Lots of excellent new photos of London from above. Number 8 helped me understand what the Regent Street Christmas lights were about. Can the planners have anticipated this shot?
Monthly Archive for January, 2009
Chinese New Year – Welcoming the Ox. More Big Picture extracts. Good to see the Chinese ability to put on a large event isn’t limited to the Olympics, that Liverpool has a thriving China Town and that eclipses are just astonishing.
.ape and .cue. The xAct route worked perfectly in getting a CD image (ape) back to individual files as described in the cue file.
Bad Science looks at the blue bonday myth and debunks it. Jonza noticed this too. So there is no blue monday. Get over it kids.
gigapan: President Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address by David Bergman. 220 images, 59k by 25k pixels. Fantastic stuff. Some great hats on the podium, and lots of happily seated people in the park. I particularly like the artefacts such as the bodiless legs (see the snapshots).
Earth, observed – The Big Picture takes a look at us from above. Well, the planet, anyway. Lots of human impact visible, not so many humans. I loved them all, but have chosen the sand sea in the Arabian Peninsula’s
Arabian Peninsula’s Empty Quarter sand sea
Empty Quarter because I have never seen it before.
So it would have been possible to get the gold out of the coach in the cliffhanger (literally) at the end of The Italian Job. Brilliant stuff.
Search Competition Among Travel Sites sees Juice provide a fascinating insight into their pattern analyser as applied to travel queries in the US.
Lovely chart showing how head- or tail-focused a site is:
Head vs tail queries for top travel sites
The question is how much profit each site makes from its hits. I assume the head-focused sites do thanks to their focus, rather than the scattergun monetisation the long tail sites need.
If you want to know how their neat bubble charts are done, they kindly explain in a later article.