A Little More Web Kipple
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 reading “North Yorkshire Council Weather Station Cameras”The autumn trailer for York Art Gallery. The William Morris exhibit looks like it should be interesting.
A nice little breakdown of yesterday’s SpaceX Superheavy booster capture. The whole thing is tremendously ‘Thunderbirds’…
Bop Spotter is an interesting little curio; take an Android phone, set it to run Shazam on a loop, and then hide it somewhere (in this case San Franciscos’s Mission district) with a solar panel attached and suddenly you have the the culture-tasting equivalent of ShotSpotter, generating the unique soundtrack to a particular location. San Franciscos’s Mission is, of course, a very particular environment with a distinct feel too it, so it’d be interesting to see how it would contrast with other locations around the world – though I do suspect that most would end in the brief bang of a controlled explosion.
Bloody Disgusting has a nice little editorial on George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead.
My current-thing-of-the-moment is ‘Doomsday Machines‘ by Alex Wellerstein of NukeMap/Nuclear Secrecy Blog fame. Fairly new, it looks at the post-apocalyptic world in both fact and fiction and, if you’re looking for a starting point, then I’d suggest ‘The end of The Road‘ – a look at Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and McCarthy’s own take on the themes of the novel.
It looks like a lovely day for it…
Apparently the hot new things is to train your A.I. on Reddit – something that doesn’t have a particularly great track record…
Arstechnica has a nice little interview with John Romero about some of his early work on 3D shooters. And if you enjoyed that, then I’d also recommend Masters of Doom.
Ed Zitron’s polemic into the origins of Google Search’s increasingly visible rot is worth a read.
