Week 19 of the WWW

Another late post this week. It's been beautiful weather and to be perfectly honest, I've been out a lot rather than in the office. I'm sure you understand. I've now got 30 minutes before dinner is ready and guests arrive (we eat early now we're parent type people), so I'll try and make this post have some kind of coherence. Not that they usually do but who cares?

This video will make you angry. So think calm thoughts. 

We lost Terry Pratchett this week. Very sad news. He's been a figure in most of my life, thanks to my brother who was a big fan. I'll admit I've never read his books. I was never a huge fan of fiction, but I've started to lean that way these days. Despite my not reading his books, I still found his last tweets and the emotional response to his death overwhelming. 

Find out what made Terry, and the rest of us, human, in this very nice parallax site from the beeb. 

I've never been on a cruise ship, but I've always been tempted by it. There's something intriguing about living in a contained area for a certain amount of time. Great for people watching too. 

The mighty, mighty mountains. I've also never been to the Himalayas, and given the choice between them and a cruise ship, I'd get cold any day of the week. 

Here's a taste of Austria. I have been to Austria. Twice, so there. 

Excellent drone footage through the Crossrail tunnels in Loondon. I've never flown a drone, but I did see one crash into a crowd watching a cruise ship dock in Hamburg (apparently it was a very exciting cruise ship. New or something). 

That's it! Go about your weekend. 

Chapter 6 of the World Wide Web

This week is late, and not very long. The reason it's late and not very long is because I became a mother on Thursday. The little gentleman was four days early, so was a bit of a surprise. Seeing as I had been pressuring him for weeks to arrive on the 10th (you know, for 10/12/14), it hardly seems fair to blame him. Anyway. Here is the internet, last week, now. 

I'm afraid we're going to look at space again. I know I go on about space, but just...just...OK? Here is a cinematic tribute to that big old...space out there. Odd that Contact isn't in there. Thought that was very beautiful, and man! Talk about a twist. 

I love this flashback to my youth, in the shape of a cassette tape achieve called Tapedeck. "apedeck.org is a project of neckcns.com, built to showcase the amazing beauty and (sometimes) weirdness found in the designs of the common audio tape cassette."

This is from 2012, but so what if it's old?! 

London's Crossrail project is churning out some stunning images. What I'd give to get into one of those tunnels. 

Mad Max is looking really good. I'm actually looking forward to this. 

Well that's it for this week as I think I have a good excuse so there.