cinema

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…

With 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…