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Tipp-Ex on YouTube
Great viral (comments have lots of suggestions) - but who uses Tipp-Ex anymore?
720tube
Uploads HD videos to YouTube from iPhone 4 (normal video uploads are scaled down).
German Plans to Photograph Those Buildings People Want to Exclude from Google Street View
A German plans to subvert those who pre-remove their houses from Street View by taking perfectly-legal photographs from the street.
Wikipedia's "Lamest edit wars"
British "are" vs. American "is" for band name results in "ALL-CAPS edit summaries laced with profanity and death threats liberally employed by one side." etc
How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell
"You are now a mouse cursor inside a graphics program which the client can control by speaking, emailing and IM"
Microsoft Street Slide
Microsoft's prototype extension of Street View to give a full-street overview is exactly what's needed
Wikipedia: List of auto-antonyms in English
Awful used to mean "full of awe, even better than awesome."
James Turnbull is a web developer from Edinburgh and living in Oxford. This website is a link-dump of things he found online.
James is developer and co-author of the popular Google Earth "things-to-see" website, Google Sightseeing and the spin-off book Not in the Guide Book. He also sometimes posts blogs to Rotacoo.
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Distilleries of Islay
Fans of single-malt scotch whisky associate single malts from the Isle of Islay in Scotland with bold and peaty flavors. Not every whisky produced on the island is heavily peated, but that’s the signature flavour of…
Posted on 2nd September 2010
HubPages Marks the Spot
Recognising our literary passion, technical knowledge, and expertise in the online mapping field1, the web’s 57th most popular website, HubPages, have asked Alex and I to join thier expert panel and judge entries to their latest…
Posted on 31st August 2010
The Russian Woodpecker
Last week a top-secret Russian shortwave radio station, UVB-76, began broadcasting a coded message for only the fourth time in 28 years. Today we’re exploring another shortwave system within the radioactive zone surrounding Chernobyl, The Russian…
Posted on 30th August 2010
Airport Emergency Training Locations
As a moderately frequent flyer, I enjoy looking out for fire and emergency training locations at airports. It’s fascinating because, for anybody who is even vaguely nervous about flying, the sight of a twisted and charred…
Posted on 27th August 2010
“The Buzzer” speaks! (Voice transmission confirmed at UVB-76)
Regular readers may remember our post from 2009 about a Russian shortwave radio station, UVB-76, that has been emitting a short buzz tone on the AM frequency almost continuously since 1982. In the following 28 years…
Posted on 25th August 2010