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hestia8First, a couple of links:
evolver.fm/2013/04/30/how-a-17-year-old-girl-won-a-hackathon-and-what-it-means-for-women-in-tech/
Seventeen year old girl enters Hackathon, wins with hack that kills spoilers on twitter. (from geekfeminism.org/)
champagneandsocks.com/2013/05/05/through-splintered-walls-art-exhibition/
Book launch goes wrong when the top line of each page doesn’t print, so they turn the books in to art (from www.galactisuburbia.podbean.com/, which is a podcast I’ve started listening to recently)
And now, things I have watched recently:
I watched The Raid which I absolutely loved. Possibly somewhat predictably. The premise is very simple - a police squad makes their way into a tenement block run by a crime lord, and then they have to try to get out after the crime lord realises they're there and offers his tenants a bounty if they bring the police to him. There’s a lot of fighting, a high body count and not terribly much plot (most reviews saw this as a bad thing, but actually I liked the plot that was going on *shrug*). Basically if you like The Transporter or District 13 (and really, if not, why don’t you?), give this a go.
Foyle’s War was on quite a while ago now, oops. I actually really enjoyed Foyle after the war, and yes in part that was probably because it satisfied my desire for a FW Spooks au (I’m not being facetious, I did a ton of research on the SOE a few years ago). However I liked Foyle having to negotiate a new situation where he wasn’t entirely comfortable (but was still entirely lovely, obviously) and I really liked the world being opened up a bit more. Also, SAM. And Sam/Adam was fab.
In the Flesh was an utterly wonderful 3 episode miniseries on BBC Three. It had everything - amazing world building, zombies, heartbreak. comedy and some really bad puns. It’s set in the small town of Rawton (I don’t know if we saw this onscreen but I presumed it was Wroughton or something, and therefore did not get the pun until last weekend) and concerns the homecoming of Kieren Walker (WALKER, ahahaha), a PDS sufferer.
PDS stands for Partially Deceased Syndrome - in this world, a cure’s been developed to allow zombies to be rehabilitated and brought home. Unfortunately, not everyone is pleased about this turn of events (I’m not saying anymore because I really recommend everyone watches it).
The details of the world are revealed piece by piece, and it’s one of those series where I could happily read stories involving the characters or just other stories set in that world - it fit together so well and it was so clever and made so much sense! Gosh, talking about this without spoilers is hard. Just watch it. It will break your heart and make you desperate for more.
Scott and Bailey is currently on ITV (well, not next week) and is also excellent. It’s so good to have a crime show that is full of rounded, interesting female characters where the women are definitely in the foreground and the men are definitely the support. And this time round Nicola Walker’s in it and Pippa Haywood is back, which is GREAT. I love her character’s friendship with Gill so much. I’ve also been enjoying the structure of this series, although it’s getting to be infuriating when I get to the end of an episode and there’s a whole week until the next one...
Also on ITV this week was Murder on the Home Front, which was a fun series about a pathologist working in London during the Blitz. It was nothing groundbreaking - I am surprised to find out that it’s based on someone’s memoirs - but it was enjoyable and I’m a bit disappointed it’s only a two-parter. The female characters (Molly and Issy) were a lot of fun.
Wow. I am surprised that I had this much to say, hahahaha.
FYI tonight on ITV there's Life of Crime with Hayley Atwell and one Sunday The Suspicions of Mr Whicher with Paddy Considine and Olivia Colman.
evolver.fm/2013/04/30/how-a-17-year-old-girl-won-a-hackathon-and-what-it-means-for-women-in-tech/
Seventeen year old girl enters Hackathon, wins with hack that kills spoilers on twitter. (from geekfeminism.org/)
champagneandsocks.com/2013/05/05/through-splintered-walls-art-exhibition/
Book launch goes wrong when the top line of each page doesn’t print, so they turn the books in to art (from www.galactisuburbia.podbean.com/, which is a podcast I’ve started listening to recently)
And now, things I have watched recently:
I watched The Raid which I absolutely loved. Possibly somewhat predictably. The premise is very simple - a police squad makes their way into a tenement block run by a crime lord, and then they have to try to get out after the crime lord realises they're there and offers his tenants a bounty if they bring the police to him. There’s a lot of fighting, a high body count and not terribly much plot (most reviews saw this as a bad thing, but actually I liked the plot that was going on *shrug*). Basically if you like The Transporter or District 13 (and really, if not, why don’t you?), give this a go.
Foyle’s War was on quite a while ago now, oops. I actually really enjoyed Foyle after the war, and yes in part that was probably because it satisfied my desire for a FW Spooks au (I’m not being facetious, I did a ton of research on the SOE a few years ago). However I liked Foyle having to negotiate a new situation where he wasn’t entirely comfortable (but was still entirely lovely, obviously) and I really liked the world being opened up a bit more. Also, SAM. And Sam/Adam was fab.
In the Flesh was an utterly wonderful 3 episode miniseries on BBC Three. It had everything - amazing world building, zombies, heartbreak. comedy and some really bad puns. It’s set in the small town of Rawton (I don’t know if we saw this onscreen but I presumed it was Wroughton or something, and therefore did not get the pun until last weekend) and concerns the homecoming of Kieren Walker (WALKER, ahahaha), a PDS sufferer.
PDS stands for Partially Deceased Syndrome - in this world, a cure’s been developed to allow zombies to be rehabilitated and brought home. Unfortunately, not everyone is pleased about this turn of events (I’m not saying anymore because I really recommend everyone watches it).
The details of the world are revealed piece by piece, and it’s one of those series where I could happily read stories involving the characters or just other stories set in that world - it fit together so well and it was so clever and made so much sense! Gosh, talking about this without spoilers is hard. Just watch it. It will break your heart and make you desperate for more.
Scott and Bailey is currently on ITV (well, not next week) and is also excellent. It’s so good to have a crime show that is full of rounded, interesting female characters where the women are definitely in the foreground and the men are definitely the support. And this time round Nicola Walker’s in it and Pippa Haywood is back, which is GREAT. I love her character’s friendship with Gill so much. I’ve also been enjoying the structure of this series, although it’s getting to be infuriating when I get to the end of an episode and there’s a whole week until the next one...
Also on ITV this week was Murder on the Home Front, which was a fun series about a pathologist working in London during the Blitz. It was nothing groundbreaking - I am surprised to find out that it’s based on someone’s memoirs - but it was enjoyable and I’m a bit disappointed it’s only a two-parter. The female characters (Molly and Issy) were a lot of fun.
Wow. I am surprised that I had this much to say, hahahaha.
FYI tonight on ITV there's Life of Crime with Hayley Atwell and one Sunday The Suspicions of Mr Whicher with Paddy Considine and Olivia Colman.
