February 18, 2006
Purely selfish point of view
You should all go and sign the Petition for Public Access to Geographic Data in Europe. I won't even try explaining why, because Jo Walsh has done a better job of it already on the openstreetmap mailing list.
From a purely selfish point of view, of course, better access to free geodata in Europe would make running The Open Guide to Nottingham both easier and more useful, since at the moment three different types of data need to be entered independently for a given location, even though the data to calculate all 3 from just 1 is out there — the 3 types being postcode, address and co-ordinates.
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April 01, 2005
Glueless structures
Some quickfire content today, since I can't think of anything humourous to fool you all with.
- Bored engineers are very scary, but often entertaining. Mitch Fincher, for instance, built a bunch of glueless structures out of 1 cent coins.
- Scientific American have finally stopped being a partisan "science" publication, and given fair consideration to all points of view.
- The Open Guide to Nottingham has a new design, thanks in no small part to to Joe, part of the Nimoll conspiracy, and photos from Carl Ebrey and others.
- Readers in the Manchester area who've been jealous of people in Oxford, London and Nottingham can now rejoice, for they too have their own OpenGuide. It's very new, though, so needs contributors.
- Lancaster now has one too, but I don't think I have any readers there. Do I?
- In the land of Winer-watching, Dave no longer seems to claim to be the original blogger, just the inspiration for many of the mainstays of the blogging world — definite progress on getting in touch with reality, I feel. However, he still seems to think that the EFF opposes copyright altogether, and to completely misunderstand the Creative Commons licences, but he's definitely doing much better than he was.
- You'll either get this one or you won't.
Happy (mailman, white rabbits, April Fools, 1/4 of the year already gone) day, folks!
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