So, today’s a special day. You don’t know what day it is? Come on, it’s the 5th of November, a day remembered all over the world for it’s explosive impact on history.

Yes, November 5th 1955 was a red letter day in the history of science, it was the day Doc Emmet Brown invented time travel. I’ll let the great man himself explain:

“That was the day I invented time travel. I remember it vividly. I was standing on the edge of my toilet hanging a clock, the porcelain was wet, I slipped, hit my head on the edge of the sink, and when I came to I had revelation. A vision. A picture in my head. A picture of this. This is what makes time travel possible. The flux capacitor.”

54 years ago, my God, has it been that long? Next year will be the 55th anniversary which will please my OCD gene.

I got married last Friday 7th August, and totally unknown to me, transport had been arranged to the church in the form of a DeLorean. A good choice as obviously you can’t be late in one of those.

All I had to do was jump in, set the time circuits for 12:34:56 07.08.09 and I was off.

There’s definitely something going on, as this was the disco at the last wedding I went to:

Despite the flyer’s claim to be able to play music from any time, he was unable to play me any music from the future, although he seemed to have a quite direct link to the early 90s.

Anyway, should I end up in the past, something like this would definitely come in handy…

I must at least visit America in 1955 at some point as I have my own diner in Hill Valley California. Check out the climactic scene in Back to the Future, there’s clearly a ‘Holt’s Diner’ at the end of the street.

Now, all that remains is to go to the future, something’s got to be done about our kids…

Coca-Cola redesigned their packaging a little while ago. I thought it was great, they got rid of all the Photoshopped moisture beads etc and just went back to something classic, simple and clean. Less is more and all that. Well, now Pepsi has fired a return shot in the new Cola design war, but they’ve gone the whole hog, they’ve redone their logo too.

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In true Harry Hill fashion, today’s Back to the Future moment was Bill Turnbull announcing on breakfast news that the winds in part of the UK had reached 88 miles per hour. Great Scott!

This mod for GTA: Vice City looks amazing! It’s a real shame that as a non-PC user I won’t be driving my DeLorean round Vice City anytime soon, but for all you Windows users, it should come as some small consolation…

It makes me realise I’d love to see a great Back to the Future videogame, where you could drive the DeLorean around and manipulate events, a bit like the old Time Machine game from the 90s which I loved. The nearest we’ve got so far apart from the retro offerings, is the awful Universal Studios game originally for Gamecube. For now, stick with the Japanese SNES effort, Super Back to the Future 2…

I want one. There’s a whole range of them over at 2K…