A Little More Web Kipple
Possibly my favourite ever Doctor Who death – the man-eating chair from 1971’s Terror of the Autons. It’s great fun with 70s Doctor Who remaining true to it’s nature – spending almost 30 seconds on inflating a plastic chair – and, as always, Roger Delgado remains the consummate professional through out.
I’d have watched that.
Episode Number: 1351
First Shown: 7.00 pm on January 18th, 1990
Presenter(s): Nicky Campbell
Official Top 40: @The Official Charts
Studio: BBC Television Centre
iPlayer: Top of the Pops – January 18th, 1990
BBC Genome: Here!
Retro Directory is a listing of retro computing orgs, museums, podcasts and youtube channels. I knew about a few of these but most are a complete surprise to me!
My own little bit of retro computingness can be found at Period Sites in Period Browsers.
Microsoft’s Windows might dislike the naming scheme of MASTER BOOT RECORD‘s albums.
Horrible Edge Cases to Consider When Dealing With Music, Dustri.org
If you’re on Linux, you might appreciate ///////-//-///// from The You Suck Flying Circus.
And here’s a fun little list of weird edge cases to think about when dealing with music. Some – such as Nine Inch Nails’s Broken having 90 tracks of four seconds of silence – I knew about, but may of them I’d not seen before and their issues wouldn’t have even crossed my mind.
Courtesy of the Portland Branch of the US Army Corps of Engineers, we now have the badly photoshopped Kaiju cat calendar none of us knew we actually needed!
A lovely little time lapse of the repairs to the 2018 Middlewich Breach.
…And here’s the Foxes Afloat video that covers the whole thing!
York in flood during (apparently) the late 70s. At about 30 seconds in there’s a lovely shot of a very wet pre-flood defence Marygate. Later on, at around one minute forty, you get a shot along Wellington Row and across the River – notably showing the build that there before the construction of the General Accident (now Aviva) Building. There are also some nice shots of The Kings Arms and the bottom of the Museum Gardens in flood.
