Has it really been thirty years since the ‘Stop the Planet of the Apes. I Want to Get Off!‘ segment first went out on TV? It’s still fantastic.
There’s also a very nice article on ‘The Vulture‘ that dips into the history of it’s production.
‘British Railways Locomotives’ (circa 1956)
A lovely poster from the Science Museum Group; British Railways Locomotives from around 1956.
Fire from the <strike>Gods</strike> Suffolk
LiveScience has a nice article on the earliest discovery of human-controlled fire creation technology. Apparently 400,000 years ago the good people of Suffolk liked to sit around a nice warm fire!
Boxing Day Sunrise Timelapse from Malton across the Yorkshire Wolds – Noir
My Boxing Day 2025 timelapse – this time in black and white.
Bishopthorpe Ferry
I’ve just added a new page on the Bishopthorpe Ferry to ‘Crossing the Ouse‘. Why not go and have a look?
The Bone Temple / Hildur Guðnadóttir (2026)
Utterly lovely.
Ephemeral 80s
While I have both tags and categories marked as ‘Ephemera’, my random collection of witterings about various bits of historic ephemera is no-where near as well structured or as well targeted as Ephemeral 80s.
I’m going to be honest, while any site can be for anyone, you probably have to be of a certain age and to have spent time in certain select (but middling) British demographics for it to truly hit home.
Continue reading “Ephemeral 80s”Computer History Museum Recovers Rare UNIX History
The Computer History Museum has a really nice video on how they extracted the data from the University of Utah’s UNIX V4 tape and recovered the first C version of UNIX.
They appear to have uploaded the recovered data to the Internet Archive here.
Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs
This capability comes for free…
Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs
ArXiv has an interesting paper on mechanising online deanonymization attacks on large datasets. Even if you’re not interested in LLMs it’s still worth understanding what they’re capable of and how they may be deployed against you in the future.
Continue reading “Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs”‘To York, Dick Turpin’s Ride’
Poking around the Science Museum’s archives, I came across this rather fabulous ‘Dick Turpin’ themed LNER poster for train travel to York.
Just look at how wonderful it is!