Hacks and experiments with cultural heritage content, from James Morley
I was amused (first time it’s happened in ten days, hence no posts lately!) to read this story about an undeniably very odd chap who likes to check out people’s physique it would seem. As a result, he has been convicted of harrassment and as part of his punsihment he 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.
Sea levels are rising to alarming levels, species are threatened with extinction, but if you read the latest news stories it’s getting even worse: we will now have to mow our lawns all year round deadly moths are invading the UK (OK, maybe not) there’s a deadly witch doctor’s plant Read more …
Actually these are fantastic. Can you imagine going for a pee in Kew Gardens and coming across one of these brilliant ‘Art Urinals’?
Drama hit the tranquility of west London last night when Fire sparked overnight evacuation in South Ealing, just down the road from me. The immediate and real drama was for those in the vicinity, including a few friends of ours, who faced a sudden evacuation in the middle of the Read more …
I don’t often read the Stamford Mercury in my quest for botanical news, but in the mysterious way that the web works (or sometimes doesn’t) I found myself at their story Plant mystery solved!. It seems they published a story about a mystery plant (subsequently identified by Kew Gardens as Read more …