(Stolen from the splendid types on the Twitter ( Read more... )

[ Technical ramble. It should be on the technical weblog, but that's up on blocks at the moment ( Read more... )

As mentioned here it is the 21st century and I am hacking a brain interface ( Read more... )

When we were small there was a different and smaller set (or is it canteen? The Internet is filled with American assumptions and is therefore unhelpful) of cutlery for the children. Come to think of it, there was another complete set that featured forks with only three tines. Antique and alien cutlery for eating things from other planets. I don't ( Read more... )

Well, that was a jolly way to spend a warm bank holiday Monday ( Read more... )

Via the Manchester Guardian, we find this marvellous work of Cold War propaganda. Not that I'm a particular fan of Strategic Air Command, Christmas icon notwithstanding, it's just that the film is an unintentional cavalcade of pre-90s cultural icons. Big analogue screens driven by shipping container-sized tech. Curvilinear stove-enamelled computer ( Read more... )

Fuuuuucking hell.

SonVer + Bath Ales + The Cube + 40s surrealist films = a really quite spectacularly good Friday evening.

Y'all really should make the effort to go and see them.

A while ago, the splendid avocadovpx opined that he'd bought 'the sort of sweatshirt that hirez could get away with.'

In turn, I think I've bought a sweatshirt that only someone more rock&roll than I could get away with.

We shall see.

(These German types seem to have shorter arms, mind.)

Does anyone really, truly believe this is news?If you do, I suggest the following ( Read more... )

You know, right now it looks like a pint of Strongarm viewed through the wrong end of a telescope.

(And I think the LC-A needs a remote shutter release. I got bored after two minutes of standing very still.)