It looks like a lovely day for it…
Author Archives: ChrisC
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Concept Art / NASA (1973)
A lovely spot of concept art from what became July 1975’s Apollo–Soyuz mission.
Via NASA.
Photographs – A Trip to The National Railway Museum
It’s been a little while since I last added any photographs, however you can now find a selection of images from at May 2024 trip to The National Railway Museum here!
MIT fed an AI data from Reddit, and now it only thinks about murder
Apparently the hot new things is to train your A.I. on Reddit – something that doesn’t have a particularly great track record…
New Slang / The Shins (2001)
In spite of turning up on the Garden State Soundtrack, I remain rather taken with the New Slang.
Decades later, John Romero looks back at the birth of the first-person shooter
Arstechnica has a nice little interview with John Romero about some of his early work on 3D shooters. And if you enjoyed that, then I’d also recommend Masters of Doom.
Stupid Girl / Garbage (1996)
It had been a while since I’d properly listened to any Garbage and I’d forgotten just how catchy some of their early work was. Fortunately, Stupid Girl happened to show up during some of my weekly Top of the Pops viewing and prodded enough tired memories to the surface that I now know what I’ll be listening to this afternoon.
A Flight Over Winscar Reservoir
Winscar reservoir and the east end of the old Woodhead Tunnels
When Daffodils Attack: 1981’s The Day of the Triffids come to Blu-Ray – Episode One
Quick Links
Introduction
Episode One
Episode Two
Episode Three
Episode Four
Episode Five
Episode Six
The Blu Ray Package
Starring the Computer
Starring the Computer is a fun – if somewhat geeky – site recording the use of various computers in films and television. As long with the usual suspects – such as the Apple Macintosh SE and the Commodore 64 – they have some more obscure devices, such as the Thinking Machines CM-1 pictured below. It is really worth a look.
