Dragon, Dragon, the Clangers are your special friend (video screenshot)
Directly from the Department of Strange Bedfellows, Iron Maiden's (re-scoring of) The Clangers (1969 episode of "The Egg"). Confused? Just grab yourself a bowl of soup, and have a look-see at Major Clanger's eponysterical post. (PS, yes, we have reports of Clangers fan fiction, too!).
"This site contains all 146 of the original Computer Literacy Project programmes plus 121 related programmes, broken down into 2,509 categorised, searchable clips": Jessamyn posted BBC's amazing The Computer Literacy Project, 1980-1989.
signal posted Ludicity's peppery thoughts about AI grifting and attendant ubiquitous bluesky ML/LLM technobabble burnout, and the Mefi community is feeling it. Likewise sweary, Lucy Mangan's Guardian review of BBC's "The Stormtrooper Scandal" about just one of the grubby, greedy tales arising from the great NFT racket, posted by ec2y. Ahhh, NFTs. 'member them? (HT to fiercekitten for the post title)
Happy Throwback Thursday! This week we're hitting up the internet archive for the radio dramas that the BBC has been produced for close to a century, thanks to this post by gwint!
halloween cat by silversolo (cc by)
Hallo, weenies! Mefi posters are celebrating spooky season with a hoard of horrorfying and macabre media. Hope you survive enjoy!
Best Books To Read For Halloween (we love the member recommendations in comments, too)
The 25 best horror movies since 2000 (Mefites might have a few Opinions)
13 Old Time Radio dramas to scare the pants off you
1970s BBC Radio's The Price of Fear with Vincent Price
Grainy, Spooky, Streaming VHS rips of classic 80s horror movies
Triggerfinger's big collection of Horror and Chill
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