Month: July 2010

OK so the commentary is a little cheesey, but a great virtual tour of a typical oil refinery from CB&I.

Interesting, via Rivets.

And intelligent use of the web.

For better or worse I have the Saturn Sky back on the road again here in the UK. These photos from new in 2007.

Much photographed Pennine Way location was the highlight of our walking weekend.

Interesting analysis from John Udell of Excel and Google Spreadsheets from a web publishing perspective.

Still hard to beat the spreadsheet for human readable organization of data (*), but the flexibility of format and use makes automation problematic. (*) And not just presenting and organizing data, also as a mark-up and mapping UI, adding adjacent columns is so natural. I’ve been heard to voice the idea (based on no evidence) that the Egyptians probably used the approach on slates of tabula when building the pyramids.

There are lots of sites with photos of abandoned inhabitation, but this was clearly a beautiful resort location. I’m guessing despite the spelling it’s here, in Georgia on the Black Sea ?

(Friday evening dose of Rivets.)

And a little too much IKEA for my liking but some of these are excellent. The Lays potatoes and the Funeral service for example. Brilliant.

It says it’s a photo from the BBC, (no link) but it’s photo-shopped surely ? Is it my imagination but isn’t that the roof of a human mouth in there with a row of incisors.

Only the second time I’ve seen this. A badger on this occasion. Need to track down the earlier example, of yellow lines painted over an armadillo.

In fact there are plenty. This is the one I recalled …. a possum in fact.