This is quite a mad one – and yet obvious when you think about it. Pottery from thousands of years ago carries an ambient recording superimposed into the work of the artesan. A Belgian team have managed to extract the recording from a 6,500 year-old South American vase and some 1,000 year-old Latin from another from ancient Pompeii (if my French understanding is to be believed…) Follow the link, check the video.
As a huge sigh of relief escapes most web front end developers around the world following Microsoft’s news of their dropping of IE for Mac, I’m quite looking forward to the fact that we’ll be able to test XHTML/CSS on Mac browsers that are more or less sane. It’s fairly amusing seeing MS recommend Safari as well ;)
For some reason, I saw Scoopt, thought it was a great idea, and neglected to write anything about it here! Anyway, allow me to do so now… From their FAQ:
What is Scoopt?
Scoopt is a media agency that has been created specifically to help members of the public sell photographs and videos of newsworthy events to the press.
There’s been a sudden interest in “citizen journalism” – at least in the UK – following the exclusives captured by cameraphones in the London Underground on 7th July and Scoopt is there specifically for this kind of reporting.
Anyway, right now Scoopt exists as a great idea, in need of more members from the general public. Join up on the Scoopt site.
Wow! We just got back from a tricky problem with the server… Gentoo (of which I’m still somewhat of a fan) decided to do some, er, interesting changes to config in the last emerge.
Thanks to Pete at Bytemark for some great help to get back online.
In any case, nice one George – I hope they make the mistake of continuing to persue it!
I’ve just got a new flat sorted out in Barcelona, so I’M BACK! I have to say, it’s nice to be in BCN again. Big shout out and ’nuff respeck to Lio for the use of his fun bouncy sofa bed while I was looking for a flat.
The new flat, which I’ll be sharing with the Brown Bear, is on Valencia and is quite mad, frankly! Anyway, feel free to visit ;)
(Sorry, nicked the title from the Manchester crew.)
It’s bloody snowing! In Tarragona! Last time this happened, they had a book about it. (Photo clichés to come…)
Russ suggested his readers post this comic on their blogs, to counter its banning by various papers. So I did.
[Important: it’s cropped to fit – original is available.]
