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Also on this point I fucking LOVE the title sequences for TV shows from the pre-digital age' so much passion going into a lot of them, like these titles for The South Bank Show: youtube.com/watch?v=cVfQB5HSfF

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PSA: Using "female" as a noun to refer to someone, as in "a female," "that female," or "those females," makes you sound like a Ferengi.

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*

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