- BBC – Viewfinder: Street photography now
I always feel slightly uncomfortable taking photos of strangers. But you do see some great things that are fleeting, momentary, yet somehow one feels that they should be preserved.
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- Cost-saving perennial planting system offers help to hard-pressed council teams | Horticulture Week
It would be good, in my view, for local authorities to use perennials for planting more widely. But I'm not holding my breath for sudden change.
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- Cost-saving perennial planting system offers help to hard-pressed council teams | Horticulture Week
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- BBC News – Crowdsourcing: Turning customers into creative directors
Interesting. I'm not sure that crowdsourcing can be applied in all areas of design and creation (you can't do it for most aspects of car design, for example, due to technical and legislative requirements), but it could certainly put pressure on a few job titles in the workplace. It isn't a panacea for those areas where it can be applied, either.
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- BBC News – Crowdsourcing: Turning customers into creative directors
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- BBC News – News presenters warn over BBC strike plan
What?? Cuts to Shaun the Sheep caused by strikers!! Outrage!!!
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- BBC News – News presenters warn over BBC strike plan
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- The Color I want! « Notion Ink
Want an Adam (well, yeh, duh!). Then vote now for your favourite colour. Hels chose bright blue, which seems particularly unpopular. I'm surprised at how conservative voters are in their choices.
Notion_Ink Adam technology - BBC News – BT to roll out fibre broadband across Cornwall
We have FTTC here which I can gain access to as I'm on a business tariff. The cabinet is only 100 metres or so from our door, so we don't get too much loss over the copper cable. But others in our road are connected to the exchange itself, nearly two miles away, and report terrible connection speeds. You get what you pay for. And I'm not expecting FTTH any time soon here.
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- BBC News – Belgium’s beer sellers see trouble brewing
Beer – tick. Chocolate – tick. But no mention of that other great Belgian tradition – horse butchers.
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- BBC News – Belgium’s beer sellers see trouble brewing
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- BBC News – HQ chosen for South Downs National Park
A fine building. But, given the requirement for access by public transport, surely a town with a railway line would have been better? Petersfield? Lewes? Arundel?
South_Downs park - Kew News – One Fifth Of The World’s Plants Are At Risk Of Extinction
This is excellent research and should be a useful tool to focus minds on conservation. What is most worrying is that we are literally missing species that are not properly understood (or even discovered) before they are already at or near extinction. Potentially they could be very valuable for medicines, fibres or even for ornamental horticulture. So more knowledge is bound to help and, hopefully, this research will help to encourage action.
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- BBC News – HQ chosen for South Downs National Park
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- BBC – Newsbeat – ‘My details appeared on ‘porn’ list’
Interesting. The girl in this article doesn't seem to be wearing any clothes. But seriously, recipients of these letters from ACS:Law are in an invidious position as it is impossible to prove a negative – which is why most will simply pay the £495 just to make them go away.
news downloading filesharing law - BBC News – Relate survey suggests mid-life crisis ‘begins in 30s’
I'm not sure that any of this is surprising. With pressures from work, high expectations of children, increasing responsibilities to aging parents, it should not be surprising that people aged 35-45 are feeling under pressure. I'm not sure that those pressures are any different from those experienced by previous generations, although, in today's high-speed world, perhaps they are felt more keenly. In my view, just about every age in life has its pressures – for example, when you are four-and-a-half, the pressure is to finish your toast before you get dragged out the door to school.
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- BBC – Newsbeat – ‘My details appeared on ‘porn’ list’
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- Plane that manoeuvres without flaps developed – Telegraph
Of course, the Bleriot XI moves without flaps and has done so since 1908. It employs wing-warping, although the entire tailplane acts as an elevator. You can still see it flying at the Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden.
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- Plane that manoeuvres without flaps developed – Telegraph