Dropsafe

Most definitely.

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Well, the Russian Government hates Google Earth, the Korean Government hates Google Earth, the Dutch Government hates Google Earth, GetMapping.COM are abhored by MI5 and their flunkies although somehow Google Maps seems to be approved-of by the BBC and Google Earth is not yet on the UK media’s radar… Isn’t it funny that people will

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[nielsenhayden.com] Don’t ignore warnings. If someone tells you to beware of Long Lankin, friggin’ beware of him. If someone tells you not to go by Carterhaugh, stay away. Same goes for your mother asking you not to go out hunting on a particular day. Portents about weather, particularly when delivered by an old sailor who

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Strange, bizzare and sad: [www.macleans.ca] The Canadian music icon is broke and the lawsuits are flying. It’s a sordid tale involving allegations of extortion, SWAT teams, forcible confinement, tax troubles and betrayal.

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I was reading elsewhere of a common complaint: My tax disc was stolen again a couple of weeks ago. This time instead of just taking the tax disc, the pikey kids took the entire tax disc holder. (Probably because I’d replaced the “insecure” holder with a new one that has six hex screws holding the

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From Bridget: thank god for your blog! it is a lifesaver in these times of emotional turbulence! ( you can post this as a recommendation if you want! ) love the pics of the dragonfly!!! …now all I need to do is get her onto Skype, and I can spend all my days – as

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In my garden hangs a 50m length of scarlet webbing, in lieu of a washing line; taking advantage of the fine weather on Saturday I was hanging-out a load of wet clothes, and found that a Dragonfly had parked atop one of the supportbeams, two of its front legs crossed and all of them resting

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This is one of the most brilliantly clear and immediately accessible ways of representing arbitrary data in a teaching tool, that I have ever seen in my life: [www.learnmorsecode.com]

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As far as I know, I am the first person to spot this. Check out Google International Zeitgeist :- Ireland Popular Women July 2005 paris hilton jessica simpson britney spears angelina jolie sherry fitzgerald Oops. The latter one is an Estate Agent company. But you can see how they might think it was the name

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Just a handful of videos from a project I’m working on, based on the trip this summer; also a few experimental still-frames captured from the video camera, showing the typical state of Norwegian roads – scourmarks, pits, cracks and potholes. RealVideo required. I shall be experimenting with other compressors, too. The stillframes are at original

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Via Make: So, this guy gets a bunch of FedEx boxes delivered to him, and rather than using them to ship stuff to some remote part of the world, he glues them together to make different kinds of furniture – sofas, tables, workstations, chairs and beds. And, apparently, he actually uses them daily, and they

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…and other pretty applets at [www.eigelb.at] ; DelayedTrace GalaxyCreator2 Rainbow GrappaWH_White …

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