 I couldn't resist. Retro British Television. I really didn't want to blog anything today, but I just stumbled about some serious television history which seems to be rather important. In terms of geek history. Or in geek terms of history. Whatever. Now everything you'll read below in this entry is deliberately and shamelessly pulled from the fabulous route79blog:It's good to know that someone out there is preserving history. In this case his name is Dave Jeffery - and the Flash version of the BBC Clock that you see above was reproduced by Dave as part of a BBC commission - the results of which you can see at the BBC I Love TV page on testcards and idents. Furthermore - you will find a whole host of other Flash animations of TV idents by Dave, plus loads of other material pulled together by a chap called Andrew Wiseman by going to 625.uk.com. If you grew up in the 70's and 80's - this site will certainly bring back memories. My favourites from this great site: Remember the ATV Presentation at the end of every ATV programme? Remember the London Weekend Television river animation? Remember the start of an Open University programme on BBC2? Your Cartoonist again: Those are fantastic links. Now could somebody please recreate some old German TV-animations in Flash?
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Lazy Sunday. Not that lazy, in fact I'm busy drawing some cartoons for a book project. And the Wroaaar! Grand Prix is on. Shame that 
The Lego Mac. Daniele Procida could not bear to see a dead Mac thrown away - so he reconstructed it using Lego bricks pinched from his sons. Rather than bin the Powerbook laptop, he refurbished it using hundreds of colourful pieces, set on mottled artificial green grass.
