Adam Savage has a couple of nice videos from the Paramount Film Archives. I especially enjoyed the second of these on the various media formats used over the years.
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New Old Stock IBM OS/2 Warp 3.0
Abort Retry Fail has a really nice post on opening and installing a new old stock Red Spine release of OS/2 Warp 3.0.
Now, while I’ve played around with OS/2 Warp 4.0 and 4.52 as part of Period Sites in Period Browsers, Warp 3.0 is not one I’ve yet reached.
And how uncanny it looks! Familiar but alien. Windows 3.1 but not. I should really get an instance of this up and running just so I can really feel – rather than just see – the differences between how I expect it to work and how it does work…
Anyway, I strongly suggest going and having a read of the article and a look at the pretty pictures.
Remembrance Toppers and Other Remembrance Knitwear in Malton
TopperBlog returns with a set of Remembrance Toppers and other knitwear. I’m not posting any images from the memorial itself as I’m sure there are far better pictures from the service on Sunday already online.
There’s been a lot of work put into these commemorations and, sadly, I’m not entirely sure I’ve managed to find them all.
The Marketplace Post Box
‘Lest We Forget’ by the Post Office. The boots and the helmet had really stood up to the effects of the weather.
War Pigs / The Flaming Lips (Live 2025)
The Flaming Lips have done a pretty nice cover of Black Sabbath’s War Pigs.
York Minster from Lop Lane
Whilst poking around on Getty.edu’s art search site I managed to stumble on this fascinating but sadly poor photograph of what is now the junction between Museum Street, St Leonard’s Place, Duncombe Place, and Blake Street. The photos current location can be seen on the StreetView below.
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Arxiv has an interesting paper on LLM reversibility and, while the maths is way over my head, the implications of it are definitely interesting.
The Cray Y-MP C90
It’s the start of the month and over at Retro Computer Adverts there’s a rather lovely brochure for the Cray Y-MP C90 in all of it’s early 1990s glory.
ISS in Real Time
The ISS in Real Time is a fully interactive timeline of the ISS’s operation and is more than a little cool. They’ve managed to dig out all sorts of old footage and photos, crew manifests and daily schedules, and have put it all together in a pretty but usable interface. The flightpath widget is also a nice way of showing where the station was at any particular time.
The Masterplan / Oasis (1995)
So The Masterplan is 30 years old today. Do you feel old yet?
BSE, A 90s Chronology of Events
And here’s another interesting chunk of Archivery via Period Sites in Period Browsers that doesn’t appear to be online anywhere else – A mid 1990s chronology of the BSE outbreak in the UK as published by the MAFF.
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