Friday Ephemera
Big Man Japan. // Space Hoppers in Venice. // You Are Listening to Los Angeles. // Time lapse antennas. // Cassini meets Saturn. // Esoteric sausage. // Know your spiders. // Cells. // Water. // The world of pizza boxes. // Marmite products rated. Marmite cashews? Why was I not told? // Bridges seen from Google Earth. // Little street dramas. // Dogbrella. // 1920s Egypt, in colour. (h/t, Coudal) // National Public Radio, for people who are “more educated, fair and balanced than conservatives.” // All the cool kids will want one of these. // Big caves in Vietnam. (h/t, Dr Westerhaus) // Bill Bailey’s rather nifty guide to the orchestra.
Alligator sausage? You first.
The Egypt photos are great btw.
Bill Bailey’s rather nifty guide to the orchestra.
Worth watching just for the jazzy Belgian ‘Doctor Who’ theme.
Exterminez-vous!
“Exterminez-vous!”
If a theme tune can survive that kind of restyling, it’s probably a good one.
Shame the actual programme’s not up to much.
It’s more than a little disturbing that the huntsman spider on that ID chart link is animated!
M&S underwear now comes in fours sizes: small, medium, large and big man.
Everyone thank God.
I had some alligator sausage in New Orleans years ago, and it was quite tasty – so much so that it was too much like ‘normal’ sausage, and I wasn’t sure how much alligator I was actually getting – so the next evening I had an alligator steak – which was also delicious. And despite my reservations, it wasn’t some kind of half fish/half meat thing, but all meat – very much like guilt-free veal…;)
Can somebody please explain why the bridges look the peculiar way they do?
Can somebody please explain why the bridges look the peculiar way they do?
If you go into Google Earth (perhaps also maps.google.com – haven’t tried) and search for millau viaduct you will get a road map of the bridge environs in southern France. The map can be changed to satellite view and tilted. In this view the topographical features are shown as if you were there in a plane. That reveals nearly the same picture. Buildings such as the bridge are superimposed on a layer. That layer can be switched off. The roads themselves are on a different layer and clearly the roads “follow” the contours creating the illusion.
Brian,
It seems the effect is an imperfection of the Google Earth software itself, the particulars though escape me:
Then there’s the issue of claiming a basically unretouched bug in someone else’s software as one’s own artwork.
“Space Hoppers in Venice”
Are space hoppers smaller than they used to be? I remember them being much bigger.
I don’t mind if my dog gets wet; I just wish there were something easy to do to prevent it from getting incredibly muddy.
Sam,
“Are space hoppers smaller than they used to be?”
Yes. The one I had (in the 70s) was like this.
Ta for linkage,
Be careful of the Marmite Cashews they are incredibly ‘more-ish’ I’ve cut back to a pack a week now and think I’ve got it under control, honest.
Click the play button…
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cantina-Band/dp/B004NCCCE8