Some older drone footage tracing the shoreline at Filey on Christmas Eve 2021. Those with keen eyes will be able to see the coats people have wrapped themselves up with.
Gallery: 2021 Miscellanea
Month: August 2025
Netscape Navigator User Demographics circa 1996
So this lunchtime Period Sites in Period Browsers (PSPB) threw up an interesting bit of history – a brief overview of Netscape Navigator users circa 1996.
The Beadlean Library
The Fence has an interesting little article about Jeremy Beadle and his rather large collection of books – though, of course, like any article of this nature it’s not just about Beadle and his rather large collection of books.
Bizzarie di varie Figure / Giovanni Battista Bracelli (1624)
A fascinating set of images by Giovanni Battista Bracelli’s Bizzarie di varie Figure. They are, in some ways, much more modern than the 1624 production date suggests and good number of them would fit nicely in with the various art movements of the early to mid 20th Century. Some also remind me of the creations that used to fill York’s Museum of Automata.
A Macintosh Independence Day
I’ve started to develop a fondness for these older computer adverts. This ‘Apple/Independence Day’ tie-in ad – from the dark days of 1996 when Apple was on the cusp of bankruptcy and Jobs was yet to return – feels comfortingly of that moment.
Continue reading “A Macintosh Independence Day”Cornered Star / Melanie Manchot (2018)
A horse strolls around a silent Brutalist estate. It sounds like it should be rather tedious, but Melanie Manchot’s Cornered Star is rather compelling.
The Doctor Shops for a Minicomputer…
And here’s a rather nice pair of Doctor Who-themed adverts for the Prime Computer range of minicomputers. There are so fairly obvious hints that Tom Baker and Lalla Ward are phoning it in but the shoutout to their current – but brief – marriage is rather nice.
A VJ Day Topper in Malton
In spite of what I said previously, this blog’s descent into postbox topper groupie-ism appears to continue.
This time Malton sees a simple – yet effective – topper to mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day on the 15th of August.
Converting PDFs to JPEG sequences using imagemagick
Imagemagick (available from all good package managers) has the ability to split a .pdf file into a set of numbered images via the following incantation…
convert -quality 100 -density 200 -colorspace sRGB <PathToPDF> -flatten <PathToOutputDirectory/>Page-%02d.jpeg…where, of course, ‘%02d’ represents the auto-numbering element of the incantation.
A Post Box Topper in Beverley
I promise this blog isn’t about to become a postbox topper blog. I really do.
Having said that, here’s a rather nice teddy-bears’ picnic topper that I happened to pass in Beverley the other day.
