Alive, I be. (There has to be the tradiotional International Talk Like A Pirate Day reference somewhere after all… Life has been busy – with not a huge amount to discuss. Currently I am: working on the website of the school I work in. That began as a lick of paint but ended up as a […]
When I saw the above headline, I had a Metal Sonic image in my head… however, since it is plastered all over the internet at the moment, as the related articles below show, there is some merit in this story which I saw on The Verge. A team of researchers thinks that small, spiked robots […]
National Geographic has produced this set of four wonderful infographics to illustrate the World now that there are 7 billion people living on it. Along side these, they have created the face of 7 billion, an image made up of 7000 human figures, each representing 1000000 people. This image is zoomable on the website to allow you […]
Simply fascinating. This collection by Analytic Graphics Inc. shows real-time (updated every 30 seconds) positions of 13,000 satellites around the Earth. The positions come from a government-sponsored database which shows all satellites. You get the idea that our near-earth space is getting kind of cluttered don’t you? Play with a plug-in here.
As most of you may or may not know, I love maths. I recently discovered Matt Henderson’s site: blog.matthen.com, and love his posts. As he says: I post original stuff about maths, space, computational linguistics and other things that I like. This blog is meant to be accessible andinteresting to people of all backgrounds. Now, for a lot of his posts, you don’t need to […]
Yup, one year to go until the Olympic are held in London. Leeds, however, is significantly far enough away to get away with just acknowledging the fact that it is happening somewhere with a gentle nod and occasionally watching highlights on TV. A few things stand out about this event, and I’ve written about it a few […]
Ian Visits is written by a guy who tends to “write about snippets of history I come across or reviews of lectures/events I have been to.” And one really interesting post that I’ve been meaning to link to for a while is his visit to the London Tube Driver Training Centre. It’s well worth reading. […]
Can you tell whether a book is any good from its cover alone? A fun little game that takes Amazon book reviews and pits 5 star rated ones again 1 1/2 star ones, then asks you to guess which is which based on its cover. Link: Monkeon.co.uk – Judge A Book By Its Cover
I’ve made a Google Calendar listing each and every session for the 2011 Formula One season. As it stands, all 19 rounds and their sessions are listed in their local time – the calendar should convert them to your own time zone for you. If the Bahrain Grand Prix is reinstated or slotted in somewhere, […]
