Hacks and experiments with cultural heritage content, from James Morley
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 …
I do try not to delve into politics and religion, at least not in public, but I’ve just been reading about a place where dinosaurs and humans coexist in a museum display. Now, if evolution had deemed to give humans feathers then I can assure you that mine would be Read more …
These may appear at first glance to be odd bedfellows, but they all seem to share the dubious honour of having received a letter from a Mr Morello, who I have just discovered is a near neighbour of mine. What he does is not something I can easily explain, so Read more …
It turned out to be a bit breezy in london yesterday. A driver was killed by falling tree, Kew Gardens shut to the public over safety fears, and bicycle journeys were taking either half the time or five times as long, depending on which way you were travelling. By coincidence Read more …
I bought a newspaper for the first time in ages yesterday, an early edition of the London Evening Standard, on my way back from finishing the Christmas shopping. I was struck by the way the stories were arranged, and am left asking myself this question: why is it that all Read more …
The title says it all really: Blackberry bush saves skydiver in 15,000ft fall. That’s a juicy plant story if ever I read one. Ouch!!!