New Year.

Never really did give you the round up of other stuff from the past year.  We covered TV and music and didn't cover other types of video content or books and games.  Will have to compile a proper list this year of stuff we enjoyed especially TV and music.

TV because there are still things here I missed out on.

Maya documentary about using LIDAR to discover new ruins in Guatemala.  I know I should get  the proper title from Tivo but I cannot be arsed.  Remembered this as I was watching Reeves and Mortimer's big night out.  Essentially its using Radar on a plane to look through the jungle to find new ruins.  Also.

Reeves and Mortimer's big night in.

Vic n Bob with stances, dances, Ghostbusters, and George Ezra singing with a burning heater on stage with the two interrupting him with requests.  That is what would stick in my mind the best.

Books

Just finished Past Tense Lee Child and can heartily recommend this.  If you like genealogy and a creepy motel in the woods, oh and birdwatching too, you'll not be disappointed.

Can also recommend  Carlos Magdalena Plant Messiah, with his talk on endangered species and his dedication to resurrecting those that are at the edge of extinction.  For cactophiles there is a bit on Graffiti on Neoraimondia in Peru, providing a glimpse of culture and weather back then.  But even if you don't like cacti and its coverage is minimal, there's much more food for thought and asides on everything from island endemics to waterlilies in Australia.  Also a sobering thought at what we could lose, due to climate change and rampant human overpopulation.#

Online Video.and YTP and the state of this.

Like I said before we had a few people killed off by Youtube last year, the entire Tomservo channel got mixed due to some humourless bastard not getting a joke.

Not many landmark videos this year, We already gave you a new Digitiser the Show as part of the TV line up, so I'll direct you there. 

Potholer 54 on a Conservative challenge to climate change is my stand out of the year.  Apparently Thatcher got it whereas Reagan didn't, she foresaw the  world warming at an alarming level and wanted to do stuff about it.  It elaborates on and is quite excellent showing new technology around renewable energy from a side you wouldn't think is pro environmental or just climate sceptic.