Monday, August 23, 2010

H. L. Mencken - Wikiquote
Bookmarked on del.icio.us at 15:49.
Tags: cynic, mencken, writer
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
Bookmarked on del.icio.us at 15:36.
Tags: cache, cdn, code, geolocation, nginx, tech
Roll-your-own edge cache. Quite a, uh, concise write-up. Nice though.

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Sas.gif (image)
Image added to my FFFFOUND at 02:38.
Sas.gif (image)
Image originally ffffound at bp0.blogger.com.

Monday, August 2, 2010

Holding back the cars
Picture of Enforcement episode taken at 19:07 on July 30th.
Tags: clerkenwell, london, police, stop, traffic
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
Picture posted to Flickr by Noel Kerns at 21:29 on July 29th ’10
Added to my Flickr favourites at 22:49.
Tags: Kansas, abandoned, gas, night, station
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.

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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
Picture posted to Flickr by funkandjazz (Steve Rotman) at 06:26 on July 8th ’10.
Tags: california, graffiti, sanfrancisco, tunks
Tunks
Added to my Flickr favourites at 12:33.
York Way lights
Picture of Enforcement episode taken at 22:21 on July 7th.
Tags: btp, kings cross, london, police
York Way lights
Transporters transporting themselves up the Kings Cross dune.

York Way, Kings Cross, London

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Momentary lapse of motion
Picture of Enforcement episode taken at 16:55 on June 23rd.
Tags: london, police
Momentary lapse of motion
Hanging around the lights near Kings Cross station.

Thursday, June 24, 2010

bamboo and taipei 101
Picture posted to Flickr by orange tuesday (Chris) at 12:39 on December 5th ’06
Added to my Flickr favourites at 21:35.
Tags: 101, 5photosaday, Science, Taipei, Taiwan, Wierd, Wierd Science, awe, bamboo, city, clouds, fivephotosaday, lights, night, photographer, scene, skyscraper, tower, tripod, urban, view
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
Picture of Enforcement episode taken at 16:07 on June 11th.
Tags: curtain road, london, police, shoreditch
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