Okay. Very much in the vein of Bill Hicks and his obsession with "COPS", I have a confession ( Read more... )

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Today's "geek of a certain age" link;

Gatchaman!

Or you may know it better as Battle of the Planets

Either way - you can't argue with the coolness.

...do it yourself.

"Oh! Oh! Play that sad walking away music from The Incredible Hulk!"


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Well, time to delve into my bookmarks and drag some stuff out.

This is a fairly weird thing and I have no idea where the heck I picked it up. It's a series of drawings done by someone going through an acid trip as some kind of medical test. It's quite weird, because at first the drawings degenerate into scribbles, and then all of a sudden they ( Read more... )

Y'know, sometimes I love how Amazon's recommendations can get thrown for a loop by those "once in a blue moon" purchases, you know like things for other people, total impulse buys, or things you're only every going to buy one of for years ( Read more... )

Just as an extra - InsideKSC. Good place for space news, ongoing progress on the Space Shuttle refits and lots of DiVX video of Shuttle launches and the like.

...and who have a slightly aeronautic geeky turn of mind... following on from yesterday's links here's some home projects involving cardboard airships and spaceships. Print on light card, cut out, fold and stick...

The interesting one is, of course, the world's first fully commercial manned spacecraft, SpaceShipOne. The model is now slightly ( Read more... )

Probably got you too interested there. In this case, it's only to watch spacecraft covered in scaffolding and crowds of schoolchildren on a day out to the National Air and Space Museum.

First up - the Space Shuttle Enterprise, currently undergoing a bit of buffing up. Never flew in space, unfortunately. It did atmospheric flight and landing tests ( Read more... )

There comes a point when I have to admit to myself that I watch too much TV. Or, rather, I theoretically watch too much telly... y'see, I let my TiVo record it and then don't get the time to get round to watching it myself. Currently I'm two episodes behind in "24", and likely to go three episodes behind tonight ( Read more... )