May 2009
17 posts
Shakespeare's Monkey →
It might take a few million years and a few million “monkeys” (read visits) but they will randomly generate poetry, they will!
My Kingdom For A Beer: Outline of a European... →
Via azurlune. Extraordinary 1990s map drawn up by Freddy Heineken (of the beer) illustrating how a post-Maastricht European superstate could be comprised of new sub-national states, each formed with a basis in history and geography. So England would divided into such regions as Mercia-Birmingham and London-Essex. Population behemoths include Baden-Wurtemburg-Stuttgartt (9.6 million people),...
My Problem With Twitter
It occured to me the other day that my tweet stream is horribly boring and that ergo my life is a sad and pale reflection of the glamorous and/or clever and well informed lives of those I follow.
On further reflection I actually started to think that maybe my life wasn’t so boring; I do get out every now and again, and do get a bit of travel here and there, the odd brush of serendipity, the...
Panoramic Landscapes →
This is probably on Digg and everywhere but I just came across it while playing with semantic web app Twine. Suffice to say these incredibly immersive landscapes are a) stunning within themselves and b) stunningly demonstrate what the web can do in terms of geography. One day, before we live in a virtual world, Google Street View will look like this.
MMMMound →
Via b3ta. Weirdly compulsive viewing. Just pictures of mounds of stuff. Thats it.
Epidemiology →
We will probably be hearing a lot more about this, so I thought I should actually know what it means:
Epidemiology is the study of factors affecting the health and illness of populations, and serves as the foundation and logic of interventions made in the interest of public health and preventive medicine. It is considered a cornerstone methodology of public health research, and is highly regarded...
Internet Age Writing Syllabus and Course Overview →