Monday, August 23, 2010

H. L. Mencken - Wikiquote

Some excellent pithy quotes from Mencken, a dude I clearly need to read more of. Examples: "Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary"; and "To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride".

Monday, August 9, 2010

How to build your own CDN using BIND, GeoIP, Nginx, Varnish

Roll-your-own edge cache. Quite a, uh, concise write-up. Nice though.

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Sas.gif (image)

Sas.gif (image)
Image originally ffffound at bp0.blogger.com.

Monday, August 2, 2010

Holding back the cars

Holding back the cars
Some serious episode apparently in train, these two pairs of police stopped for a swift confabulation - presumably to establish an approach rather than to discuss the day's dramas or plan a trip back to the station for a cuppa - before zooming off, lights ablaze and sirens ablare, leaving a street suddenly devoid of distraction, and a column of cars directly to their own devices.

Clerkenwell Road, London

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Light Wings

Light Wings
Noel Kerns’s comment:
Just a couple miles north of Picher, Oklahoma, at a non-existent place in the road called Cravensville,Kansas lies this elegantly constructed yet internally gutted little abandoned gas station. This intersection of US-69 & US-166 was surprisingly busy for being as out-in-the-country as it is.

View Large On Black

Night, full moon, passing headlights, CTO-gelled X2000 on the building & natural X2000 flashlight on the light fixtures. White balanced at 3500K.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Tunks

Tunks
Added to my Flickr favourites at 12:33.
York Way lights

York Way lights
Transporters transporting themselves up the Kings Cross dune.

York Way, Kings Cross, London

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Momentary lapse of motion

Momentary lapse of motion
Hanging around the lights near Kings Cross station.

Thursday, June 24, 2010

bamboo and taipei 101

bamboo and taipei 101
Chris’s comment:
Taipei 101 and photographers on elephant mountain. A great view point off 101 and Taipei. I'm not sure what the photographer is doing - shooting stars?

This photo is now being used in a Wired Magazine article on weird science. If you want to find out how Taipei 101 is linked to 'manmade' earthquakes, click the link below

blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/06/top-5-ways-that.html

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Popped out

Popped out
These two fellow just dropped in to the Horse and Groom, dropped out again, and headed off up the street.

Curtain Road, Shoreditch, London