I happened to see a quote from Alfred Hitchcock which gave me the inspiration to make a retro “movie style” poster
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Hitchcock Retro Poster
Posted in Art with tags Art, Cool Stuff, Gimp, movies, Retro on January 9, 2009 by misterjrtaylorThe Space Elevator: What a fantastically ridiculous idea!
Posted in Cool Stuff, Humour with tags Cool Stuff, technology on January 6, 2009 by misterjrtaylorAlthough its a very old idea, I just found this today… basically you have a space station (or similar) in a geostationary orbit and extend a cable 35, 000 km down to the surface. Elevators will then travel up and down the cable to and from space. Genius!
More over at wikipedia
Stop Press! The people at LiftPort Group intend on launching the thing on October 27, 2031 – pencil that in your diary!
Retro Grunge Goldfrapp Poster
Posted in Art, Music with tags Art, Cool Stuff, Gimp, goldfrapp, Music on January 4, 2009 by misterjrtaylor
Re-living my youth…
Posted in Games with tags Cool Stuff, Games, googling on January 4, 2009 by misterjrtaylorAfter chatting with some mate the other night about the old computer games we used to play, I did some googling and came across this little goldmine! Abandonia It’s basically downloads of all the cool old games you played as a kid. Superb!
A little further digging turned up the motherload – Frontier: Elite II available from the Elite Club guess how I’m spending the next few nights!
