Spend any time watching rolling news services such as BBC News or Sky News? This little video clip from Charlie Brooker explains how it’s all put together. You’ll never look at another news item in the same way again! Be warned, the clip contains a couple of rude words… YouTube Clip : How to report [...]

Going back to my youth! Back in the 80′s, while my contemporaries were blowing up asteroids or shooting invaders from space, my game of choice was a Pac-Man clone called Ladybug. Ladybug was a maze-based game where the mission was to dash around eating crosses, hearts and letters (spell Extra for an extra life). The [...]

OK, so I know it’s childish, but every day I look at this, I smirk. Viewing the Media Guardian RSS news feed on an iPhone results in a slightly embarrasing shortening, as pictured in this screenshot. I just had to share…

Did 2008 seem like a long year to you? Well, technically it was – one second longer in fact. Today, we use atomic clocks to provide an accurate measurement of time, but the clocks are so accurate that they’re more reliable than the rotation of the earth – the traditional measurement we use for hours, [...]

Welcome to this new corner of the Frequencycast website. The plan, such as it is, is for the lads and lass behind the podcast to post random words about Life, the Universe and Egg Sandwiches here. There’s too many opinionated blogs out there already – so why not add one more?