I love random links that catch you by surprise, or have some interesting geeky feature or service. This website, then, is wonderfully random, in a quite literal sense, and really quite useful if ever you find yourself needing genuinely random data. Which is a bit more often than you might think in my line of […]
It’s a great ‘feel-good’ story, and a picture is worth a thousand words. Whilst almost every news programme has covered Stephen Hawking’s weightless flight, this picture from the Washington Post (via boingboing) captures it best for me, with the floating apple a tribute to Isaac Newton. Wonderfully inspiring stuff. Interesting Dali artwork comparison mentioned at […]
Roger Darlington was very gracious in awarding me a ‘Thinking Bloggers’ award and passing on the meme. Because I like shiny things, I also get to put up the little icon. My site, my rules Anyway, I’ve not been tagged with a meme before, so figure it’s only fair to actually pass it on […]
This appeals to the geek in me (memories of GCSE Computer Studies, and my special IT stencil), the science geek in me, and the atheist. It succinctly captures both the scientific method, and the fundamentals of religion in one easy picture: Science vs Faith - the flowchart Enjoy. Found via boingboing.
Rod Liddle’s programme “The trouble with atheism” (my preview here) was a rather disappointing ramble that didn’t impress me particularly. But then I didn’t expect to be impressed in the first place, so no harm done, eh? But it did highlight some of the unnecessary and sometimes unpleasant smugness associated with some public atheists (but […]
Probably one of the best astronomical pictures I’ve seen. Take a look, note the small, pale, blue dot to the left of the rings. There are a number of other pictures, including the famous ‘Earth Rise’ (which my parents have always had a print of in their hallway), that do a wonderful job of inverting our […]
This year is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Bristol, close to where I grew up, is home to one of his finest constructions, the Clifton suspension bridge, and they are marking the anniversary with various events. Radio 4 are also in on the act, with Britain’s modern Brunels where Sue Nelson […]
I was delighted to receive an e-mail from John Forbat that he would soon be publishing a book titled The Secret World of Vickers Guided Weapons. I’ve been in touch with John for a couple of years after he discovered my website article about my grandfather, Paul Leyton (You can read his posting in the […]
Just a few minutes left today to wish readers a happy Darwin Day. Today is the 197th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, who first identified the process of evolution. Various events have occurred to mark the day, and many more will be happening over the course of the next few weeks. So it’s a […]
The threat of a gas shortage has loomed large in the headlines this week. Whilst the threat seems limited to heavy industrial users, the cold-snap, talk of a cold winter (and
