- Abandoned London – a set on Flickr
I am so tempted to skip out on family Christmas next year, and produce a set something like this. OK, there's not a chance I would, but still, the set pretty damn impressive anyway.
- English Russia » Abandoned Russian Polar Nuclear Lighthouses (via Warren Ellis)
Like everyone else, I'd never heard of these before. And like all right-thinking people, I do think the entire notion is fascinating. Mouldering hulks of poisonous stone that no longer light up the night. Perfect fodder for a maritime ghost story.
- Photojojo » Sensor Dust Is Evil. Here’s How to Banish It.
Good round up of various cleaning options to remove sensor dust. My old D70s body is a martyr to it, and the D80 is bound to pick up some at some point.
- British Weather Terms
Some interesting old terms in here I hadn;'t run across before that might be useful in the future.
Tag: language
Bookmarks for March 12, 2008
- Chemical brain controls nanobots
This is superb stuff. I for one welcome our new grey goo overlords.
- Zoe Williams: This po-faced rectitude – “If you accept that queer no longer means strange, you need to accept that gay no longer exclusively means homosexual”
I don’t know that I agree with that specific argument (or that Williams does) – one is a reclamation of a derogatory term, the other the reverse – but it’s an interesting read regarding the attempt to police children’s use of language.
- John Bull’s Reggae Kitchen
More cooking programs should be as relaxed and entertainng.