Scraps (batter)

Scraps is a term used in England which refers to left over batter that has been deep-fried and is served as an accompaniment to chips, They are traditionally served free of charge with chips in fish and chip shops. In some parts of the North, they are referred to as 'bits' or 'batter'.

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Bits (TV series)

Bits is a British entertainment television series that aired on Channel 4 from 1999 to 2001, with both late night and edited morning versions of the show.

Five series were produced and uniquely at the time for a show about computer games, had an all female presentation team.

There were also a number of special episodes, notably a three parter in early 2000 titled the Bits 'Super Console Tour' which primarily featured the girls challenging various "pro" gamers in 1v1 battles around the UK in each episode (London, Blackpool, and one other location), as well as their usual sketches and short reviews/newsclips. The games chosen were usually new releases on various consoles, one of which was FantaVision on the newly launched Playstation 2, at which Emily Booth was defeated by Alek Hayes, who was employed at the time at BarrysWorld.

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Byte

The byte (/ˈbaɪt/) is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit of memory in many computer architectures. The size of the byte has historically been hardware dependent and no definitive standards existed that mandated the size. The de facto standard of eight bits is a convenient power of two permitting the values 0 through 255 for one byte. The international standard IEC 80000-13 codified this common meaning. Many types of applications use information representable in eight or fewer bits and processor designers optimize for this common usage. The popularity of major commercial computing architectures has aided in the ubiquitous acceptance of the 8-bit size.

The unit octet was defined to explicitly denote a sequence of 8 bits because of the ambiguity associated at the time with the byte. The usage of the term octad(e) for 8 bits is no longer common today.

Bytes (album)

Bytes is an album by Ed Handley, Andy Turner and Ken Downie, under the name Black Dog Productions.

Background

The album was released in 1993 on double vinyl, cassette and CD and later re-released in 2005. Today, both Ed Handley and Andy Turner form part of Plaid while Ken Downie continues to produce music under the name The Black Dog. All three collaborated on the album under various guises and combinations. Bytes was launched on the Sheffield techno label Warp Records as WARPCD8 in 1993. An early version of "Clan (Mongol Hordes)" appears on Artificial Intelligence as "The Clan".

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Dv8

DV8 is a comic book published by Wildstorm. The series revolves around the lives of a group of Gen-Active people (Called DV8, or referred to as "The Deviants"), initially living in New York under the supervision of Ivana Baiul, who sends them on life-threatening black ops assignments.

Publication history

The series lasted 32 issues. The story of most DV8 members continued in the pages of Gen-Active, an anthology-series featuring various Wildstorm characters. Gen-Active lasted 6 issues.

Writer, Micah Wright, pitched a relaunch to WildStorm in 2003, but it was not picked up by the publisher. The artist on the book would have been Mark Robinson (Codename: Knockout).

The title returned in June 2010 as an eight-issue limited series called DV8: Gods and Monsters, written by Brian Wood with art by Rebekah Isaacs. The project is something Wood had been trying to get commissioned for years:

Fictional team history

Rather than saving the world, they use their powers for selfish reasons: to please themselves, indulge in any fancy that comes their way, uncaring about anybody else, and to forget that they are all just pawns to Ivana, expendable to her needs and desires. The members don't like each other, but are soon banding together for survival. This is what stands this book apart from most other superhero teams: they aren't heroes, they are not nice people, don't even like each other and can't even save themselves, let alone the world.

DV8 (band)

DV8 was an alternative rock band formed in Midlothian, Texas in 2002. The band consisted of Cash Kelley (vocals, guitar), John Cade (drums), and David Sposito (bass, back-up vocals). In 2004, the band released its debut EP, A Sip of What is to Come. That same year, a promotional DVD was produced by one of the bands sponsors, Monster Energy. In 2005, they were invited to perform at the Download Festival in England's Donington Park.DV8 split up in 2006.

The band was managed by Bowling For Soup frontman Jaret Reddick.

History

Lead singer Cash founded DV8 in 2002 recruiting his friends, John Cade, and David Sposito. They began playing at small venues in the area surrounding their hometown of Midlothian, Texas. Eventually, they went on to play larger stages and venues, including the 2004 Warped Tour, the Freakers Ball, and the Download Festival in the UK.

Over the course of their career, DV8 played shows with many notable acts, including Simple Plan, All American Rejects, Bowling For Soup, Fall Out Boy, Mest, and Matchbook Romance. Receiving high accalim, Monster Energy and Ernie Ball were among many high profile companies to sponsor the band.