Now you can make a TARDIS pillow-blanket just like the one I got for Christmas. Tabitha has posted this nifty Instructable here.
Make Your Own Bigger-on-the-Inside TARDIS Pillow-Blanket
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She Built a TARDIS – I Like the Video Even More
But I’ve Been Dieting!
Unlike Donna, I haven’t been living in virtual reality. As far as I know. But I have been dieting, and I’ve been using SparkPeople to manage my intake and fitness. This is my third attempt, so this time I’m using the community features as well as the trackers. This means teams and message boards and blogs.
What do you know, I found two Doctor Who themed SparkPeople teams! One focuses on Doctor Who since 2005 and the other is about Doctor Who and Torchwood in general. This is fun! I signed up for one of the team goals as well as my own.
One of the Fast Break goals I chose was to collect one motivational picture per day. This is yet another way I use screencaps. My motivational pictures so far:
I didn’t have access to my caps when I posted this one, so I used a standard BBC desktop:
New Doctor Who Timeline Infographic
Merry Christmas!!! Can’t wait for that Christmas special. Can you? Wow, if tumblr is any indication, millions of people got terrific Doctor Who swag for Christmas.
This is fantastic! Lovely thumbnail sketch of the history of the show with handy facts. Click for the full graphic. A bit big and long, but that’s because it’s mostly bar graph.
I got it from gash26 who got it from cabletv.com, where they have all the episode titles listed as well.
Your Own Psychic Paper
Via The Omega Podcast comes this review of an android app for Psychic Paper.
From what I see, I like it! Too bad I don’t have such a phone.
A Brief History of Time (Travel)
While doing a Google image search, I tripped over this delightful and incredibly handy guide to Doctor Who and spin-offs Torchwood and Sarah Jane Adventures, A Brief History of Time (Travel). I’m bowled over.
It’s all there, from vignettes of the Doctor’s various forms to sketches of his companions to notes on production teams and historical markers. Yet it’s in bite-size easily nibbleable bits with thumbnail images and links to much more in-depth material. So it’s lots, but not overwhelming.
Here are a couple more peeks. Click through to the site itself.
Episode details.
Character and episode summaries.
Quick aside – the summary page for Tenth Doctor Season Twenty-Nine (aka Series Three) has this to say about Jack’s presence in Utopia:
Hearing the TARDIS materialising in Cardiff, Jack forcibly rejoins the Doctor in his travels.
Heh, “forcibly rejoins” made me LOL. That sounds exactly like Jack.
Winter Fun with Daleks, and Other Fun
Hey! A link roundup from the last week
Winter and Christmas
8th Doctor Love
While looking for a good bit of information about the 8th Doctor, I tripped over this gorgeous image of a costume for him for the Time War.
It’s intended to be a transitional piece between his 1996 TV movie outfit and this one that was unveiled last year for some unspecified purpose. It’s actually black, not blue.
Here’s a video with more about the costume.
This Site
Added capability to log in via FB, Google +, tumblr, twitter, Yahoo!, AOL. I started this tumblr, because it’s so easy to share tumblr stuff that way. Have not figured out how to pull my tumblr posts into WP or vice-versa yet – still perusing plugins. I do want to avoid some kind of posting loop, since this blog posts to twitter and the tumblr posts to twitter too.
Bye Bye Ponds
The twitters are all a-nuts about revelation last night that series 7 will be the last for the Ponds and that a new companion will be coming. I don’t have links, but there is also mention that there will be lots of Pond involvement in series 7 and that River will probably recur.
*sniffle*
A Companion to the Doctor’s Companions
I’ve been enjoying Fraser McAlpine’s entries in A Companion to the Doctor’s Companions for BBC America’s Anglophenia blog for some time now, as they contain fun introductory sketches of the various TARDIS-mates over the years. McAlpine includes video clips that illustrate the aspects of the characters and their relationship to the Doctor and draws connections between the classic series and the current one. Very handy!
Stuff I Missed, and Other Stuff
I was so busy two days ago, I totally didn’t get to post this prequel, which is fantastic!
This is probably my favorite of all prequels ever. Hands down. And I really can’t wait for the episode. I need to find out who’s got BBC America so I can ask to borrow their TV and see it in realtime. What I’d really, really like to do is arrange a viewing party but I still haven’t found that many fans in the area. They seem to be a bit closeted or perhaps just unconnected. I hope the Meetup group helps with that a bit. The hard part is getting word of the Meetup group around … So far we have 2 people, and one of them is of course me.
Dig this replica of the coat Amy Pond acquired on the pirate ship in The Curse of the Black Spot. Alien flu-mucus not included.
Recently unearthed: plans for building a Dalek sent from the BBC to a fan.
The twitters are going nuts about the upcoming DW console game The Eternity Clock about which this teaser trailer has been posted. It is a teaser, so there’s not much substance in, but it’ll give you an idea of the graphics, I suppose.
It was all aflitter a few weeks ago about The Gunpowder Plot, about which I negligently did not post. I wanted to see it myself, but download is restricted to the UK, so such folk as me have to purchase it. I don’t really do digital-type game things, so that’s more than I’m likely to ever do. But I do hear good things about it.
Site news: just got done capping the last of Series One. So now I have fresh raw caps of all of these slated for weeding and subsequent posting:
The Curse of the Black SpotApparently I did this one already.- The Doctor’s Wife
- The Rebel Flesh
- Boom Town
- Bad Wolf
- Parting of the Ways
Every time I predict a when for this, I get derailed, so I’ll just say that it’ll be soon as possible. Normally I post reviews and screencaps all in one blow, but time constraints mean that one may hold up the other, and that’s not cool, so the pattern may change a bit.