I came across an interesting web site [via]. The web site is called Café Scientifique, and I’ll let them explain:
>The Cafe Scientifique Network
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>Cafe Scientifique is a place where, for the price of a cup of coffee or a glass
>of wine, anyone can come to explore the latest ideas in science and
>technology. Meetings have taken place [...]
The New Doctor Who
Originally uploaded by Sam Judson.
I have to say, I very much like the new look for Doctor Who. “Geek Chic” its called apparently.
I’m not really that much of a Doctor Who ‘fan’ (I don’t own a single book, tape, cd, video or [...]
Hell
Originally uploaded by Shooz.
I’m a co-admin of a wonderful group on Flickr that tries to contain only entrances to the underworld domain of hell. (Being an admin isn’t all fun - I have to delete some pictures that don’t seem to have anything to do with entrances, or [...]
As a little educational detoir from my current boring code monkeying (some people call it work) I got asked to look into creating a .Net photo gallery (using Flickr of course). I thought this would be a fun thing to do using Custom Controls.
Well after the last upload of source code I finally managed to work out how to log into dragnet, the bug tracker, and discovered a load of bugs had been logged. Damn! (Login as “guest”/”guest”)
So I fixed all the changes and am releasing this new version as 1.3.
Download Latest Version.
Nothing major in this release.
What’s Next
Well [...]
Image a ship sailing up the Tyne with no-one on board. A Ghost ship.
Well if you’re around on the 27th July near the end of the Tall Ships Race you may just see the ghost ship arrive…
Travelling from the Fair Isle in scotland all the way down the east coast of britain, using the latest [...]
A while ago I took a photo of a bit of chalked graffiti in Newcastle. There is an old alley (one of a pair) that leads off Pilgrim Street and down to Carliol Square. The chalk graffiti reads “Secret Entrance”, with an arrow. Aside from the fact that the alley provides a perhaps little know [...]
I found an absolutely brilliant google map hack the other day, called GMap Pedomoeter. I allows you to track a route using Google Maps and tells you the distance etc as you go along. Its great for measuring out running routes, so I decided to measure out the route for the Great North Run, which [...]
Holy crap…
Listening to Radio 2 - apparently a until recently unheard of group of terrorists have claimed responsibility for the explosions, in the name of Al-Qaeda.
More than 10 are dead!
Update: German website has news on the Al-Qaeda organisation.