Crime maps

Feb. 1st, 2011 05:49 am
wellinghall: (Martians)
Local crime maps in the UK. Interesting or worrying, depending on your point of view, and what you find.

http://www.police.uk/
wellinghall: (Flatcoat)
(1) I think that William and Kate should put the wedding out to tender. Venues would be falling over themselves to host it - think of the extra business they'd get! If the happy couple manage it correctly, they could even turn a profit.

(2) I like today's Matt cartoon.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/matt/

(3) I'm not obsessed by royal weddings, really! So, for your delectation and delight - The ultimate kitten snuggle. Stay with it 'til the reveal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McNRDGwitts&feature=player_embedded
via http://www.boingboing.net/

(4) "This is Battlelore’s first concept album – all the lyrics together tell the story of J.R.R. Tolkien’s tragic hero Túrin Turambar and his kin." How depressing is that?
http://www.thegauntlet.com/article/907/20450/Battlelore-issue-update.html

(5) Come to Loughborough in 2012!
http://once-upon-a-hobbit.blogspot.com/2010/11/return-of-ring-celebrating-tolkien-in.html
http://sf-fantasy-legend.blogspot.com/2010/11/cfp-return-of-ring-111111-loughborough.html

(6) We had a good look at a fox two evenings ago.

(7) A waxwing has made it down to Bristol! I hope it hangs around for a bit (or goes back to get its friends).

Links

Oct. 27th, 2010 07:03 pm
wellinghall: (Badger)
"Making moral judgements: a survey"
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/387740/a36c07b73eae
It's from a friend of a friend; it's quick, it's easy, and it's interesting.

"Unpopular Science
Whether we like it or not, human life is subject to the universal laws of physics."
http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/25/unpopular-science/
Very funny (and you might even learn a bit of physics).

And a fun book-toppling video
wellinghall: (Oscar)
The ultimate exposure computer (for [livejournal.com profile] muuranker and others who want to learn more about photography)
http://www.fredparker.com/ultexp1.htm

The Elements for iPad (someone should do an app for the periodic table of Elvish names)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPUWbVLzVZI&feature=player_embedded

Klein hats and moebius scarves - just what you need to keep warm this winter
http://www.kleinbottle.com/klein_bottle_hats.htm#HatandScarf

A clever optical illusion
http://www.scientificamerican.com/media/inline/blog/Image/CurveBallShapiroIC2009.swf

How to make porridge in a pumpkin
http://www.cookingwithmykid.com/recipes/baked-pumpkin-oatmeal/

Confessions of a Used-Book Salesman
http://www.slate.com/id/2268000

Some links

Oct. 3rd, 2010 09:38 am
wellinghall: (Badger)
"Don't Be Ugly By Accident"; which is actually about photography
http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/dont-be-ugly-by-accident/

"Too Many Books and Never Enough", Wayne Hammond and Christina Scull's blog
http://wayneandchristina.wordpress.com/

JRR Tolkien's letter to the OED on the word "Hobbit"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adventuresinlibrarianship/500219699/sizes/o/in/photostream/

List of resolutions found in a bar
http://www.boingboing.net/images/photo_redacts.jpg

Dr Seuss Unorthodox Taxidermy
http://cgi.ebay.com/Dr-SEUSS-Unorthodox-Taxidermy-circa-1938-/320523813861

Margaret Attwood and Ursula K le Guin
http://www.urbanhonking.com/spacecanon/2010/09/margaret-atwood-ursula-k-legui.html

Ansible 279, October 2010
http://news.ansible.co.uk/a279.html

"Please note that the usual emailed version has not been sent out, because some hidden hand has pulled the plug on the long-established Ansible mailing list server. New arrangements will be investigated. Watch this space."
http://news.ansible.co.uk/

[livejournal.com profile] crazyscot's excellent "Middle-earth weather forceast".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-Y0DY0zNzk

JRR Tolkien on Film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUtCtuZIAcE&feature=related

UK claims mattress domino toppling record
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11459365
wellinghall: (Martians)
http://improbable.com/ig/

via http://www.boingboing.net/

The Guardian's take ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/oct/01/ig-nobel-awards-mould-bats

ETA: A bottle which lay hidden in Clifton Rocks Railway since the 1940s has a story to tell about Bristol.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/bristol/hi/front_page/newsid_9027000/9027533.stm

ETA2: From this month's Ansible: Outraged Letters. Charlie Stross shares an all too familiar artistic experience: 'My editor at Ace just emailed me the art department's idea of a cover for Rule 34. / My reply was along the lines of: "You know it's set in Scotland? Handguns are illegal here. Also: policewomen don't usually wear red leather corsets on duty ..."'

More links

Apr. 27th, 2010 07:31 pm
wellinghall: (Ferret)
Swedish Keyboard Legend Bo Hansson Passes Away Aged 67
http://mog.com/blog_post/content/265/1933326

“Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics” : The Brilliant Essay that Broke Beowulf Studies
Michael DC Drout
http://www.lotrplaza.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=237825&PN=1

Peter Watts is free
http://davidnickle.blogspot.com/2010/04/peter-watts-is-free.html

Doctors make game out of learning infection control
http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2010/04/26/bisa0426.htm
wellinghall: (Firefly)
Driver blames UFO for failure to pay parking fine
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8614134.stm

Doctor Who regeneration was "modelled on LSD trips"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8616413.stm

Doctor Who "was behind UK space agency logo"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/doctor-who/7518521/Doctor-Who-was-behind-UK-space-agency-logo.html

Year of the Plank: remembering Douglas Adams
http://yearoftheplank.com/

Tolkien linguistics draws praise from best seller Martin
http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2010/04/13/36166-tolkien-linguistics-draws-praise-from-best-seller-martin/
http://grrm.livejournal.com/148593.html

Blog them out of the Stone Age: WWII counter-factuals
http://warhistorian.org/wordpress/?p=2336

HarperCollins have re-launched their Tolkien website
http://www.tolkien.co.uk/Pages/Home.aspx
wellinghall: (Otter)
Today's Matt offers a different take on the swine flu scare:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/matt/

Oxford Arthurians might want to read this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/8022291.stm

Thirty-five favourite children's books:
List behind the cut )
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/children/article6181796.ece

"A replica 16th Century junk has sunk off Taiwan, one day short of completing an epic voyage to the US and back. The Ming dynasty-style Princess Taiping was trying to prove that China's greatest admiral, Zheng He, could have reached North America 600 years ago."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8020206.stm

"A three-seater outside toilet in Kent has been listed as a building of special architectural and historical importance."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7251752.stm

ETA: The art of Penguin science fiction:
http://www.penguinsciencefiction.org/
wellinghall: (Alex)
Military penguin becomes a "Sir"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7562773.stm

Eight ugly watches that might tell the time
http://inventorspot.com/articles/8_ugly_watches_that_might_tell_the_time_14955

Pension accounting rules must reflect the uncertainties in the pension promise
http://www.cass.city.ac.uk/media/stories/story_77_18491_96639.html

Another busy year for archaeology on Orkney
http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/003043.html

ETA: Boing Boing's Christmas present guides:

for children, featuring "Baby's first mythos": Cthluhoid picture book:
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/11/26/boing-boings-holiday.html

fiction, featuring "Futures from Nature", edited by Henry Gee
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/11/27/boing-boings-holiday-1.html
wellinghall: (Firefly)
New lifeline for Bletchley Park
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7710966.stm

Featured Book Review: Fast Ships, Black Sails
"Araminta, or, The Wreck of the Amphidrake by Naomi Novik, which is the best story in the collection. In this wondrously written tale, Novik shows to what lengths the Lady Araminta will go to escape the constraints her future society have placed upon her life."
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/books/features/article_1439654.php/Featured_Book_Review_Fast_Ships_Black_Sails_

How useless is a Chocolate Teapot?
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/kitchen-science/exp/how-useless-is-a-chocolate-teapot/
wellinghall: (Flatcoat)
I am now the happy owner of a copy of Leeds University Verse 1914 - 24 :-)

In other news, this is a very clever (and, having just seen him on TV, a very bouncy) doggy.

And having watched the Powell & Pressberger film A Matter of Life and Death yesterday, I was struck by the opening sequence; it rather reminded me of the opening sequence of The Clangers!

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