Links from 2009

Discover when the golden hour is at your current location, explore visually how the golden hour changes with the seasons and where you are in the world. [...] We calculate sunrise and sunset times. the elevation and azimuth of the sun and of course, display the golden hour.

A software version control visualization for Git and CVS.

"Unique steam-powered Cornish beam engine". Like the fact that there's a "Steaming / Not steaming" table.

Sheltered garden with an abundance of exotic trees and shrubs.

"Rocky island crowned by medieval church and castle, home to a living community." No zombies, then.

This takes you on a circular route through the town, tracing its story through buildings and historical remains, rounds and medieval crosses, churches, chapels, farm towns and shops.

The bigger challenges when creating sprites are finding the background images and knowing how to group them into sprites. Once the sprite image is created, testing the sprite, including changing all the CSS, is time consuming. SpriteMe addresses all of these challenges.

More worthwhile git persuasion info.

Mr Reid's excellent Interesting talk: "Everything you know about nuclear power is wrong".

Lots of information on the Night Riviera sleeper service to Cornwall from Seat 61.

Open-air cliffside theatre.

Overlooks the beautiful St Michael's Mount and boasts Cornwall's largest reedbed. More than 250 bird, 500 plant, 500 insect and 18 mammal species have been recorded here and bitterns are now regular winter visitors (although patience is required to see them).

Very detailed A/B testing presentation.

A very brief list of what happened at this year’s Interesting

An experiment in crowdsourced game development.

A collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds.

Two case studies of building Django applications irresponsibly on tight deadlines, and some thoughts on more sustainable ways of developing with Django.

A system-wide terminal accessible via a hot-key

Astrotags are a new way to label your astronomy photos with their celestial subject and its location. This short film, made by Jim Le Fevre and Mike Paterson for the Royal Observatory’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year exhibition, shows you how. So have a watch, then astrotag your pictures at the Astronomy Photographer of the Year group on Flickr. If everyone joins in we can make a beautiful and accurate map of the night sky… so pass the word on.

Good flowering teas in particular.

A very low cost open source autonomous blimp. It consists of an Arduino-based blimp controller board with on-board infrared and ultrasonic sensors and an interface for an optional RC mode, a simple gondola with two vectoring (tilting) differential thrusters, and ground-based infrared beacon.

A quick bit of documentation on making a Bluetooth device that can respond to your computer. In this example a Processing sketch will blink the LED of the Arduino. It requires basic knowledge of soldering, Arduino and Processing.

Just the meat. "This specification describes the fifth major version of the HTML language and provides details necessary for producers of HTML content to create documents that conform to the language. By design, it does not define related APIs nor attempt to specify how consumers of HTML content are meant to process documents."

A brief talk about getting started with automating deployment [...] nice and simple and [doesn't] focus on any specific technology or tool – just the general principles and pitfalls of doing anything manually.

This is one of several animated short films set to the audio recordings of philosopher Alan Watts (1915 – 1973). From what I can tell, the animations were made several years ago and were produced by the makers of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone.

Sells small, low-power, reasonably cheap headless boxes.

"A new Belgian Bar in Stoke Newington, 5 minutes' walk from Church Street, just off the High Street on Northwold Road." Yay, Belgian beer without the hike.

Explore 44,500 selected recordings of music, spoken word, and human and natural environments

The British Library launches new traditional and world music collections online at http://sounds.bl.uk. Featuring unique field recordings, live performances and out-of-print commercial releases, this latest addition to the JISC-funded Archival Sound Recordings website provides a sample of musical traditions across the globe - offering a glimpse of cultural experience around the world.

ProxPick is a highly versatile attack & defense tool for 125-134KHz RFID systems (collectively known as Prox), about the size of a playing card.