The Polyphonic Spree‘s cover of Nirvana‘s Lithium.
Recent films – Summer 2022
It’s been something of a slow summer season for films this year.
Layer Cake
And in the beginning there was ‘Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels‘, and the people saw it and liked it and told their friends, who also saw it and liked it and told their friends.,
And then, after some time, it had earned 28 million dollars on a budget of just 1.4 million.
And the film executives and producers and directors looked at this return and saw that it was good.
And thus began the late 90s wave of UK-based dramedy crime capers.
Continue reading “Recent films – Summer 2022”Map Stuff – Early September 2022 Update
I’ve just added 575 map images of Dorset from the ‘Ordnance Survey Maps – Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952’ series to the map project.
Interesting places covered in Dorset update include:
Perseus Galaxy / NASA
The deeply haunting sounds of the Perseus Galaxy‘s pressure waves, pitch shifted from 57 octaves below middle C. Via the NASA News Room.
Gut Fauna / XKCD
Channel 4’s Turnover and Profit
Channel 4’s turnover and post tax profit from 1993 to the end of 2021 (the last full year currently available), both in absolute terms and adjusted to 2021 prices via the BoE inflation calculator.
Chart data points can be rolled over to provide more information.
Turnover
Continue reading “Channel 4’s Turnover and Profit”It’s Grim Up North / The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu
‘…Bradford, Buxton, Crewe, Warrington, Widnes, Wigan, Leeds, Northwich, Nantwich…’
‘…Manchester, Castleford, Skem, Doncaster, Dewsbury, Hali-fax, Bingley, Bramhall, Are all in the North…’
It’s Grim Up North by the The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu. From the cancelled The Black Room.
More DALL-E
Yes! Yet more DALL-E spam!
A Giant Duck Menacing 1950s London
The top left duck appears to be constipated. The bottom right appears to be nesting within the product of its destruction.
Continue reading “More DALL-E”Building QEMU 7.0 on Raspberry Pi OS
***NEW: Building QEMU 10.0 on Raspberry Pi OS***
***NEW: Building QEMU 8.0 on Raspberry Pi OS***
The Introduction
And spring 2022 brings us another major release of QEMU – in this case, QEMU 7.0, available in all of its tar.xz’d loveliness directly from qemu.org.
Whilst the Raspberry Pi OS‘s package repository remains the fastest, simplest way to get QEMU onto your Pi, Pi OS’s Debian lineage often leaves it trailing the cutting edge – in the case of QEMU, the packaged release for Raspberry Pi OS (version 2022-04-04) is version 5.2 from way back in December 2020.
Fortunately, QEMU is fairly easy to download and compile ourselves.
Continue reading “Building QEMU 7.0 on Raspberry Pi OS”Map Stuff – Early August 2022 Update
And another 2026 map images from the ‘Ordnance Survey Maps – Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952’ series:
- 1564 Maps from Lancashire.
- 462 Maps from Warwickshire
Lancashire – 1664 Maps
Interesting places covered in Lancashire include:
Warwickshire – 462 Maps
Interesting places covered in Warwickshire include:
