I wasn’t really going to get into this one for a couple of years but Roland (10,000 BC, Godzilla, Independence Day) Emmerich has bumped it up my schedule. Next month…
cinema
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Home movies
by JohnWith enough time and access to relatively inexpensive tools it’s now possible for anyone to make a movie with very high production values. I’ve come across a couple of these…
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Forty years ago today my parents sat me down in front of our old black and white television set. The whole family gathered round and on it we watched a…
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Back to the Future (1985) User interface: Delorean Doc Brown’s Delorean is hands down the coolest time machine ever. All that and a sensible user interface. Okay the time control…
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Time Bandits (1981) User interface: The Map Strictly speaking, the user interface was jumping through a hole, but you could only find the holes by using The Map! Terry Gilliam…
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The end goal of the Computus Engine is to build a web application for the interactive exploration of time. One symptom however, of Long Now thinking, is that I’m not…