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NVIDIA Verses A Conspiracy Theory

Sadly lost to the ~~mists of time~~ the Wayback Machine, here’s NVIDIA’s recreation of the Apollo 11 moonwalk – complete with accurate, conspiracy-busting lighting!

Got to Have Love / Pulp (2025)

Another new Pulp track.

It’s a nice listen – and possibly better than the first one they released from this run. It makes me think that the new album will be a good listen.

The 185th Anniversary of the York Minster Fire of 1840

It’s the 185th anniversary of the fire at York Minster on 20^th May, 1840 and here’s a print to mark the occasion!

Meeting in the Aisle / Radiohead (1998)

Radiohead’s Meeting in the Aisle from 1998, a piece that I first heard as part of the Meeting People Is Easy soundtrack.

‘Magic’ and ‘More Magic’.

It’s an old one but, from the jargon files, A Story About Magic.

Period Sites with Period Browsers – Machine No. 134

I’ve adde another new Browser and OS combination to Period Sites with Period Browsers – Windows XP Home x86 with Mozilla Phoenix 0.1. See it’s first run here!

Breaking Waves at Poldhu Cove

The first of what is likely to be a run of videos from my spring trip to Cornwall – ‘Breaking Waves at Poldhu Cove’.

See more video and photography from this trip at ‘Cornwall, Spring 2025‘!

Behind the Bamboo Curtain – Spying on China During Mao’s Cultural Revolution / ITN (1967)

An interesting historic look by ITN at monitoring Mao’s China from 1967.

A Viaduct for Staithes

A little more from my trawl through “The North Eastern Railway – Its Rise and Development“ – this time it’s a nice (and, as far as I can tell, unique) shot of the Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway’s viaduct over Staithes Beck, just south of the village itself.

Described as a ‘light iron viaduct of novel construction’, it has an almost American feel to it and looks very out of place look to the modern eye. Given the failure of that particular line – even before the car and the van out competed it – It’s certainly not something we’ll ever see rebuilt again.