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Amazing Pictures of Houses Overcome by Nature
on Sep 2, 2009 in Trivia abandoned buildings environment nature photos post apocalyptic urban decay Sweet Juniper via BoingBoing: Posted in Trivia Tagged: abandoned, buildings, environment, nature, photos, post apocalyptic, urban decay...
Librarians of the FUTURE!
on Aug 19, 2009 in Trivia Videos information JISC librarian libraries research terminator warhammer 40K JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee – although to me that’s always been as meaningless as the acronym) released a slick video recently canvassing opinion and conjecture on what libraries might look like 10 or 20 years down the line:...
Thomas Robert Malthus and Humanity’s Self-Destructive Nature
on Aug 16, 2009 in Miscellaneous Science environment genetics humanity population quote Wikipedia “The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man” via Thomas Robert Malthus – Wikipedia I’ve been reading The Spirit in the Gene recently (borrowed from Joss Winn), by...
Changed My WordPress.com Theme
on Aug 9, 2009 in Blogs & Blogging theme wordpress In an effort to make me actually write something here, I decided to revamp the look of the site with (what I think is) a nice, clean white two-column theme. Like it, hate it, indifferent, or think I should just shut up and write and stop messing on w...
Abandoned Scottish Village to be Demolished
on Jun 24, 2009 in Trivia abandoned bbc buildings photography polphail post apocalyptic urban decay The BBC reports that Polphail, a village built in Argyll in the 70s to meet the demands of the fledging oil industry, is to be demolished. The strange thing about Polphail is that it was never occupied: Keys still dangle on a board waiting for tenant...
Twitter Science?
on Apr 15, 2009 in Science Tech statistics twitter mashable retweet I came across the below while reading an @mashable tweet about how to retweet: What we see here is that while the number of followers exposed to a Tweet does have a positive effect on the number of times that Tweet is ReTweeted, it is a weak correlat...
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