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One of the big things I miss about TV from my childhood is now imaginative trailers, idents, and even commercials, were.

Now it all feels bland and cookie cutter, which isn't surpsiring given that there's a million channels and a finite number of viewers.

I noticed that a *lot* of the crawlers/bots we see on www.bbc.co.uk & www.bbc.com are spoofed e.g. a "Meta" crawler coming from 10s of different small ISPs across the world (the real one comes from a Meta ASN).
I deployed a change this morning which adds source ASN validation (alongside user-agent string analysis) to our "known crawlers/bots" classifier & well, the results speak for themselves. Attached graphs show RPS from "known crawlers/bots" to www.bbc.co.uk & www.bbc.com.
#WebDev #BBC #Bots

Clarification; when I say movie poster I meant VHS cover art, lol.

IMO cover art is part of the home movie experience.

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Was just reminded of how a lot of movie DVDs had cover art that was not the movie poster but something more "modern" and how those felt tacky even when they first start doing that, lol

I really enjoy listening to my local community radio station when I'm in the kitchen; it's great hearing stuff that you just wouldn't get on commercial radio, like Taiwanese Folk Metal

was out a lot of today doing some gardening and now I'm a tired werewuff, the sort of tired where your body is really heavy x3

Suddenly reminded that the Japanese artist Osamu Sato (the person behind "LSD: Dream Emulator") released a book called "The Art of Computer Designing: A Black and White Approach" and it's such a great book of how to do digital art with simple shapes.

archive.org/details/satoArtOfC

I don't know if I'll ever finish zhis one as I've kinda run out of steam so here she is

Brain: "Hey did you forget how cool it would be to have a custom wax seal stamp?"
Me: *adds to the list of things to do*

I'm sorry to break it to you but the yoyodyne snakebots are only crawling through staged earthquake rubble for the PR videos. once they get that sweet sweet government contract they'll be installing the venom sprayers to the sensor cluster so that when it's deployed in the trenches it can evoke "shock and awe" in the enemy. it's on the internal roadmap, you see

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