Pink Shoes
I haven't taken part in #ShoesMonday for a while but these were too good to pass up. Or too awful to pass up. At the very least they were too pink to pass up. Spotted at Gunwharf in Portsmouth yesterday. Curated by +Laura Harding +Olga Kafka +Terry Fabre +Mee Ming Wong +Bernd Schaefers +Pablo Luis Gonzalez +Paul van de Loo Google+: View post on...
Previously, In Science
Okay, this is another attempt by me to force my hand at updating the site regularly without relying solely on posts automatically coming in from Google+ as everyone likes variety. Well, I like variety anyway and I’m the one who really counts here. So, a frequent (let’s not pretend it’s going to be regular because I think we all know me well enough by now to know that’s not going to happen) update about recent happenings in the world of science will begin today. Why science? Because it’s one of the categories I categorise this site’s content into, that’s why. I don’t want to create another category. Also: I like science. Also: science is cool. I could have decided to go with a frequent posting about events in the world of geography but it just wouldn’t have had the same wow factor. Enough waffle. To the science news! Mars, Curiosity Big science news has come from Mars and the Curiosity rover which recently landed there safely despite extreme complexity in the manoeuvre and a track records of successful probes on Mars little better than flipping a coin. Martians have not been involved in stacking these odds against us. That would be mental. Martians couldn’t care less. They’re a very relaxed dust-based hive mind. Curiosity (or the Mars Science Lab to give it its less-inspiring name) has had a software upgrade now and has started sending back some more-detailed photos from its surroundings – particularly Mount Sharp (named after slavery abolitionist Granville Sharp who the mountain looks a bit like in profile) – so if you are super-keen on seeing rocks and ground in better resolution than John Logie Baird ever thought possible then you’re a very happy bunny indeed. Coneheads I love that movie. That’s not science news. It’s not news. And it’s not science. However… According to World Science: “In a trend that can be identified going back to the mid-1800s, [white, American] U.S. skulls have gotten bigger, taller and narrower as seen from the front, said Richard and Lee Jantz, a husband-and-wife team of forensic anthropologists at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. They also found that faces have become significantly narrower and higher, though this shift is less pronounced than those affecting the whole cranium.” The article also goes on to state that “[a] larger head could allow for greater intelligence” and it’s there that I started laughing too much to continue. I don’t like statements like that. A larger head could equally allow for greater room for bees to hide. Has anyone checked if the decline in bee population is connected to cranial development in American...
The Red Head Gang
A little after noon found me walking down South Street from the north and it was in this place and at this time that I spotted – through squinted eyes on account of the sun's position directly ahead of me – an explosion of reds and whites at eye level. Aha! I thought. It could only be Chichester's famous Red Head Gang (not to be confused with the equally fantastic Red Hand Gang from Canada in the 1970s) out for a bit of a neighbourhood patrol. The ladies of the gang were deep in conversation as I approached – I heard the words "protection" and "respect" and the phrase "break his legs" in hushed tones – but I couldn't take a photo. Not out of fear, of course, because I am at least as tough as five elderly women sporting red headwear. No, I couldn't take the snap because they were backlit by that accursed ball of plasma 93 million miles away! A pox on it! I needed to get the sun at my back. This meant walking past the gang and turning around. I've turned around before and felt confident that this manoeuvre would not be beyond my abilities and so it was to be but, alas! The ladies had started to move on in the opposite direction! I let out my best Muttley grumble and took a shot of their backsides. I don't normally take shots of elderly gang members' backsides but I don't think it came out too bad. Submitted for #SaturdayStyle (or #SAS ) curated by +lynn langmade and +lane langmade because there's a sub-theme today of hats (or headwear in general) today. Google+: View post on...
Disco Triple
One of my favourite types of music and I haven’t updated the site with a random trio of videos celebrating the genre? Why, that’s the sort of thing that needs to be addressed right now! Sylvester – You Make Me Feel Mighty Real (with a few seconds of Patrick Hernandez at the start) Andrea True Connection – More, More, More The Trammps – Disco...
Alley Call
A damning indictment of the times we live in when you happen upon sad scenes like this: a girl unable to afford a phone app that makes it sound like she's phoning from an alley is forced to hunt down an actual alley to make her call in order to retain social standing amongst her peers. Damn this global recession! Damn it to hell! Google+: View post on...
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