(apart from a teensy reference the other day)
Monthly Archives: August 2006
It has been…..
…895 days since I started this blog, or 2 years, 5 months, 12 days.
The journalists are restless
A couple of articles caught my eye on digg recently. It was those sort of articles that have really interesting title/summaries such as ‘The “Snakes on a Plane” Problem‘ and ‘The Mystery of the Online Community‘, yet that is sometimes where the interest stops and boiling antagonism starts. Sure, some really excellent points made by [...]
Evidence
Evidence is evidence, whether words, numbers, images, diagrams, still or moving. The intellectual tasks remain constant regardless of the mode of evidence: to understand and to reason about the materials at hand, and to appraise their quality, relevance, and integrity. Edward Tufte
Humming Bird in the UK? – Video
Oh by the way, this was taken at 8:25 this morning (Stoke Newington – North London). Pictures here Update: It appears that this may be a Hummingbird Hawk-moth. Apparently not that uncommon in the UK. Damn wierd though.
Humming Bird in the UK? – Photos
Now not being an expert on ornithology I wasn’t definately sure what I was looking at this morning when my girlfriend woke me up to enquire what kind of an animal was happily buzzing round our carnations. However, I was pretty sure this was a humming bird (although other suggestions on a postcard please), I [...]