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Monthly Archives: February 2005
Baldrin’s reviews – StumbleUpon
http://baldrin.stumbleupon.com/
Update: Grabbed a screenshot and a wayback machine link
https://web.archive.org/web/20111211094513/http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/Baldrin/reviews/
Anyone who understands ‘revolving-door algorithms’… gets a thumbs up from me.
Welcome aboard!
Rockall Times: UK Residency Language Test
http://www.therockalltimes.co.uk/2005/02/21/linguistic-test.html
More NSFW humour from the pages of the Rockall Times
Wayback Machine:
Update: this is way more offensive than I remember it
Universe today flickr pool 3,000+ members, 76,000+ photos
http://www.universetoday.com/am/uploads/2005-0218planet-full.jpg
Update: Originally this was a hotlink to a particularly impressive photo which is no longer available.
I’ve replaced it with something far better. A link to the Universe Today Flickr Group. Some truly amazing photos taken by gifted amateurs.
One of the great things about astronomy is the way that ordinary people make significant contributions.
Quick link: https://flic.kr/go/gi2Cq
A Dozen New Planets Discovered: Universe today
http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/12_new_planets.html?1822005
Summary – (Feb 18, 2005)
In the last month planet hunters have uncovered 12 new worlds orbiting other stars, bringing the total planet count to 145. Two European planet hunting teams have discovered 6 gas giants as part of the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Search (HARPS), and an American team uncovered 5 more using the W.M. Keck observatory in Hawaii. And a single, Pluto-sized planet was discovered orbiting a pulsar by Penn State’s Alex Wolszczan and Caltech’s Maciej Konacki.
Rooster and Bamboo – a Painting by Xu Beihong
http://www.chinapage.com/painting/beihong/beihong04.html
Update: Original page has vanished so I tracked down another copy of the painting
The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1642 – 1658
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/war/
Update: Original no longer accessible so here’s an alternative full of material about The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1642 – 1658, particularly the English Civil War.
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/histories/the-english-civil-wars-history-and-stories/
English Heritage give plenty of links to primary source material
National Curriculum – resource for educators
http://www.nc.uk.net/
Useful resource for educators in England.
Update: The nearest I could find to the original link is this.
It also includes curricula from other countries.
Lock up, Light up, Be secure
Haven’t been able to post recently because my house was burgled and the buggers stole all my computers (x2 laptops and my beloved Mac). So I’ve had to set up a new (temporary) system. Hopefully, things will return to normal soon as I backed up my bookmarks and most of my work related files were either on a spare machine at work or existed in hard copy.
The three rules of computing are:
1) Back up your files.
2) Always backup your files.
3) Never forget to backup your files.
Good advice, but I wish I had been more diligent.
Burglars? String ’em up, it’s the only kind of language they understand!
Chinese New Year 2005 : Year of the Wood Rooster
http://www.chinapage.com/newyear.html
2005 is the Year of Yiyou, popularly known as the Year of the Rooster
2011 is Year of Rabbit.
2010 is Year of the Tiger.
2009 is Year of the Ox;
2008 is the Year of Rat;
2007 is Year of Pig or DingHai –
2006 is Year of Dog.
2005 is year of the rooster
2004 was the Year of Monkey.
2003 was the Year of the Goat
Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA); True IRA
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/nira.htm
From the web site:
“Suspected of receiving funds from sympathizers in the United States and of attempting to buy weapons from US gun dealers. RIRA also is reported to have purchased sophisticated weapons from the Balkans.
In May 2002, three Irish nationals associated with RIRA pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to cause an explosion and trying to obtain weapons following their extradition from Slovenia to the United Kingdom.”
Update: Glad to see this site is still with us and archived properly. The full site (The Federation of American Scientists: Intelligence Resource Program) is well worth a look:
https://irp.fas.org/index.html
I like the concept of Open source Intelligence
The war on terror – American double standards
http://www.usni.org/Seminars/AnnualMeeting/04/annualmeeting04LehmanQA-2.htm
No longer available but the quotation stands on its own…
From the page:
“Finally, there are places in the world, not very far from you, that are very friendly with you, that have accepted terrorism as the norm for 30 or 40 years. And yet, I have been to bars in Boston where I have seen collections for more aid with “Would you like to put a dollar in here to kill a British soldier?” And as far as I can see, the response of your organization has been to accept that. Even as powerful as you are, you are going to need friends in the future. You’ve needed friends in the past. And the best friends that you have, in this country, are the United Kingdom. I’d just ask you to remember that.”
Whenever I hear Americans go on about the ‘War on terror’ I remember this and I remember those who died at the hands of the IRA.
Foodhub, recipes, cooking and baking
http://food.hubcom.net/cgi-win/recipe.exe?1
Who needs to buy cookbooks when there are sites like this?
Update: back in 2005 `Recipe sites were a lot less ubiquitous than they are today. To be honest I can’t remember the last time I actually used a cookbook and not a website.
My personal go to website is the BBC, the rest I just bookmark into a folder if I like them.
Howard W French – Photos of China
http://www.howardwfrench.com/photos/Guangzhou-Nan-Hua-Xi-Jie-neighborhood/neighborhood_1
unable to trace these photos – you’ll just have to read through French’s articles on China to see them.
A Glimpse of the World – Howard W French
https://www.howardwfrench.com/reportage
The web site of Howard W French who is a senior writer for the New York Times. Plenty of quality journalism, with an oriental slant (French lives in Shanghai with his wife & 2 kids) mxed with the usual personal web site stuff.
Update: He also has a weekly column at World Politics Review
the Avcen Ltd. Jetpod
http://www.avcen.com/
Makers of the Jetpod which is ‘… to all intent and purpose a low-cost world-class city airtaxi’
I want one!
flashtastic site
Update:
It all ended in tears
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVCEN_Jetpod
Discussed in detail here:
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/avcen-jetpod-vqstol.10742/
randomcarbons favorite websites – StumbleUpon
http://randomcarbon.stumbleupon.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20050308224046/http://randomcarbon.stumbleupon.com/
Welcome aboard!
Welcome to the Home Office
Tony Blair continues to eat away at the rights of free born Englishmen. From today I have to apply to the Secretary of State for permission to marry a foreigner, this came as a shock as my fiance and I presented our documents at the registry office today.
Now I can see why the thirteen colonies rebelled against good king George all those years ago.