McBain: The Movie is a lost 80s action classic. What little footage remains has been spliced together below for your edification.
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cat /proc/cpuinfo for an Intel NUC7PJYH NUC Kit
cat /proc/cpuinfo for an Intel NUC7PJYH NUC kit running Kubuntu 21.10.
Continue readingYorkshire’s Blake’s 7 Filming Locations
Visual Mutterings has quite a nice guide to Yorkshire’s Blake’s 7 filming locations. It sounds like an entirely successful trip!
Kubrickian Star Wars
From the chap who brought us 2001: A Space Odyssey – As directed by George Lucas a few months ago.
FANNY The Brave Dog (Lee Hardcastle)
A fun little 43 seconds exploring the idea of Uber for Zombie-killing.
Star Trek XII
So very true….
Death By Chair
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.
2001: A Space Odyssey – As directed by George Lucas
I’d have watched that.
Maps – Mid December 2022 Update
469 additional map images of Bedfordshire from the ‘Ordnance Survey Maps – Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952’ series.
Interesting places covered this update include:
BOINC in Retrospect
BOINC is a software system for “volunteer computing”: it lets people donate time on their home computers and smartphones to science research projects. It has been used by about 50 projects in many areas of science, and has run on millions of computers.
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