Happy Colonial Rebellion Day

  • I’m excited to hear there’s a possibility that outgoing Doctor, David Tennant, might be making a Doctor Who movie.
  • The LRO has started sending Hi-Res images of the Moon’s surface.
  • In honor of the United States of America’s most important day, Wired magazine publishes the same 4th July article that they published last year.
  • I like to call it "Colonial Rebellion Day."
  • Wired also has an interesting interview with Daniel Wegner about his paper on "How to Think, Say, or Do Precisely the Worst Thing for Any Occasion." Just don’t mention the war:

Posted at 6am on Jul 3, 2009 | no comments
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The genesis of the Tardis

William Hartnell as Doctor Who

I’m a big Doctor Who fan, and in fact I remember watching some of the very early William Hartnell episodes from the early 1960′s. I was only born in 1961 so this is pretty good going, and in fact when I recently watched the very first season (which was shown in 1963) I remembered a couple of scenes very clearly — in particular the corridors of the Dalek’s city and the scene where a Dalek’s movements are impaired with a cloak spread on a floor. I can remember a lot of things from when I was two, so this doesn’t surprise me too much.

But I digress. I merely wanted to mention that there’s an interesting article on the BBC news website about some of the decision-making that went into the creation of the show, and some surprising insights into the …

Posted at 8pm on Nov 20, 2008 | no comments
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