Category Archives: birminghamuk

Map of Birmingham— Inebriance Survey

7 January 2011 – 8:07 pm

Map of Birmingham: Inebriance Survey 2011 PDF Now that is what I call a map. Every pub in Birmingham as available from the Open Street Map XAPI (on 6/1/11), for use as a navigational aid. Plotted as a mapless map with Maperitive, and text tided up in Illustrator, no data was added or removed (except […]

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Someone Once Told Me

22 February 2010 – 10:54 am

Here I am, looking a little grumpy, as part of Mario Cacciottolo’s really rather lovely ‘Someone Once Told Me‘ project.

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Investigative Journalism

8 November 2009 – 6:28 pm
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Is this ‘unique’ or are the media keeping people dumb?

4 June 2009 – 10:05 am

The Birmingham Mail covered this exchange on Pete Ashton’s blog, which is good — it’s a story. To sum up, an advertising company working on behalf of the Rep Theatre were using reverse graffiti, they — mistakenly one would assume — used it on a monument (that it’s a monument isn’t immediately obvious, if you don’t […]

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Yahoo’s When isn’t so hot on where

20 May 2009 – 4:03 pm

Supposedly “hyperlocal” thing from Yahoo, hasn’t quite got the “local” bit, yet. Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch!

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Susan Boyle Swine Flu Sex and MPs

30 April 2009 – 10:37 pm

Local MP Sion Simon (finding his way on Twitter) ReTweeted a (vaguely amusing, but not ear-shatteringly funny) witicism: “I’m not saying Susan Boyle caused swine flu. I’m just saying that nobody had swine flu, she sang on TV, people got swine flu.” It’s about Now Show standard, topical, smirk-worthy rather than a belly-laugh — what […]

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Google’s magic anus

23 March 2009 – 8:46 pm

Created by the way Google has stitched two of its Street View panoramas in Smethwick, take the advert for a filum and a moving bus and, oops:

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Google Street View fly-by

19 March 2009 – 6:21 pm

Using a route planner for Google Maps, and a screen capture app to capture the screen. This is sort of what it would look like to drive from King’s Heath towards the town centre — the route was going further, but there were gaps in which roads were covered by Street View.

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First cat on Google Streetview UK – and it’s Felix from next door

19 March 2009 – 9:42 am

I thought I’d got myself on the the Google Streetview, but they must have taken photos going both ways up our road. They did capture young Felix from next door. I’m loving going round spotting things, more soon.

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The17

18 March 2009 – 5:12 pm

I’ve just had a email inviting me to be in The17 for a “performance” in April (St George’s Day). I’m stupidly excited.

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