I just watched a video of myself doing a presentation. ‘Who is that really old bloke with a croaky voice’ I thought. Oh dear! So it goes.
Andy Finney
@delverie.bsky.social
Ex-broadcaster and data-wrangler … copyright, infrared and Elektra Records fan … archiving my past … music collection not as big as it was … the odd photo … and with a disobedient memory.
Good interview for a Sunday morning, this. www.thetimes.com/article/7324...
Ian Hislop: ‘Prince Harry? He’s Tim-Nice-But-Dim’
The journalist and satirist was still a student when a drunk Peter Cook offered him a job on Private Eye. Now, he’s celebrating 40 years as the editor — and pulling fewer punches than ever
thetimes.com
Sorry at what point do the government feel the need to do something about BBC funding, or are they just going to watch it be salami-sliced to extinction?
Felicity Hannah@felicityhannah.bsky.social · 4d agoReally sad news. Thinking of my very talented colleagues today
Nearly Every JPEG on Earth Runs on Math a Reviewer Called Too Simple to Fund in 1972 by Alex Cooke fstoppers.com/historical/n...
The Math Behind Every JPEG: Ahmed's Rejected 1972 Proposal | Fstoppers
How a rejected 1972 NSF proposal led to the discrete cosine transform, the mathematical foundation powering nearly every JPEG ever created. Ahmed's summer of 1973 changed digital imaging forever.
fstoppers.com
What was I doing in Cambridge on Sept 18th? El Reg tells all … well some of it! #BBC #Domesday
Spies, prime ministers, and balls: The BBC Domesday project @ 40
The Centre for Computing History gathers the minds behind the project and the ones keeping it alive today
theregister.com
This is beautiful.
Sam Weller@samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky
Thread where I post a music video* I like from every** year in order. *definition extremely flexible, as you will immediately see **obviously I'm going to have to skip many years at the start
I took some peripheral photos of the current state of the world around the Anglia Square demolition. And it happening as well. It’s still fascinating, all the shapes and lines and alignments of a slowly degrading piece of city opening up and showing a bare layered soul as the world walks by.
I often wonder how certain records end up in charity shops and emporia … what was their journer. For example, yesterday I came across two BBC Radioplay discs from the time I was producing them. …
Today would have been the 80th birthday of the Third Programme - BBC Radio 3’s remarkable predecessor. My latest for the BBC marks the occasion with a dip into the programme archives, unearthing some forgotten gems from the Third’s early years…
The Third at 80 – a brief history of the unexpected
Weird and wonderful highlights from the early years of BBC Radio 3’s celebrated forerunner The Third Programme
bbc.co.uk
When he got home and realised it was missing, he logged onto his banking app to cancel his cards, only to discover that, within the last hour he had received four payments of £0.01 each into his account. In the Ref. field for each one was: "Found your" "Wallet in street" "Call me on" "07xxx xxxxxx"
This cartoon is by my esteemed pal @roystoncartoons.bsky.social
Leigh Booker@leighbooker.bsky.social · 2w ago
My main achievement last night was learning how to use ffmpeg to correct Hannover Bars on some old TV frames. Must get out more.
This cause is close to my heart and memory … please consider signing the petition.
Back Workers. Back Our BBC.
Nearly everyone - 94% of adults in the UK - uses the BBC every month. The BBC has an incredible range of TV, audio and digital services - from Planet Earth to the Proms, from BBC Bitesize and The Worl...
megaphone.org.uk
"Collective licensing is the best way of ensuring that smaller rightsholders a& independent talent don’t get swallowed up and that they can be properly paid" We spoke with DCMS Chair Caroline Dinenage about what's impacting writers now - AI, copyright & more. https://ow.ly/7pW150ZQVWO
New fridge/freezer being delivered today … after which life will resume and I shall tackle those problems/tasks that have been understandably delayed.
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
Ever wanted to see how a street looked 100 years ago - right where you're standing now? 🗺️ Our georeferenced maps let you do exactly that. We've got over 600 layers freely available online, with tools to filter, measure, draw, compare and export them.
I am bloody annoyed with people who email tooffer me SEO/Rebuild services, which our website says we don’t want … and then mail again asking why I haven’t responded!
I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.
55 years ago today: the first edition of The Old Grey Whistle Test. A year later, it had a new presenter, whose first day on the job didn't go quite as planned. Much more about the show in Rock & Pop on British TV: The Definitive History, published on Thursday. More details: shorturl.at/dIdDW
Is this AI? Do I care? Either it’s fluid dynamics in action or calculation of fluid dynamics in action. Either is acceptable.
Digital Brain@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 3w agoThis clip is so unexpected it leaves you speechless before you can even say "damn
Dave Gibbons making this point about Lichtenstein made me very happy.
Ste Jormur@stejormur.bsky.social · last mo.I'd never seen this Roy Lichtenstein painting before, but it's incredible how he manages unfailingly to make his copies worse than the original comics he's ripping off.
