Lee Byron has come up with a really cool way of visualising last.fm data. Here is the graph for the 29degrees office since we set the jukebox up in mid-April:
If you have your own last.fm account you can generate your own graphs here.
This afternoon we experienced a brief outage, during which about half our users seemed to lose their subscriptions.
Fair enough, it was only temporary, but wait here’s the reason:
This can happen when one of the many complex systems that power Google Reader experiences a glitch.
No kidding, a glitch! And I was sure it was going to be a bug or a gremlin! That has to be one of the most redundant sentences ever.
Cthulhu: Eater of Souls, Roaster of Dogs
Faulty fax causes mall to be closed
…Boston … police shut down a strip mall yesterday in this small western suburb after employees at a
Bank of America branch mistook a botched fax for a bomb threat.Frustrated shop owners said the branch overreacted to the strange fax, which turned out to be an in-house marketing document sent by the bank’s corporate office.
Though Stern and Evil during the week Vader was known to let his hair down at the weekend.
Top 15 Google street view sightings
Lorry destroyed driving through tunnel 6 inches too low
Mr. Cantu drove the entire 1.5 miles of the tunnel from Weehawken, N.J., to Manhattan, tearing his way under the Hudson River in the tunnel’s center tube and peeling back the roof of his tractor-trailer as if it were a tin can.
Interesting analysis of casino design
How they get all your money
How to make the best paper planes
No, really.
I spotted this dodgy looking surveillance van in Manchester a couple of weeks ago (I have just managed to get the images off my phone).
Notice the cameras on top. It would only have been more menacing if it had ‘FREEDOM IS SLAVERY’ written down each side.
Thanks Carl for spotting this on the BBC:
Original here (click 5), though it might not be there long. Update: the original has been removed.
LOLTHEORISTS. OK, no more LOL* posts. None. Finished.
Seen on my way to work this morning:
I took this photo of a dingy, slightly seedy looking second-hand book shop near the Northern Quarter in Manchester. There is something slightly sinister about the sign, almost like it should read ‘Kittens *Desperatly* Wanted’.
How to deal with Dangerous Animals, including:
Leopard:
Apparently one can pass close by a hiding Leopard and as long as your eyes don’t meet, it will allow one to pass. But the moment it is aware that one has noticed it, it will flee, or if cornered, may attack.
and:
Lion:
Never run away when you encounter Lions. If you run, they will run you down, as Lions instinctively charge and kill a fleeing animal. Stand still and slowly back away downwind until you are out of sight. If the Lion does not like the movement, stand still.
Useful information. Maybe.
