Friday Ephemera

Magpie plays with dog. // Two computers play rock, paper, scissors. // Find the invisible cow, a game to test your patience. // A house made of silk. // Big fin squid. // Blade Runner in watercolours. // A guide to shooting rubber bands. (h/t, MeFi) // Monitor in motion. // Upmarket dog accessories. // How the Doctor Who theme might have sounded without Delia Derbyshire. // Drum kits of yore. (h/t, Coudal) // Factoid of note. // Luxury yacht pod. // Spectrographic handshake. // Diagnostic bee device looks fabulous, detects cancer. 

Comments

[slick willy]

Magpie plays with dog.

Okay, that does it. Everybody get ready for the Rapture...

[Mark]

Thanks for the Delia Derbyshire documentary.

[Joan]

How the Doctor Who theme might have sounded without Delia Derbyshire.

I can't get the bloody thing out of my head now.

[David]

I can’t get the bloody thing out of my head now.

It’s catchy, in a not-very-Doctor Who kind of way. Unless the Doctor drives a Jag, seduces switched-on babes and is played by Peter Wyngarde.

[matt]

Thanks for the squid link. It's my daughter's nickname and she can identify several species from pictures alone. I like trying to trick her with photos of cuttlefish. She's never heard of the very unique big-fin squid, so i can't wait to show her that video tonight.

[David]

Matt, dicentra has a collection of cephalopod images.

[Runcie Balspune]

The Doctor Who theme reminded me of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TQUdcYk82U

[David]

The Doctor Who theme reminded me of…

Ah, the classics. Of my childhood at least.

[Hal]

The Doctor Who theme reminded me of . . .

. . . consider also The Prisoner.

And in parallel compare the general productions of the 1965 What's New Pussycat with the 1967Casino Royale.

I suspect we have a matter of an overall shared sounds of the period . . . .

[ACTOldFart]

The Invisible Cow thing has to be, even by the standards of the internet, the silliest game ever.

[AC1]

I'm pretty sure you'll like this.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/11/the-life-and-times-of-an-elderly-superhero-captured-in-oil-paintings-by-andreas-englund/?src=footer

[David]

I like the high altitude selfie.