by Tom | Jan 18, 2009 | Reading
Sailing, around the world. There’s something about boats, water and land that make unmissable pictures. Too many great ones in there to have a clear favourite. The London one because its London and because Ben Ainslie is often overlooked.Ainslie under Tower...
by Tom | Jan 17, 2009 | Reading
It has been a long time since I’ve had to deal with Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics or NUTS to its friends.Who knew that there were Bezirks in Austria, Peripheries in Greece, Oblasts in Bulgaria and Voivodeships in Poland (Volvo dealerships?)....
by Tom | Jan 17, 2009 | Reading
Lots of thought-provoking thinking in this Interview with Clay Shirky. Items that resonated for me:Firstly the thought that information overload has probably existed since the Library at Alexandria (more information in one place than one human could digest). The...
by Tom | Jan 12, 2009 | Reading
Breaking Bad News with Baby Animals. Genius, I want one! Use look inside to see the sort of thing.
by Tom | Jan 5, 2009 | Reading
I liked a lot of these, but the tomatoes was my favourite.
by Tom | Jan 5, 2009 | Reading
In common with many others, we are loving Pseudo Names in Private Eye. My favourite to date is this one:Sir,We believe that this column has gone as far as it can.ANNE DANNOWD.N. DISNEREANNE-ZOE IPHASEDEE FEIN-AL-KHURTANJust brilliant.My contribution (thanks to Wiffy,...
