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Take Five

March 19th, 2009

Take Five, from SanFran based jazz band, The Dave Brubeck Quartet‘s 1959 album, Time Out. It was also the title track to the brilliant British television show, The Secret Life of Machines, which I have previously written about.

Get the MP3 here.

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The Secret Life of Machines

December 19th, 2008

The Secret Life of MachinesI recently found this little piece of gold on ‘teh internets’.

Its a show called The Secret Life of Machines, originally produced for Channel 4 in the United Kingdom,  and is something everyone should watch right now.

These days we are quite jaded by the mind boggling 3D graphics, exploded views and general high-tech smoke and mirrors of shows on Discovery Channel and the likes, but you have to watch this show from 1988 (Thats two decades ago) to realise how simple and yet riveting a show about how things work can be. Read more…

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