Synth Britannia – Needing some music tonight to distract my pets I was inspired by this recent thread. “Documentary following a generation of post-punk musicians who took the synthesiser from the experimental fringes to the centre of the pop stage.
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While doing research for Video Dames, a video documentary series on female protagonists in video games, Kotaku writer Kate Willaert found an article that would lead her into a rabbit hole of excess and outrageousness – resulting in her creating a histo…
UK grocer Sainsbury’s have digitized and uploaded their entire collection of store-brand packaging materials, mostly dating from the 1950s-1980s. [via @mathowie] The full archive is a surprisingly comprehensive treasure-trove that contains images of n…
Doctor Who wasn’t the only British TV series to start out educational and become its own thing. There’s a reason 1985’s Letters in Wonderland was later renamed Trouble with T-Bag. The following seasons (bar the last) followed a modified formula revolvi…
“We have a vague idea in our head of the “price” of certain accomplishments, how difficult it should be to get a degree, or succeed at a job, or stay in shape, or raise a kid, or build a house. And that vague idea is almost always catastrophically wron…
It’s quite astonishing to learn that Pac-Man was allotted 14-pages in a porn mag whose format was dedicated to nudity, dirty jokes and cigarette ads. Even more surprising is no one complained that he was.
Writer, historical researcher and self-confes…
