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Jul. 25th, 2010
Sunday Links
Jul. 25th, 2010 10:14 am- Western Pond Turtles Released in the Wild - ZooBorns
- Pilot ejects an instant before fighterjet crashes Amazing photographs
- How To Survive a Plane Crash Useful advice for air travellers
- How to make Spider Silk Thread
- Brooklyn Navy Yard: The Paymaster Building Another fantastic set of pictures from Nathan Kensinger
- A history of mass extinctions on Earth
- Noctilucent clouds BBC News - Audio slideshow:
- Every bad guy from Doctor Who conveniently presented as an infographic
- Every Doctor Who Theme 1963 - 2010
- The periodic table of irrational nonsense
- A Brief History of Computer Icons Slightly scary how many of these I remember ...
- Tesseract 101 Everything that you ever wanted to know about four dimensional hypercubes but were afraid to ask
Beer Drinkers (and Hell Raisers)
Jul. 25th, 2010 07:03 pmThe salt and pepper squid last night was rather nommy, but it left me with the approximate hydration levels of a prune and I woke up at three in the morning gasping for a drink. I staggered downstairs and fortunately a can of cola out of the fridge did the trick.
Today has mostly been about recovering after the excesses of yesterday with a lie in and a much needed afternoon nap, as well as the usual two walks in the woods with the dog which served to clear the old noggin with a bit of fresh air.
I've played a bit of Baldur's Gate II this afternoon, investigating the shadow temple in the Umar Hills. I can't remember this bit from the last time that I played it, but my main character is a ranger and this seems to be a ranger themed quest, so I suspect that might be it. Good fun, but the shadows are a pain to kill needing mucho magic.
In apps news, I've downloaded the BBC news app which is rather nifty as well as an RSS app called Mobile RSS which I thought I'd try out. It seems to work quite happily with Google Reader which is my aggregator of choice and is easier to read than the web app version in Safari. I'm trying the free version at the moment, but I may well shell out on the paid version at some point. We shall see.
Today has mostly been about recovering after the excesses of yesterday with a lie in and a much needed afternoon nap, as well as the usual two walks in the woods with the dog which served to clear the old noggin with a bit of fresh air.
I've played a bit of Baldur's Gate II this afternoon, investigating the shadow temple in the Umar Hills. I can't remember this bit from the last time that I played it, but my main character is a ranger and this seems to be a ranger themed quest, so I suspect that might be it. Good fun, but the shadows are a pain to kill needing mucho magic.
In apps news, I've downloaded the BBC news app which is rather nifty as well as an RSS app called Mobile RSS which I thought I'd try out. It seems to work quite happily with Google Reader which is my aggregator of choice and is easier to read than the web app version in Safari. I'm trying the free version at the moment, but I may well shell out on the paid version at some point. We shall see.