Foam in Formentor
February 3rd, 2012
Adelaide Nature Reserve in London
February 3rd, 2012
Source: www.casweb.org
Adelaide Nature Reserve is situated between Adelaide Road, the main North East railway line and the auction with Primrose Hill road, NW3.
It is managed by LB Camden and the Adelaide Nature Reserve Association. The reserve is leased from Network Rail by LB Camden.
The reserve was co-founded by Ursula Granville in 1984 with the aim of developing and caring for this special site. The present site is approximately 0.9 ha in area and affords a fine view of the Primrose hill tunnel of 1837 which was considered a great feat of engineering in it’s time.
The reserve is home to some very rare species including the yellow meadow ant. In 1998 a rare plant the London Rocket was recorded. In 1998 an entomological survey discovered a chafer beetle not seen anywhere in Britain since the 1950s and last seen in Cheshire!
Work is carried out by the volunteer group and by LB Camden to maintain and improve the essentially meadow land habitat which supports a variety of grasshoppers, crickets and butterflies as well a wealth of other species. There is a pond supporting newts.
Contact: John Walsh 020 7435 5934 or Dave Lawrence 020 7974 8818.
A few remarkable visualizations
January 31st, 2012
Open source to record geographical coordinates over time: The Antimap Log. It is a shame that there are no more applications to visualize your own GPS data. The AntiMap Log records latitude, longitude, compass, speed, distance and time with this format
40.706006 -3.624071 360 0 0 761
40.706006 -3.624071 314 0 0 794
Who are these men and why are they dressed like that?
January 23rd, 2012
What is this photograph about?
The guys on the picture seem to know each other. The physicality of the portrait is clear not only from they rubbing shoulders in a packed group, but also from details like one hand and neck on a mate’s shoulder. And why do they all wear month-long beards?
It also strikes me the fact that every one of them poses with a different attitude and facial expression. We could describe their mood, from left to right as
- despondent with his lifestyle and thee attire on his head
- content and fraternal
- amused and ready to dash for the first beer
- dreamy and non-chalant
- resigned to being part of the group by fate or by accident
- mistrusting his own senses or intellect to comprehend the situation or its context
- pleased to have managed to dress up as a member of the crew of the Life of Brian
These are the possible captions that might explain the absurdity of this picture
- A team of Arab posing with a passing by gay mechanic in an oil well
- A group of Saudi princes posing with a gay model in an oil extraction conference
- A group of activists demonstrating for the rights of gay workers in oil drills
- The crew of an oil drill in Saudi Arabia who tragically their washbags at home and were ostracised by their worker fellows
Guess no more. These odd looking fellows were from left to right are: L. Gordon Cooper, M. Scott Carpenter, John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Virgil I. Grissom, Walter Schirra and Donald K. Slayton. They were the Mercury Seven, the original Mercury astronauts. They had just participated in some survival training exercises in Nevada in 1960.