Sunday Things - non-Olympic edition
posted in Links by Cargo Cult on Sunday July 29 2012
The Sunday Things series continues its unstoppable march with a miscellaneous batch of non-Olympian links this week:


Bonus Soviet Radioactivity corner:
- Surviving Disaster: Chernobyl - Vyvyan Basterd from The Young Ones (sorry) stars in this serious BBC docu-drama about Valery Legasov, a key member of the government's investigatory commission, and his mysterious suicide...
- Chelyabinsk-40 and the implausibly radioactive Lake Karachay. Compare: the Hanford Site.
- Abandoned RTGs on the Kola Peninsula - small image, but when you know what a Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator is, utterly terrifying.
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2. Improbable computers
Posted by Cargo Cult at 7:19PM, Saturday August 11 2012
I went to Bletchley Park the end of last year - the old computers bit was closed that day, so I had to make do with rebuilds of positively *ancient* computers instead:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/twosevenoneonenineeightthreesevenatenzerosix/sets/72157628767212505/
The American version sounds fascinating! I also need to get to Seattle's Museum of Communications:
http://museumofcommunications.org/
Mission Improbable? Nearly got round to posting an article about it on The Other Blog, but ran out of time before disappearing Elsewhere. THE HORROR. Please accept a belated Acolyte of the Day award for your efforts.
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1. more non-Olympic things
Posted by Pace at 11:25AM, Sunday July 29 2012
I suspect you'd love the computer history museum:
http://www.computerhistory.org/
if you're ever down in the bay area again. Surprisingly fun place to go, they have a huge amount of stuff.
In mod news, the third (and final?) part of the second best HL2 mod out there Mission Improbable was just released:
http://missionimprobable.org/