Another little YouTube find – the old BBC 2 Firecracker Ident, except every time a firecracker goes off the video suffers from VHS generation loss.
Author: ChrisC
Dave Made a Maze
Losslessly Joining JPEGs with JPEGTran
The Introduction
On occasion, you may find that you need to join – or tile – two or more JPEG images into a single image and that you need to do so without the usual JPEG degradation that comes from saving an edited JPEG again and again and again. Fortunately, under some circumstances, there is a solution – JPEGTran from the Independent JPEG Group.
The Images
Our sample images are two tiles taken from The Map Project – in this case map Yorkshire Sheet CLXXIV.SW, a 1950s map of south-west York in the United Kingdom.
An Oral History of 28 Days Later
Inverse has a short oral history of 28 Days Later – film I looked back at almost four years ago. It’s an interesting little piece and I’d not realise how close the 9/11 attacks had come to putting an end to the production of a film that, ultimately, turned out to be a major influence on the genre.
Aliens
Very true.
Coming This Summer…. McBain: The Movie
McBain: The Movie is a lost 80s action classic. What little footage remains has been spliced together below for your edification.
cat /proc/cpuinfo for an Intel NUC7PJYH NUC Kit
cat /proc/cpuinfo for an Intel NUC7PJYH NUC kit running Kubuntu 21.10.
Continue reading “cat /proc/cpuinfo for an Intel NUC7PJYH NUC Kit”Towards Filey Brigg
Filey Beach to Filey Brigg via drone on, alas, a rather dirty April day.
Period Sites in Period Browsers – An Update
Well, it’s been a little while since I last added one of these to my little retro internet project but… welcome to Windows XP Home x86 with Mozilla Suite 1.0 which is now on Period Sites in Period Browsers.
I have also taken the opportunity to renovate the the various tag pages and add a lot more information to them! Why not go and take a look!
Dot Zip Domains Considered Harmful
So… it appears that Google, in their infinite wisdom stupidity, has bought and launched the top level domain ‘zip’ and thus introduced such wonderful domains as ‘https://details.zip’, ‘http://taxforms.zip’ or, as you can see below, ‘https://financialstatement.zip‘. And thus possibly confusing everyone, for ever, all of the time.
But Google is not alone in partaking in this stupidity. ICANN, who should have been on the ball and who already had rules about homophones in UTF domains, seem to have let this slip though without a single thought.
The damned fools.