Rockin' Brian

Today is the last day of term for many schools in the UK, so I thought I'd Google the word "Summer" and see what the best video it came up with was,,,, Not entirely appropriate,  but The Cure with The Last Day of Summer is a good song...

Popurls provides a neat overview of all that's popular on the internet, blog postings, flickr photos, YouTube videos they're all there. If your favourite isn't it is customizable too.

I promised Ann I'd look for something interesting to scan over the weekend, I think this will fit the bill, it's from November 1963...

Trev has now posted his piece on Delia Derbyshire on the Hobo Vox site.
In 1969 Delia and Brian Hodgson at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop worked on John Peel's voice for a Top Gear compilation LP, this was the result...

I took this video at Stockton Cricket Club a couple of weeks ago but when I uploaded it here it looked very blocky. I've been reading about Vimeo's superior bitrate and overall quality so I thought I'd give it a go...

I'm pretty pleased with that, look at this for comparison...

I was reading this article in The Times about Delia Derbyshire, the electronic music pioneer (& mathematician) who arranged and produced Ron Grainer's theme for Dr. Who, when I received an email from Trev highlighting this item on the BBC website on the same subject. Expect to read more on Trev's Hobo site... she was born in Coventry

This is an amateur stop-motion animation from Vimeo's HD channel. Lots of other good stuff there too.

Periodic Videos is a YouTube channel where Nottingham University chemists are posting a short video about each element of the periodic table. Also accessible through their website. Here's Sodium...

Unfortunately they don't seem to have sufficient funds to react Cesium or Rubidium with water. Unlike Brainiac...

Designed to resemble a Baird televisor this kit is available from Middlesex University Teaching Resources for less than £30.

With the fourth series of the new era now concluded, we need something to keep us going until the next. The BBC Mobile site has lots of free ringtones and screensavers for your mobile phone. (Free to download but obviously your network data charges will apply) Here's some rintones...