TARDIS

Bonjour mes petits Geeks et Geekettes.

I shouldn't have found this if not for my good friend fencingsculptor, who has posted these on his own journal.

He is a fey creature, though and friends locks his entries. Publicity whores such as me have no such scruples, so here are three pictures of the redesigned TARDIS interior for the new season commencing on Saturday 3 April at 6.20 on BBC1, starting with the episode The Eleventh Hour.

( If you don't want the spoiler, don't look behind the cut. )

These rate as 'officially groovy' on the caddyman scale of grooviness.

TARDIS

Bonjour mes petits Geeks et Geekettes.

I shouldn't have found this if not for my good friend fencingsculptor, who has posted these on his own journal.

He is a fey creature, though and friends locks his entries. Publicity whores such as me have no such scruples, so here are three pictures of the redesigned TARDIS interior for the new season commencing on Saturday 3 April at 6.20 on BBC1, starting with the episode The Eleventh Hour.

( If you don't want the spoiler, don't look behind the cut. )

These rate as 'officially groovy' on the caddyman scale of grooviness.

Swiss Roll

I have been following the powering up and operation of the Large Hadron Collider on Twitter. It has been quite informative.

Firstly, Professor Brian Cox (@ProfBrianCox) has threatened to chin the next person who mentions ‘black holes’. This was some time ago now, so either he was fibbing, or someone has a sore jaw about now.

Secondly, the CERN Twitterer (@CERN) is clearly undergoing looped nerdgasm. As the beams stabilized and the first collisions were recorded, CERN’s output of exclamation marks briefly outstripped the legendary levels achieved by Stan Lee at the height of Marvelmania in the 1960s. Many commentators, you correspondent included, assumed that those levels could never again be achieved; modern health and safety provisions simply would never again allow the implementation of the necessary conditions. Modern technology is wonderful.

The most disappointing aspect of the Collider’s performance is that Switzerland so far, has stubbornly resisted all attempts to transmute into custard.

The most interesting coincidence is that it apparently started snowing in Ireland when the LHC was powered up. I think we should record all events as at 11:45 BST today to see if we can identify a bandwagon developing…

In unrelated news, I have consumed nothing but pizza, coke and coffee in each of my three meals starting at 20:00 last night. I feel unaccountably squiffy.

Swiss Roll

I have been following the powering up and operation of the Large Hadron Collider on Twitter. It has been quite informative.

Firstly, Professor Brian Cox (@ProfBrianCox) has threatened to chin the next person who mentions ‘black holes’. This was some time ago now, so either he was fibbing, or someone has a sore jaw about now.

Secondly, the CERN Twitterer (@CERN) is clearly undergoing looped nerdgasm. As the beams stabilized and the first collisions were recorded, CERN’s output of exclamation marks briefly outstripped the legendary levels achieved by Stan Lee at the height of Marvelmania in the 1960s. Many commentators, you correspondent included, assumed that those levels could never again be achieved; modern health and safety provisions simply would never again allow the implementation of the necessary conditions. Modern technology is wonderful.

The most disappointing aspect of the Collider’s performance is that Switzerland so far, has stubbornly resisted all attempts to transmute into custard.

The most interesting coincidence is that it apparently started snowing in Ireland when the LHC was powered up. I think we should record all events as at 11:45 BST today to see if we can identify a bandwagon developing…

In unrelated news, I have consumed nothing but pizza, coke and coffee in each of my three meals starting at 20:00 last night. I feel unaccountably squiffy.