If all of this sounds familiar, it should. (Kids to young to know what Beta is, please read here.)
With the last nail in the coffin of HD DVD laid by Warner and Toshiba withdrawing support for HD DVD, let's take a trip back 20 years (or further) to see what the landscape was for home video.
Enter, Total Rewind, the virtual museum of vintage VCR's.
P.S. I have a slightly used Toshiba A-35 HD-DVD player for sale to the luckiest bidder.
Link. Thanks, Al!
I came across this yesterday while searching for a bit of history of one of the dance floor staples from the early 90's. A user named “statenhal” has digitized and uploaded (to YouTube strangely enough) dance tracks from vinyl. Featured on the left, is Dajae's “U Got Me Up” Cajmere's Underground Goodie Mix (which incidentally is sonically a different song than the original as to hardly retain any traits from the first). This all proves once again that the net giveth until they taketh away.
We planned ahead to make a day trip of traveling to Oxford and visiting BMW Group's Plant Oxford, home of the final assembly of the MINI Cooper and it's variations.
At the start of the tour, you're asked to put on a “lab coat” and safety glasses before you can go inside. We later found out that it was for real protection as we'd be a few feet away from the robots and machinery that moves and welds the body panels together for the car. Sparks did fly!
In the welcome area, there are a couple original Mini's. That's a picture of me next to them so you can get a sense of scale of the original one. (Curious to know how much bigger the new MINI is? See here.)
Also featured was one of the MINI's from The Italian Job. (See inside this car for something unusual, two steering wheels!)
Although we weren't allowed to take pictures during the tour, I've found a web site where someone was obviously allowed to do just that (ok, they're press shots). Take a look at what goes into making the MINI Cooper.
Soundtransit
Low Light Mixes
Quiet American
Shortwave Music
Two full length albums from Deepspace (Mirko Ruckels)
(Photo by Flickr user chillhiro, see original)
One great thing while in London was being able to watch BBC for real (not the sanitized version called BBC America). Among other things such as Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong (Episode 1 p.1, 2, 3, 4) and live uncensored stand up comedy was a documentary about Factory Records called Factory: Manchester from Joy Division to Happy Mondays.
Link to Google Video. (I'm afraid this will probably disappear soon so catch it while you can)
As you are aware, there were no updates on the site for the trip. D'oh. Things didn't go quite as planned on the WiFi side of things.
The hotel claimed to have WiFi enabled in all the rooms. What they forgot to mention was how much they charged for said WiFi. I was naive enough to believe it was free, gratis with the room. Bzzt. The scenario was they farmed the in room internet access out to a company called Swisscom who would gladly charge us