Remembering Max Headroom
Saturday, September 2, 2006
Matt’s post got me remembering coming home from college and seeing some TV Terrorism back in the late 1980s. For just a few seconds, Max Headroom appeared on the TV screen (not the actual TV show), interrupting some regularly scheduled programs. My recollection was that it happened twice, once to PBS (before Doctor Who was [...]
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A Ph.D student in informatics at Indiana University, Kevin is rich in spirit. He wrestles and reads with his kids, does a hilarious Christian Slater imitation and lights up his wife's days. He thinks deeply about many things, including but not limited to basketball, politics, microblogging, parenting, online communities, complex systems and design theory. He didn't, however, think up this profile.
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Matt’s post got me remembering coming home from college and seeing some TV Terrorism back in the late 1980s. For just a few seconds, Max Headroom appeared on the TV screen (not the actual TV show), interrupting some regularly scheduled programs. My recollection was that it happened twice, once to PBS (before Doctor Who was about to start) and once to NBC (during the evening news). I don’t recall it being longer than a few seconds, and I definitely don’t recall any naked bottom paddling, but it was something that stuck to my brain otherwise.
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