http://gimbo.org.uk/blog 6 years of rambling and mumbling Sat, 30 May 2009 20:26:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I love this idea [via lifehacker]. http://gimbo.org.uk/blog/2009/05/30/diy-magnetic-spice-rack/ You haven't experienced true joy until you've watched this cockatoo dancing to Ray Charles [via nicolas]. http://gimbo.org.uk/blog/2009/05/12/shake-a-shake-a-shake-a-tail-feather/ Alan Dix on the difference between how humans parse language, and how machines do so — and associated impacts on interaction. Interesting stuff, as ever. http://gimbo.org.uk/blog/2009/05/10/alan-dix-on-language-and-action-sequential-associative-parsing/ Heading to Cornwall on a train last Friday, I spotted something interesting as we neared Bristol Temple Meads: Eastside Roots, a community gardening project — look out for it by Stapleton Road station. http://gimbo.org.uk/blog/2009/04/29/eastside-roots/ I am that man. (Shame the sound quality on the video's so poor though.) http://gimbo.org.uk/blog/2009/04/28/i-once-told-her/ Christopher Hitchens gets waterboarded [via Dawkins]. http://gimbo.org.uk/blog/2009/04/24/believe-me-its-torture/ Anti-evolutionists sometimes use the human eye as an argument for a creator; here's David Attenborough explaining why that's tosh [via frosty]. http://gimbo.org.uk/blog/2009/04/22/the-evolution-of-the-eye/ If Philosophers Were Programmers [brunns]. Nice to see that Wittgenstein (or at least, one of the Wittgensteins) is also a Haskell man... http://gimbo.org.uk/blog/2009/04/21/if-philosophers-were-programmers/ Some truly incredible pictures of Saturn and its friends. http://gimbo.org.uk/blog/2009/04/21/cassinis-continued-mission/ Um... what? Thanks for that, Ravi. http://gimbo.org.uk/blog/2009/04/20/best-gimboland-blog-comment-yet/ He will be missed [via rhodri]. http://gimbo.org.uk/blog/2009/04/16/sir-clement-on-good-form/ Typogridphy — A Typographical and Grid Layout CSS Framework [via hacker newspaper via raganwald]. http://gimbo.org.uk/blog/2009/04/15/typogridphy/ 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice from Strunk & White — fascinating. (Author's homepage.) http://gimbo.org.uk/blog/2009/04/13/strunk-and-white-considered-harmful/ Fake People Tell Fake Stories About The Threat Of Gay Marriage [brunns]. http://gimbo.org.uk/blog/2009/04/13/fake-people-tell-fake-stories-about-the-threat-of-gay-marriage/ Cool: Modelling lightning with Haskell [via dons]. http://gimbo.org.uk/blog/2009/04/13/modelling-lightning-with-haskell/ If you think it shouldn't be illegal to photograph police officers, please sign here. If you don't think so, please watch this and then tell me why not. Thanks! http://gimbo.org.uk/blog/2009/04/10/sign-here-please/ This morning, my Dad opened an exhibition in the museum in my home town, of ninety photos taken by my great-grandfather, found (on glass plates) when Dad retired, and recently restored by him via digital photography. Here's an article on the BBC, including an audio interview with Dad, in ... http://gimbo.org.uk/blog/2009/04/10/edwardian-callington-photos-on-the-bbc-courtesy-of-the-gimblett-boys/ If you’re ever looking for a warning sign that you’re on the wrong side of an argument, suing Medecins Sans Frontieres is probably a pretty good clue. http://gimbo.org.uk/blog/2009/04/10/the-doctor-will-sue-you-now/ The Guardian have published video footage of Ian Tomlinson, a bystander caught up in last week's G20 protests in London, being struck from behind in the leg with a baton and pushed to the ground by a police officer as he walked away peacably with his hands in his pockets. ... http://gimbo.org.uk/blog/2009/04/07/video-of-ian-tomlinson-assualted-from-behind-without-provocation-by-a-police-officer/ Much fun to play with: ToneMatrix, a Tenori-on-like Flash jobbie [via rhodri]. Go! Now! Play! http://gimbo.org.uk/blog/2009/04/07/tonematrix-funnnn/