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.
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Linkspam: Visit York Art Gallery
The autumn trailer for York Art Gallery. The William Morris exhibit looks like it should be interesting.
Linkspam: 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’…
Linkspam: Bop Spotter
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.
Linkspam: No More Room in Hell: ‘Dawn of the Dead’ Remains a Masterpiece 45 Years Later
Bloody Disgusting has a nice little editorial on George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead.
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.
Linkspam: Everest Basecamp to Summit Via Drone
It looks like a lovely day for it…
Linkspam: MIT fed an AI data from Reddit, and now it only thinks about murder
Apparently the hot new things is to train your A.I. on Reddit – something that doesn’t have a particularly great track record…
Linkspam: Starring the Computer
Starring the Computer is a fun – if somewhat geeky – site recording the use of various computers in films and television. As long with the usual suspects – such as the Apple Macintosh SE and the Commodore 64 – they have some more obscure devices, such as the Thinking Machines CM-1 pictured below. It is really worth a look.
A Game Boy Camera to FaceTime Bridge
Completely impractical but with a delightfully retro output, this Game Boy Camera to FaceTime bridge is really rather neat.