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Broadcasting Standards Commission - BSC. Regulates taste, decency and fair treatment on television and radio.
Independent Television Commission - ITC. Regulates and licences television broadcasters.
Digital Television Group Activities - Latest news on various digital broadcast fronts.
Royal Television Society - Representing public service television and scientific advancement.
Alexandra Palace Television Society - A Society to preserve, for present and future generations, the oral and written history of the pioneers who inaugurated the world's first, regular, public high-definition television service from Alexandra Palace, North London, in 1936.
LiTN - The association of Restricted TV Service Licence applicants.
Campaign For The Improvement Of BBC TV News In The Home Counties - Campaign to encourage the BBC to give more time to news and features from outside the Greater London region during their BBC London news programmes.
Abolish TV Licence - Campaigns against the television licence, with news, archives, feedback and background information on TV licencing issues.
The Deaf Broadcasting Council - Consumer organisation representing deaf, deafened and hard of hearing television viewers, working to improve their access to the medium. Includes information about their history and activities, with advice for viewers.
The UK Campaign for Logo Free TV - A campaign and petition seeking the removal of excessive Logos, Bugs, Dogs, Idents and Emblems: news, complaint tool, message board and contact details.
Licencefee.com - Analysis of the BBC television licence fee, BBC royal charter review, including latest news and forum.
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. -- Oscar Wilde Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. -- Al Capp Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. -- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Organisations I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. -- Anne S Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. -- Charles Du Bos Organisations The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -- Nicholas Murray Butler Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. -- G. K. Chesterton Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. -- Benjamin Disraeli Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! -- Rory Bremner Organisations I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. -- Will Rogers "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Organisations In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. -- Mortimer J. Adler "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anaïs Nin Work expands to fill the time available. -- PARKINSON'S LAW Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard Organisations If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. -- Oliver Herford If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw Organisations "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands What do you take me for, an idiot? - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald Organisations Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you r Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -- Thornton Wilder Hell is other people. - Jean-Paul Sartre Organisations It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then." -- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins Organisations It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -- John Stuart Mill We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle Organisations The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -- Salvador Dali Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. -- Samuel Butler How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. -- Abraham Lincoln "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I Organisations "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. -- Hermann Weyl "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Organisations "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. -- Ellen DeGeneres "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) This book fills a much-needed gap. - Moses Hadas in a review "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Organisations "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz Organisations Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung Live out of your imagination, not your history. -- Stephen Covey To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. -- Lao Tzu I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert Einstein If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau Organisations Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. -- Benjamin Disraeli Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. --Anon. To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau Organisations In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. -- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. - Bill Hirst The best defense is a good offense. -- Anonymous I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette Organisations "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. -- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. -- Oscar Wilde Organisations "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Organisations The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. -- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr Organisations Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Organisations Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. -- Fredrich Halm Organisations
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