- The Technium: Amish Hackers
Absolutely fascinating article on the adoption of new technologies among Amish communities. It doesn't necessarily seem like such a bad way to live, although obviously they'd need to remove God from the business before I'd sign up.
- London architecture – a set on Flickr
Del linked to this set of lovely photos of various buildings in London. And now I'm doing the same, because she's right, it's ace.
Tag: london
Bookmarks for January 29, 2009
- Stephen Fry – Don't Mind Your Language
I'm a bit of a linguistic conservative – my objection to neologisms like "squee" and "woot" is well-documented. But I'm also in firm agreement with Mr Fry here, even if my method of expressing it would be 180 degrees from his own. But then, that's why he's a national treasure and I'm not.
- WebHome < Main < Reprap
I know fuck all about engineering, electronics, or most of the tools this might be useful for. And yet still, I want one.
- London from above, at night – The Big Picture
Some staggeringly beautiful shots of my hometown. There is a small, mean part of me whispering that anyone who was half competant with the right kit and a helicopter could produce these. This is untrue, because he has (I assume) put time, effort and work into getting to a point in his career where it is economically viable for him to do so.
- More of London from above, at night – The Big Picture
More shots by the same photographer. And I know that small mean part of me is dead fucking wrong. These are superbly composed, beautifully shot exposures that evoke feeling and mood, that betray a really bloody good eye. Even were I up there with the right kit, I'm sure I'd miss most of the more interesting shots here.
Bookmarks for January 9, 2009
- Hong Kong at Night
A fucking huge, and fucking lovely, photo of well, exactly what it says. No particular reason to link to it, it's just pretty, that's all.
- Stu Nathan's London Observations
My friend Stu is a bit handy with words, and a lot more aware of the word around him than I am, and he occasionally writes up the interesting people he encounters as he commutes or otherwise goes about his business in London. These are a beautifully rendered, and very real, slice of what life is like in the greatest city on earth. Go and read them.
Bookmarks for January 8, 2009
- 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.
Bookmarks for September 7, 2008
- Welcome to The Shady Old Lady's Guide to London
Ugly as fuck, but this might be a useful site for reference/pocking around odd bits of Londonalia.
- MultiTouch – Modular MultiTouch LCD
Why yes, I do want this quite badly. Even just to use as a monitor/interface – I've gotten so used to slinging windows between virtual desktops that I would absolutely love to be able to do it by hand.
- Pulse Laser: OFF=ON, or, Whatever happened to Availabot?
This is one of those products that I simultaneously thing is quite a cool little representative thing, a genuinely nice idea in human computer interaction, and yet, I cannot see a practical use for. I either have multiple chat windows open, or I'm not using IM. And I just don't see how it'd work for multiple chat windows…
- List of London Gang names
OK, just two links on the subject, then.
- Category:Gangs in London – Wikipedia
Probably a few of these today
Bookmarks for September 4, 2008
- Welcome to The Shady Old Lady’s Guide to London
Ugly as fuck, but this might be a useful site for reference/pocking around odd bits of Londonalia.
Bookmarks for Monday September 1st 2008 through Wednesday September 3rd 2008
- MultiTouch – Modular MultiTouch LCD
Why yes, I do want this quite badly. Even just to use as a monitor/interface – I've gotten so used to slinging windows between virtual desktops that I would absolutely love to be able to do it by hand.
- Pulse Laser: OFF=ON, or, Whatever happened to Availabot?
This is one of those products that I simultaneously thing is quite a cool little representative thing, a genuinely nice idea in human computer interaction, and yet, I cannot see a practical use for. I either have multiple chat windows open, or I'm not using IM. And I just don't see how it'd work for multiple chat windows…
- List of London Gang names
OK, just two links on the subject, then.
- Category:Gangs in London – Wikipedia
Probably a few of these today
Bookmarks for September 1, 2008
- List of London Gang names
OK, just two links on the subject, then.
- Category:Gangs in London – Wikipedia
Probably a few of these today
Bookmarks for July 16, 2008
- Battersea Power Station – A New Energy for London
Well, I know what I’m doing on Saturday.
Bookmarks for July 1, 2008
- Punitive psychiatry in the Soviet Union – Wikipedia
Doing a bit of research. There may be a few links in this vein coming.
- OSNAZ – Wikipedia
I won’t bother to commenting on these, they’re just for me, not stuff I think it’s worth other people looking at, unless you’re facsinated by the nasty bits of Soviet Russia.
- Poison laboratory of the Soviet secret services – Wikipedia
(tags: ussr research poison)
- Pyotr Grigorenko – Wikipedia
(tags: ussr research)
- Oleg Kalugin – Wikipedia
(tags: ussr research)
- A Brief Numerology Of London
Diamond Geezer explains some of the significance of the numbers 1-30 in the context of London