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Tick-Tock
What would you do with £1 Million? If you're Inventor John Taylor then you spend the money on building a giant mechanical clock made of gold with no numbers on it which tells the time (but only every 5 minutes) using some blue lights and a giant mechanical grasshopper and you put it on a Cambridge street corner where it will spend the rest of time baffling passers-by and disrupting traffic as crowds gather in the middle of the street to stare at the clock.
I read the story about its unveiling on BBC news yesterday (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7625815.stm) and I was planning to go into town anyway today so I thought I may as well wander past it and have a look. It is an insane-looking thing and almost completely useless as a clock but strangely fascinating nonetheless.
I watched the first episode of Merlin today. I guess it's better than Robin Hood and it's watchable and Eve Myles' witch was quite good (although rather reminiscent of Stardust, which is unfortunate as it mainly reminded me how much Stardust was), that's probably about all the good points I can think of. The storytelling is wearily predictable and didn't really make much sense - the plot relies on Merlin being such an idiot (using magic continually when it is banned, fighting with Arthur not once but twice when both could lead to him being executed) that it's implausible he's survived as long as he had, also it would have made more sense for the witch to try to do something before her son was executed rather than starting to try to do something just after he had his head chopped off. I'll probably still watch more of it, hopefully it will improve.
I read the story about its unveiling on BBC news yesterday (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7625815.stm) and I was planning to go into town anyway today so I thought I may as well wander past it and have a look. It is an insane-looking thing and almost completely useless as a clock but strangely fascinating nonetheless.
I watched the first episode of Merlin today. I guess it's better than Robin Hood and it's watchable and Eve Myles' witch was quite good (although rather reminiscent of Stardust, which is unfortunate as it mainly reminded me how much Stardust was), that's probably about all the good points I can think of. The storytelling is wearily predictable and didn't really make much sense - the plot relies on Merlin being such an idiot (using magic continually when it is banned, fighting with Arthur not once but twice when both could lead to him being executed) that it's implausible he's survived as long as he had, also it would have made more sense for the witch to try to do something before her son was executed rather than starting to try to do something just after he had his head chopped off. I'll probably still watch more of it, hopefully it will improve.
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