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Category: interesting

  • Google Street View, Cardiff, UK

    Yesterday I bumped into a Google Street View car while it was capturing images in Cardiff Bay (UK). Unfortunately I was initially confused at the strange vehicle, only realising the obvious when I saw the big ‘Google’ sign on the side of it. If it was actually capturing data as it passed me I’m going…

  • Mario Kart in JavaScript

    Mario Kart in JavaScript! If this is even 1% as good as the N64 version I won’t be emerging from my bedroom for a long, long, time. via kottke

  • My Ideal Parenting Model

    When Mom and Dad Share It All is a New York Times cover story on gender and parenting. A great story with greater insights, this paragraph sums up how I hope my future would be: They would create their own model, one in which they were parenting partners. Equals and peers. They would work equal…

  • Something Different: BA Flight 5390

    In the summer of 1990 British Airways Flight 539 took off from Birmingham, UK for Málaga, Spain. You could say that the flight didn’t exactly go according to plan. At 17,300 feet a cockpit window suffered a ‘failure’, and by ‘failure’ I mean the window departed the aircraft and the unstrapped captain headed towards the…

  • The Final Salute: A Touching Story

    They are the troops that nobody wants to see, carrying a message that no military family ever wants to hear. It begins with a knock at the door. Final Salute is a double Pulitzer Prize winning article (writing and photography) from The Rocky Mountain News profiling the work of Major Steve Beck – a US…

  • 10 Ways We Get Things Wrong

    Psychology Today has an interesting article on fear, probability, and how we get things wrong. It’s not a very scannable article, so here’s an executive summary: We Fear Snakes, Not Cars – Risk and emotion are inseparable We Fear Spectacular, Unlikely Events – Fear skews risk analysis in predictable ways We Fear Cancer But Not…

  • Daily Snopes: An Excellent Waste of Your Time

    Daily Snopes is a news monitoring service from those professional spoilsports, Snopes. A great way to waste half an hour on a slow Friday morning.

  • ACHOO Syndrome – Sneezing and the Sun

    In the summer I always find myself sneezing whenever I leave a building and walk outside, hitting a wall of bright sunshine. This is not something I particularly make conversation about as, let’s face it, what exactly is there to talk about? The cause of my sneezing was obviously linked to sunlight… so what? However,…

  • Parental Conversations

    Mc Sweeney’s Conversations My Parents Must Have Had While Planning to Raise a Child made me laugh… DAD: When I teach her to ride a bike, I will tell her that my hand is on the seat, but then I will take it away just as she is getting the hang of it. MOM: That…

  • Singles Night at the Library

    Not your usual venue for a singles’ night, but I do like this idea. Anyone hoping to spot a potential partner can pick up a pink badge signalling their romantic intentions at reception. Then they can stroll the aisles looking for a book, DVD, or something – or someone – else that takes their fancy.…