It’s an old one but, from the jargon files, A Story About Magic.
‘Magic’ and ‘More Magic’.
Tag Archives: Geekery
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 readingMaps – Mid March 2025 Update
It’s time for another little update and this time it’s 238 Ordnance Survey maps of various towns and cities across North Yorkshire.
Interesting map sets include:
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So, in a moment of extreme nerdiness whilst watching the 28 Years Later trailer, I wondered if the abandoned train featured in a shot was just a product of the arts department or if it actually was a real locomotive.
Blue Sky
As a followup to my mastodon account (see this post), I’ve also created an experimental Blue Sky account. I’ve still no idea how long they’ll last.
Maps – Early Spring 2025 Update
It’s time for another little update and this time it’s 182 maps of Cardiganshire taken from the ‘Ordnance Survey Maps – 25 inch England and Wales, 1841-1952’ series.
Interesting places covered this update include:
Happy 30th Birthday ‘Anglosphere’!
So here’s something of an oddity; the Oxford English Dictionary thinks the word ‘Anglosphere’ is a mere thirty years old this month.
Doomsday Machines
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.
Photographs – A Trip to The National Railway Museum
It’s been a little while since I last added any photographs, however you can now find a selection of images from at May 2024 trip to The National Railway Museum here!