Hmm. Sounds like a posh version of the Basque drink Calimocho which mixes red wine and coca cola.
Archive for April, 2008
How to do your own tilt-and-shift shots without the funky hardware.
No, nothing about footie, I’m afraid. I found it interesting that Pepys was writing at a time when Chelsea was a trip out of London, that the Florentine’s sent a special poison to trial on a hen, a kitten and a dog (they survived, btw). Fascinating view into life at the time.
I don’t think I could read the diaries in one sitting, but this gradual unrolling through a blog is excellent.
I like:
I’m glad I don’t have to do very many presentations any more: simplicity is so much work.
A fantastic Bad Science: vitamin pills (”supplements”) don’t stop you dying. I guess this doesn’t mean that they don’t make you feel better during your (potentially shortened) life? Anyhoo, I read the summary as being “don’t take vitamin pills - use the cash to go for a walk”.
Insects use plants as phones, with subterranean ones communicating with those in the open air.
Local optimisation shows how road networks develop in cities and also biological transport networks.
A spam from OJ brought me the fun news that a Tom Raggett lives in Memphis, TN. Also, there’s a Mike in Beaufort, SC, a Carolyn (sic) in Nashville, TN. NB don’t sign up - the site is geared to emailing your whole email list. The directory is available from the bottom of the home page (I think it is their SEO technique).
You have to watch the movie, but it is worth it. What on earth are we doing allowing people like this to be on TV? Probably the reason I won’t do ChoirWars.
Lovely Bad Science. Made me laugh a lot.
The OGC has a new logo. It’s a cracker. Or is that crack one off? Another poor logo choice.
More juice on how to build a collaborative workplace / how to know if you are likely to be able to.
Nice article describing Amazon’s computing cloud and what a major impact it could have on us.
Lots of deltas in these beautiful Earth photos - for many of the photos I can’t tell what they are without reading the captions.
Rock solid explanation of what Twitter is (with some other excellent subjects) and some useful tips for journalists (and others) who might want to use it.
I’ve been hating the fact that I can only have vibrate OR ring on my otherwise blameless new phone (O2 XDA Orbit 2), and have just found a couple of tips on how to do so.
Final script at HKCU\ControlPanel\Sounds\RingTone0\Script is af1v1w1f1v1w1v0pr. Couple of flash and vibrates then a vibrate and ring. Let’s see if I notice more calls that way.
Genius - what will the line extension gnomes think up next? Yes it is a carbon-copy plus removable post-it pad.
Thanks to Ben for the pointer - genius. As he said “not a title you read every day“.
A Roman Catholic priest who used 1,000 helium balloons to try to break a flying record has gone missing off the southern coast of Brazil
So there would have been a sequel to the Hitchhikers’ Guide game. I used to have to bump my mum off her old Amstrad (PCW-8256, I think) to play the game and only finished it by finding answers on an old bulletin board - well before the full-on internet. Fascinating reading about the internal struggles to get the game not launched.
