Hacks and experiments with cultural heritage content, from James Morley
Whilst I still work in an organisation with science at its core, I don’t often regret having left my first role as an actual, real, bona fide scientist. But when I read someone like Charlie Brooker standing up for scientists (Science is like a good friend: sometimes it tells you Read more …
Introducing www.WhatsThatPicture.com…. My personal interest in vintage photographs has inspired me to conceive a new website, called “What’s That Picture?” In my own rather random collections I have been struck by how many photographs simply have no provenance, yet look as though someone, somewhere, should certainly know where or perhaps Read more …
So, Time Magazine has named ‘You’, or is that ‘Us’, as person of the year. Is there a cash prize?
I’ve just discovered that Google has launched its own blog search. Not quite sure how they determine what a blog is to get their data, but I gave up worrying when I rather vainly checked and found that catchingtherain was indexed. For a sample search i also had a look Read more …
As a collector of silly signs the BBC piece Beijing stamps out poor English struck a chord and gave me much amusement. The Chinglish photo pool on Flickr is a real ‘must see’. And if you wondered where the tile of this post came from, see this one.
Blimey, these are hard!