writers and Eccleston himself, seem to have balanced the right combination of wit and intellect that made so many previous doctors a success. His quick tongue seems to keep up to the fast new pace of the show, which has speeded up from the old multi-part episodes of the past. However, for all that, I don't think the pacing has suffered - there's still been plenty of time for character development and interaction, although that has focused more on the Doctor, Rose, Captain Jack, Mickey and Rose's mother, rather than bit part characters. No bad thing, but it does mean some of the "bad guys" have been rather lightly sketched.

However, there was a chance for some supporting characters, like Charles Dickens, played by Simon Callow or Penelope Wilton's MP to get a decent chance to shine. The supporting casts have seemed smaller and more intimate, however, which has all helped to keep the pace of the show moving.

( Full series review follows - cut for spam and spoilers (No, I haven't spoiled the last episode) )