A wonderful infographic about the Millennials that I’ve been meaning to post for a long while now. Click for a larger view. [Via FlowTown]
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 […]
The 27 Club is the name of a group of musicians who died at the age of 27. I mention this simply because of Amy Winehouse‘s death last weekend. The members of the 27 Club currently are: Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones; Jimi Hendrix; Janis Joplin; Jim Morrison of The Doors; Kurt Cobain; Amy […]
Back in February, I wrote about the new moveable wing, or Drag Reduction System (DRS), that would be used throughout the year in Formula One for the first time. I wrote this: A pass at the pinnacle of motor sport should be something momentous that should be celebrated in my view. I hope it doesn’t create A pass at […]
Today we went on a little geocaching trip that we had planned for a little while. Back in January, a series of 27 caches was published, 13 in Lepton, 13 in Kirkheaton, plus a bonus cache. Each of the caches being named after Yorkshire cachers – unfortunately not us! Both walks are circular, with parking available near […]
I have spent far too long today getting our Geocaching Statistics page working the way I like it. In the end, I settled on having two separate pages (this makes updating it easier as I can upload the html directly to the server rather than having to feed it into a page). I will work […]
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
It’s been a while since the last one in this occasional series (1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 are here). This video is simply awesome. If the video doesn’t load for whatever reason, here’s the original link.