Archive for May, 2006

Travel-Time Maps, Bravia vs Tango, Christian terminology

Friday, May 26th, 2006

Fascinating travel-time maps indicating how far away you can get from your starting point in given units of time

Compare and contrast :-) [Quicktime]

Useful, if slightly unusual, guide to Christian terminology

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Ant Nests, Dog’s Dinner, Infinite Photomosaics

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

Beautiful, almost sculptural forms made by pouring orthodontal plaster into an empty ant’s nest

Slow down your dog’s eating with the Brake-Fast Dog Food Bowl

Infinite Photomosaics

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Back from New York

Friday, May 19th, 2006

Just a quick post to say I’m now back in the United Kingdom, where I hope to lose some of the weight I must have acquired over the last few weeks.

Thanks to everyone in New York who made me feel welcome.

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Earth Sandwich, Sitayana, Handwriting

Friday, May 19th, 2006

Challenge to make an Earth Sandwich – i.e. a layer of bread on two opposide sides of the planet at the same time…

Sita Sings the Blues – a fabulous animated retelling of the Indian legend “The Ramayana” with musical accompaniment from 1920s blues recordings. I particularly like Chapter 4.

Turn your handwriting into a font

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Interactive Fiction, Identity Theft

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

Wow – a new version of Inform, everyone’s favourite interactive fiction compiler. Now looks to be a rather nifty IDE with a scarily impressive natural language interface. All I need is a few spare months, a creative writing course and some talent, and I can create the next great interactive fiction masterpiece…

How to steal someone’s identity via a boarding card stub

Going bald

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Out of Office Autoreply

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

I am currently in New York for a little while (sadly, on business), so I can’t get to emails sent to my home address. If you know my work address (it’s my first name . my last name @ my company . com) you can get to me there.

I will be posting intelligent and witty observations on America and New York if any occur to me.

Until then, I will be posting random photos as per normal…

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Timestamp, ID, Armadillo

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

Timestamp: early tomorrow morning, the time will be 01:02:03 04/05/06 (at least if you’re not an American who puts the date format the wrong way round)

Advert which (rather blatantly) points out potential problems with identity databases

Armadillo bread bin

Fantastic video from They Might Be Giants [quicktime, or use second link and click on "Bastard"]

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