Another nice mid-90s documentary, this time on the Manic Street Preachers.
Linkspam
How the Internet Gave Us Access to Obscure Television
Up until the late-1990s, if you missed something on television then it was unlikely you were going to see it again any time soon. Even if you had – and I understand younger readers’ horror at this proposition – managed to position yourself in front of your television at a set time, you would need a hardy memory to remember it over the years.
curious british telly
‘How the Internet Gave Us Access to Obscure Television‘ is a nice short history of of British media trading as it transitioned from tape trading to BitTorrent and then onto modern Youtube.
Continue readingComic Relief’s Income
Apparently it was Red Nose Day 2021 a couple of weeks ago and I completely missed it – as I have for the past decade or so – which is odd because, as a child, I used to really enjoy it.
Anyway, I wondered how it’s income was standing up after – of course – the effects of inflation have been taken into account.
Continue readingKirkham Priory Weir, Easter Sunday 2021
A little video from the weir at Kirkham Priory in North Yorkshire.
And the same weir in slow motion…
Fly, You Fools!
Splash! (Mosaic Style!)
You just don’t get installer splash screens like this any more…
Anyway, the first shots from NCSA Mosaic 3.0 on Windows 95 should be going up as we speak.
Morph
This is cool.
Alev Lenz – Fall Into Me
As used a the end of one of the better Black Mirror episodes.
VMware Tools for Debian 10/Ubuntu 20.04 arm64 on ESXi-Arm
This is a pretty good set of instructions for setting up VMware Tools for Debian 10/Ubuntu 20.04 arm64 on ESXi-Arm.
Vimto
Not that this resembles most of my 90s viewing…