Steve

[Jon Stone @joncstone]

striking that the UK is now a dead-on typical European country in this regard. these are quite literally the vote shares of British opinion polls

[Steve @NotAdric]

@adamboxer1 A lot of people, including me, were surprised by how viscerally upset they were by yesterday’s events, and I think that’s exactly it: it was like a replay of the worst experience of your life.

[Steve @NotAdric]

@BristOliver Early example of Why Computers Should Be Done Away With right there

[Steve @NotAdric]

@BristOliver TV programmes about CGI often used to show clips from Sunstone (1979), a pioneering work that haunted my dreams https://t.co/rijjJNpHxa

[archivetvmusings @archivetvmus71]

Remembering Frank Muir, born this day in 1920.

[Steve @NotAdric]

@danwaterfield I learned graph theory (which I’ve now all forgotten) from the book by Robin Wilson, Harold’s son. Nice book though I had to conclude it wasn’t my favourite subject - too combinatorial.

[Private Eye Magazine @PrivateEyeNews]

A reader writes…

“The last time I made a submission to Private Eye was in 1968, when I was 15 years old. I received this wonderful response which I still treasure:” 

JOHN CLIVE

[Anthony Bonato @Anthony_Bonato]

"I will teach myself mathematics from books."
The books:

[Mark Rees @reviewwales]

Happy birthday to Ivor The Engine, the little Welsh railway engine from the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company, who first chugged onto our screens today in 1959. Toot-toot! 🚂
#onthisday #wales

[Steve @NotAdric]

I remember watching Northstar and looking forward to the TV series that never materialised.

[archivetvmusings @archivetvmus71]

OTD in 1985. Christmas editions of Grange Hill, Blankety Blank and Stanley Baxter are on BBC1. ITV pops on a TV movie, Northstar, followed by Coming Through.

[𝙉𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙖𝙨 𝙒𝙝𝙮𝙩𝙚 🇪🇺 🇧🇪 @nwbrux]

43 years today since Blake’s 7 ended with (spoiler) the entire regular cast being mown down by the bad guys, surely one of the bleakest endings to a classic sf TV series ever.

[Steve @NotAdric]

@bouledenerfs_ We were watching an old Royal Institution Christmas Lecture the other day and the lecturer - I *think* Eric M Rogers - pronounced ‘molecule’ with the o as in ‘mole’, which I supposed was pedantic attention to classical etymology

[archivetvmusings @archivetvmus71]

OTD in 1974. Z Cars and Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? are on BBC1. ITV has Bless This House and another chance to see Carry On Christmas.

[archivetvmusings @archivetvmus71]

'From all of us, to all of you. A very happy Christmas'. BBC favourites line up in 1981 to offer seasonal greetings.

[Steve @NotAdric]

@garyswilkinson I still have a few CDs from that daft era around 2000 that supposedly couldn’t be played on computers. Don’t think I had any of the Sony ones that essentially installed malware on your machine

[Steve @NotAdric]

@bouledenerfs_ Now all Victorian fiction is available free online I never get round to it

[Steve @NotAdric]

@bouledenerfs_ Back in the 90s I spent a lot of one pound coins on these. Felt very civilised to be able to get classics for next to nothing; read more Victorian fiction than I ever have since.

[Steve @NotAdric]

@danwaterfield

[BBC Archive @BBCArchive]

London's taxi drivers have a reputation like no other thanks in large part to 'the knowledge', their almost encyclopedic recall of every street and building of importance.

Back in 1974, Nationwide's James Hogg met some of those aspiring to become suitably knowledgeable.