No No November
It’s November again. Shit, how did that happen? So it’s time for this again. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG62qcOZK2M] Sorry, I can’t help myself. Seems Rupert, Mike, James and Dan are all having a go too.
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Wife Beater
I saw this earlier (the copy reads: “Buy a special pack and we’ll grow a hedge in the British countryside) and muttered to myself: “If you really want to grow a hedge in the countryside, why don’t you just go and do that, rather than making people pay for your poisonous and habit-forming liquor and…
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Guerilla Street Cleaning
I heard Dougald speak yesterday on the “why don’t you…?” web, the web (immediately recognisable to UK readers of a certain age) that enables us to “turn off the tv set and go and do something less boring instead”. I then saw someone on twitter point to Guerilla Gardening, a site that facilitates small groups…
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Streetview shenanigans
About 10 years ago when I got my first digital camera to play with at work, I considered a project documenting London’s streets. The idea was that you would stand on a street corner and take a picture in each direction, and then upload it to a database with some metadata so that we could…
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urinals
Here’s something half-baked: In the UK, urinals in the gents (God, I can’t wait to be home and to stop having to ask for the mens room or restroom!) flush themselves on a timing mechanism so that (as long as it’s working) it gets washed out every few minutes. Here in the US, there are…
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Epsom Rat Poison
This is a public service request for Epsom & Ewell Borough Council and National Rail. This rat trap has come open behind the fence next to the footpath between the Ebbisham Centre and the Railway line. The bags with poison are marked as such, but that may not be obvious to smaller children or other…
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Passport to Pimlico
At some point in the late seventies or early eighties, the BBC ran a comprehensive season of Ealing Comedies. It stands out as an important part of my adolescent television experience – which many would say explains a lot. A favourite has always been Passport to Pimlico (1949) for the location shots of immediate post-war…
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A little bit of politics for you
Lovely to see the JFDI crew heading for Thomson Reuters again yesterday for #askDC a little talk by David Cameron and then a Q&A that promised to include some questions from Tweeters. It was a re-run with extra manpower and sparkly bits of the Gordon Brown do in the same room at Canary Wharf a…
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Ah! Life.
Just gave a chunk of my time on this planet to the Life Photo Archive. Naturally, I can’t use an image here or everyone would do the same and then photographers wouldn’t get paid and then there’d never be any motivation for photographers to ever go out and capture the world. /* breathe /* Try…
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Power FAIL
I can’t believe that no-one at First Great Western thought about whether these power outlets were usable with the charger from one of the most popular mobile phone handsets, or any other one that isn’t a simple 3 point plug. I hope they do the simple thing which is to turn them upside-down. BTW, this…