A Little More Web Kipple
Whilst poking around on Getty.edu’s art search site I managed to stumble on this fascinating but sadly poor photograph of what is now the junction between Museum Street, St Leonard’s Place, Duncombe Place, and Blake Street. The photos current location can be seen on the StreetView below.
Continue reading “York Minster from Lop Lane”Righto.com has a rather delightful introduction to and teardown of a Globus INK – a Soviet-era mechanical navigation aid for spaceflight.
A NASA animation of the FAA’s continental US flight logs from the morning of September 11th, 2001.
24 bloody years…
So this lunchtime Period Sites in Period Browsers (PSPB) threw up an interesting bit of history – a brief overview of Netscape Navigator users circa 1996.
An old photo of what was, back then, a rather new view.
Continue reading “York Minster, West Front / James Valentine (between 1860 and 1879)”
This is interesting; Heresy, witchcraft, Jean Gerson, scepticism and the use of placebo controls covers a late 16th Century French attempt to apply a proto-scientific method to demonic possession and, in effect, implement a placebo-controlled trial.
A lovely shot of the first Longships Lighthouse taken in the 1860s by William May. The long exposure fuzz on the ocean is an artefact of the then-available photography process rather than an artistic choice.
Sadly lost to the mists of time the Wayback Machine, here’s NVIDIA’s recreation of the Apollo 11 moonwalk – complete with accurate, conspiracy-busting lighting!
It’s the 185th anniversary of the fire at York Minster on 20th May, 1840 and here’s a print to mark the occasion!
