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Transportation via CSS3

oneswellfoop — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:19:18 -0800

CSS Tube Map , a re-creation of the iconic map of London Underground routes, rendered entirely with HTML5 and CSS3*.
If you'd like a more compact** means of getting around, here is a CSS TARDIS.
Or if you'd just like to forego the CSS in favor of something more solid, here's a Tube Map made of Lego on display at several stations.
* "for use with webkit browsers, such as Chrome and Safari - Firefox is also supported", sorry IE
**at least on the outside... but the outside is all that it shows

Dinosaurs are still alive!

vrakatar — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:43:24 -0800

Dinosaur Jr. live at Umass 1986. Murph had hair!

KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHERFUCKERS!

dunkadunc — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:45:42 -0800

In 1987, The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu hit the British music scene with a collage of unauthorised samples, beatboxing, and cryptic, political Scottish-accented raps titled "All You Need Is Love". Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, under the assumed names "Kingboy D" and "Rockman Rock", sequenced the single on an Apple II, and quickly followed the single with the sample-heavy debut hip-hop album "1987 (What The Fuck Is Going On?)". In 1988, they renamed themselves "Time Boy" and "Lord Rock" to release "Doctorin' The Tardis" as The Timelords.
Mashing up the Doctor Who theme, Gary Glitter's "Rock And Roll (Part Two)", "Blockbuster!" by Sweet and "Let's Get Together Tonite" by Steve Walsh, The Timelords reached #1 on the UK Singles Chart. Drummond and Cauty followed Doctorin' with the 1989 book The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way), which was used by Edelweiss and Chumbawamba to great effect. Drummond and Cauty first released as the KLF in 1988 with "Burn The Beat", marking a sharp left veer toward house music, followed by the anthems "What Time is Love?", "3 AM Eternal", "Last Train to Trancentral", and "It's Grim Up North". By 1991, the KLF was the biggest-selling singles act in the world. They worked on- but never released- an ambitious road movie titled The White Room, as well as two shorter films titled The Rites of Mu and The Stadium House Trilogy. On 12 February 1992 at the British Phonographic Industry's annual BRIT Awards, the KLF performed "3AM Eternal" live together with the crust punk group Extreme Noise Terror in what was later described as a "violently antagonistic performance", machine-gunning blanks in front of bewildered music industry executives. As the performance concluded, the KLF's promoter announced "The KLF have now left the music business". Following their bombastic exit, Drummond and Cauty formed the the K Foundation, which culminated a series of KLF-lucre-funded Situationalist stunts by going to the Scottish island of Jura and burning £1,000,000 in cash. After exiting the music business and promising not to return, the KLF came out of retirement with the electronic protest song "Fuck The Millenium", featuring brass bands. Bill Drummond has since expressed concern about subpar funerals and a love for damsons, while Drummond and Cauty both have resolved to only answer 100 more questions. Further Listening:
The KLF - Chill Out
The KLF - Space
The KLF - White Room soundtrack

I'll see your model space ship and raise you....

Kid Charlemagne — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 01:49:20 -0800

In a sea of plastic USS Enterprise and Millennium Falcon model kits, models of the Doctor's TARDIS tend to be paper craft, DIY affairs or Cookie Jars, and imperfectly reflect some of the craft's more notable attributes. Until now.

Sent by the Guardian to Recover the Key to Time

zarq — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:04:28 -0800

The Doctor Who Timeline Infographic (Spoiler Alert!) Others, by Bob Canada (from his flickr stream, which contains many Doctor Who-related drawings): * TARDIS Word Cloud * The Doctor Who Infographic * Evolution of the Cybermen * The Doctor Who Enemies Infographic * A Guide to Doctor Who Team-Ups * Memorable Moments in Whostory: Pyramids of Mars * Memorable Moments in Whostory: Earthshock

"It was my skirt and my husband and your glass floor."

zarq — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 19:30:34 -0800

Last month, the BBC's Comic Relief Night (Red Nose Day, previously) featured the premiere of a two-part mini-sketch from "Doctor Who" penned by current showrunner Steven Moffat: Time and Space. Previous minisodes, also for charity: * Dimensions in Time: Parts 1 and 2 (1993) * Doctor Who and the Curse of the Fatal Death: Parts 1 and 2 (1999) * Born Again (2005) and * Time Crash (2007)

A 1963 blue police box

Artw — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:36:20 -0800

Meanwhile in the TARDIS - two bonus ‘mini-episodes’ from the fifth season of doctor who. Can't wait to see the next season? If you're overseas it may get to you a bit quicker, as the BBCs iPlayer goes international. Bonus link: Amy Pond by way of Alphonse Mucha, by Bill Mudron.

Multiverses collide

jbickers — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:37:25 -0800

Multiverses collide this week with the publication of "The Coming of the Terraphiles," the first canonical Doctor Who story written by the legendary Michael Moorcock. The Doctor, and Moorcock, previously on the blue.

It's Fun to be President.

oneirodynia — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:58:38 -0800

Barack Obama Looks at Awesome Things. Way better than A History of Obama Feigning Interest in Mundane Things.

The Who we never knew

Artw — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:39:46 -0800

The Russell T. Davis papers – As he prepares to leave the role of Doctor Who show runner (previously) he’s releasing a book of email exchanges with Doctor Who Magazine writer Benjamin Cook about his time on the longstanding British SF series, revealing the younger face of Who he’s like to see, and plans for a Doctor Who/Harry Potter crossover which never materialized.

'The new Doctor... He's so young!'

jbickers — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:48:48 -0800

Doctor Who fun and games. While you wait for Series 3 to start - and toss and turn wondering who the next Doctor will be - blow a little bit of time with K-9, the Daleks and the Slitheen.

MAME TARDIS

jonson — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:28:34 -0800

How could you make the TARDIS even cooler? First, strip away the whole "bigger on the inside than the out" part, and second, get rid of the ability to travel in space & time. Finally, add the ability to play every arcade videogame ever invented.

Anyone for tardis tennis?

biffa — Fri, 04 Jul 2003 07:38:56 -0800

Anyone for tardis tennis? Not much of an FPP, but its Friday and its Flash and its mildly irritating fun.

The TARDIS hung there in space, exactly as a brick wouldnt.

blue_beetle — Sat, 03 May 2003 03:57:35 -0800

Dr. Who Shada Episode by Douglas Adams Flash or Real Player