It’s an old one but, from the jargon files, A Story About Magic.
‘Magic’ and ‘More Magic’.
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Your Name In Landsat
NASA’s ‘Your Name In Landsat‘ is neat; it attempts to spell your name – or any other word you provide – in land features from satellite imagery as recorded by the Landsat satellite network.
It also has a nice little function where it’ll provide you with a clean-cropped image that you can easily download.
‘Malton’
‘York’
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Sadly, however, it doesn’t do punctuation.
Vodafone using UK Mobile Network to Measure Rain
This is funky, the River Severn Partnership Advanced Wireless Innovation Region is using the Vodafone mobile phone network as a virtual rain sensor. ISPReview has a short introduction
Continue readingCorvids of the British Isles
Support Your Local Police Movie
The heroes likewise are strung along a spectrum from the hippie cop Frank Serpico, who nearly paid with his life for exposing the corruption of the New York force, to the uncouth ‘Popeye’ Doyle
The BFI website has quite a nice reprint (if that’s what we’re calling these things…) of a Spring 1974 article on the early 70’s explosion of US cop movies. Many of the movies talked about are ones that have passed me by and appear to have faded from memory, but it is interesting to see how films like Dirty Harry and Serpico were viewed and evaluated at the time.
Read Support Your Local Police Movie at the BFI website.
Using Machine Learning for Geoglyph Detection
PNAS has an interesting paper on using AI and Machine Learning to try and identify new Nazca Pampa geoglyphs in the Peruvian Nazca Desert. It’s a fun little lunchtime skim with a few nice images of some of the newly found geoglyphs.
The UX of LEGO Interface Panels
This is a nice little introduction to UX design issues via the medium of Lego interface blocks: https://interactionmagic.com/UX-LEGO-Interfaces/
North Yorkshire Council Weather Station Cameras
So it turns out that North Yorkshire Council runs a set of weather station webcams and makes them available to view by the general public.
Continue readingVisit York Art Gallery
The autumn trailer for York Art Gallery. The William Morris exhibit looks like it should be interesting.
A Breakdown of the SpaceX Superheavy Landing from Yesterday.
A nice little breakdown of yesterday’s SpaceX Superheavy booster capture. The whole thing is tremendously ‘Thunderbirds’…