August 2009
35 posts
“all string music in medieval time was written in ones and nothings - in binary”
– Medieval musician didn’t write down their music because they were more like skilled Jazz musicians who spontaniously ‘jammed’.
For 500 years, this carving on a castle ceiling hid a magical musical secret. Then one man solved the Da Tinkey Code | Mail Online
“the New Orleans Police Department stripped a Cadillac dealership of its cars,...”
– How History is created by the Media. Not truth (what the police did) but on what sells best (feral gangs). Four years on, Katrina remains cursed by rumour, cliche, lies and racism | Rebecca Solnit | Comment is free | The Guardian
“the Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan – blown up by the Taliban in 2001 – as...”
– 3D Laser Scanning of Heritage Sites
Scottish laser pioneers lead way in preserving world heritage treasures |
Environment |
The Observer
Where's your headache at? | Life and style... →
A short description of different types of headache and possible causes.
“wooing reviewers to talk the book up”
– Using a free ebook as part of a printed book launch.
Why free ebooks should be part of the plot for writers | Cory Doctorow | Technology | The Guardian
“Gibbons uses Photoshop software on his Mac, and Manga Studio”
– Guardian Interview with Dave Gibbons. There is a video on him working here:
http://vimeo.com/4591813
Watchmen’s Dave Gibbons on graphic art, computers and the dreaded Comic Sans | Technology | The Guardian
“Dzerzhinsky, in a brown leather coat, stood with bent head like a Franciscan...”
– Insightful observations in a handful of words by Arthur Ransome
The day all Moscow came to bury Lenin |
The Guardian
“preparing an evening lecture when he noticed that a compass needle moved away...”
– Be open to the unknown and grasp it when you see it.
Google Doodled: Hans Christian Ørsted (1777-1851) | Technology | guardian.co.uk
“To power users it feels like Wikipedia operates in the way it always has –...”
– If you are an occasional editor, you have a 25% chance of being deleted.
The ‘wall’ of entering a social network.
Wikipedia enters a new chapter | Technology | The Guardian
“Using the interlocking web of citations you can see how this happened. A small...”
– How to spread misinformation and get everyone quoting it as ‘fact’.
Bad science: Hit and myth: curse of the ghostwriters | Comment is free | The Guardian
“Finds like this highlight the complexity of mortuary practices in the mesolithic...”
– Kents Cavern bone hints at prehistoric Devon cannibals | Science | guardian.co.uk
“The skulls of scores of young men [believed to be almost 2,000 years old] have...”
– Archaeologists find skulls on route of new road | Science | guardian.co.uk
“Dr Barrett says the heaters could be switched on and off rapidly to compensate...”
– Renewable energy: Hot tub technology to the rescue? | Technology | The Guardian
British Library publishes online archive of... →
Buy a 24-hour pass for £6.99 allowing you to view up to 100 articles, or a seven-day pass with 200 article views for £9.99
Digital film: An £8,000 projector ushers in the... →
Technology opening the door to the Independent
“…the video – entitled Adventures of Mr Hudson in Russia – mysteriously...”
– Free to view, pay with your job.
UK envoy quits after sex video surfaces on Russia website | World news | The Guardian
Crime and punishment: records of 19th-century... →
Available through ancestry.co.uk
“…keeping our arms still as we stroll burns up 12% more energy than...”
– Plus two bags of shopping, it must be more.
Out on a limb: science unveils secrets of swing | Science | The Guardian
“Dance brings my culture back to me”
– True for any culture. Worth remembering.
‘Dance brings my culture back to me’ | Aditya Chakrabortty | Stage | The Guardian
TheTumbler:
TheTumbler version 2 has change a lot since I last tried it (version 0.9). It still has a sparce interface but with more extras. Now, you can use it to reply to your Disqus account comments (even if they are on different sites) [Update: the replies appear as an unclaimed Disqus Guest comment and not my logged in Disqus account], use InstaPaper to allow later reading of Followed posts and use...
July 2009
27 posts
Gossip has an origin but not a destination