Category: Link

  • Blogging Away

    —

    by

    Sam
    in ,

    One of the nicest things about this blog (and admittedly one of its aims) is how friends and family from around the world follow what I’m up to, particularly when I’m traveling. When I got back from the US this week, almost everyone I spoke to knew what I’d been up to and where I…

  • 4 killed on a cycling club run

    —

    by

    Sam
    in

    Four cyclists from Rhyl Cycling Club have been killed in an accident involving a car on the A547 in North Wales. By all accounts, the car was not speeding, but lost control on a patch of ice on a bend and spun into a group of 11 riders, including children. Full story on the BBC’s…

  • 2005 Google Searches

    —

    by

    Sam
    in

    Google had billions of search queries in 2005. Do you wonder which were the most common? Investigate them here.

  • Readers take snapshot of history

    —

    by

    Sam
    in

    OK, so here’s another link today: a BBC news article reporting on the way in which digital images are easily captured and passed around the globe, and how this is affecting modern media. Many people took striking photos of the huge fire at the Buncefield fuel depot and shared them freely, in a case of…

  • The body snatchers’ legacy to medicine

    —

    by

    Sam
    in

    “The body snatchers’ legacy to medicine” is a BBC article looking at anatomy in the 18th Century, specifically body snatching and the advances anatomical studies gave to medicine at the time.

  • SAND 2005

    —

    by

    Sam
    in

    Next week Swansea University will host the 6th Swansea Animation Day – which is now actually a week long conference rather than a day. I’ve been chatting to the School of Digital Media at the Swansea Institute (SIHE) about developing projects based in anatomy for their students. The quality of work that some of their…

  • E-Mail Time Capsule

    —

    by

    Sam
    in

    Would you like a time capsule to send to yourself in the future? You could dig a hole in the ground, or you could send yourself an email. Forbes and Sprint are doing just that. They’re taking your emails, sitting on them for up to 20 years, and then sending them to the email address…

  • I Want It That Way

    —

    by

    Sam
    in

    Chinese alternative I Want It That Way video If you haven’t seen Google Videos yet, this probably isn’t the ideal introduction. I found it funny, though. It is pointless without sound, but it is clean. (Thanks to Mundow for the link).

  • No Photoshop in Cardiff

    —

    by

    Sam
    in

    How bizarre is this? I’m having problems with Photoshop on my Mac. It now refuses to open or create new files. Pain in the arse, because I need it for all sorts of tasks. Crawling through the Adobe support pages I find this: Adobe applications don’t start when the time zone for the computer isn’t…

  • Bird Flu

    —

    by

    Sam
    in

    Would you like to see how the H5N1 strain of avian flu has been moving around the world over the last 2 years? Use this BBC resource to track it: Link There are also links to much more bird flu information from that page.