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Catching The Rain

Hacks and experiments with cultural heritage content, from James Morley

Tag: bbc

21 March 200721 March 2007

Just what is Yorkshire forced indoor rhubarb?

Well, I knew the answer to that one as posed on the BBC website, but I confess I’d never heard of the Lincolnshire Rhubarb Triangle. Any Bermuda connections? Or do you think they’re just trying to trade off the name?

Plants in the news, No Comments
17 October 200617 October 2006

Lookout knockhead, this is Chinglish

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.

On the web, Silly bits, 1 Comment
10 October 200610 October 2006

Trapping hackers in the honeypot – yeah, right

Why is it that some reporters, including those writing for the BBC – Trapping hackers in the honeypot – seem compelled to sensationalise stories just to get people to read them? At best this one could be regarded as trying to oversimplify things so much for the non-techno-knowledgable but just Read more …

Rants, No Comments
29 September 20063 October 2006

Friday dilemna – stay in, or go out?

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 …

Silly bits, Where I live, No Comments
27 September 200628 September 2006

What, you can eat wild plants?

The BBC seems very proud to reveal that blackberries grow on plants and not in plastic punnets. Their BBC Audio slideshow: Food from the wild is portrayed as being something that is a great revelation of a dying past-time. Maybe it’s sitting in the concrete jungle that is White City Read more …

Plants in the news, No Comments
26 September 200626 September 2006

Anti-junk mail postie loses round – revenge

I read with dismay the story Anti-junk mail postie loses round on the BBC news site. But my devious mind immediately turned to thoughts of how to let the post office know just how annoying junk (e)mail can be, and to my surprise very quickly found a direct email address Read more …

Rants, 1 Comment

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