From the chap who brought us 2001: A Space Odyssey – As directed by George Lucas a few months ago.
Tag: Geekery
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.
continuum-hypothesis.com
The Young Ones Ephemera
A couple of bits of The Young Ones ephemera I’ve stumbled across.
Trailer
The first, a trailer – with a trailer – for the first season of The Young Ones.
(Pinched from here!)
Sellout
And in the second, a Friends Provident advert from 1990, Vyvyan and Neil sellout long enough to try and flog us insurance and investment products whist running around a supermarket.
(Pinched from here!)
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:
