Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Manchester Whit Walks

 The Whit Walks started in 1800 when the Sunday Schools gathered once a year to parade around town. Over time, the parades became associated with Whit Sunday, the seventh Sunday after Easter. They continued into the 1950s and have recently been resurrected. More information on this page.

I happened upon this year's Whit Walk entirely by accident when I cycled into town yesterday. I didn't even catch it all, but it took a good half hour to pass my position. I've uploaded pictures to Flickr and you can see all the photos tagged "whit walk" here.

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Spinneyworld

 Spinneyworld is up and running. The index page remains the same, but click on the world map now and you go to the blog. I'm still working on the manifesto for Spinneyworld, but the tag line comes close- local news from around the world.

A number of changes remain to be implemented. I'm going to change the css a little so that whilst the blog retains the look of the rest of the family it also has some aspects that differentiate it. There'll be a headline reader on the front page and I'll get a picture for the top of the sidebar.

Oh, and I'm going to try and recruit some bloggers. I'm looking for a blogger in every time zone if possible. Britain's covered, as it has Damian and me, and we may be able to get a Greek contingent. Which just leaves the rest of the world. If you're interested, get in touch. There's a link to the e-mail on the sidebar.

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Homebrew

 A selection of home built cycles. The recumbents, in particular, are stunning.

via BoingBoing

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Not so Stealthy

 Another cool find on a Google map satellite shot- not so well hidden stealth bomber.

Close by you'll also find two Blackbirds and a U2

via SmartMoneyDaily

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Now also appearing nightly at.....

 From the end of the week (though I got all eager and posted something today) I shall be guest blogging on the UAV Blog, which does exactly what it says on the tin. I don't know a lot about UAVs, but I'm hardly ignorant either and I fancy learning more about the state of the art so I can extrapolate when I start writing more Sounds of Soldiers.

This came about because Darren at Problogger is off for a month long holiday and asked for caretakers to look after his, quite profitable, stable of niche blogs. As well as myself there are a few other, probably more distiunguished, bloggers helping him out whilst he's away. Far too many of them are being added to my list of RSS feed subscriptions.

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Blank

 Blank Label Comics is a new "indie" webcomics collective. I don't know much about it except that it includes Spinneyhead sidebar fave Wapsi Square

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Monday, May 30, 2005

Wierd shit you run into on a Bank Holiday


I went into town to buy gardening gear, only to run into a long procession marching down Upper Brook Street. It turned out to be a modern version of the Whit walks, where the churches from all the parishes around Manchester come out and stroll about to make their presence felt.

I only had my phone cam to take pictures with. I've uploaded them to Flickr because I'm experimenting with using that for Spinneyworld pictures. Check out the Spinneyworld group here.

(I think the phone's camera is beginning to die. I'm sure the colour saturation is off and if you look at the periphery of each picture you'll see it's fuzzy.)

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Sunday, May 29, 2005

Aether

 I like the idea of aetherspace, a way of translating the electromagnetic environment into sound so you can hear all those radio frequency emmissions.

via Worldchanging

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