Category Archives: geekery

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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O2 New Street Birmingham Insurance Rip-Off

27 June 2010 – 12:40 pm

Boring post this, it’s just for Google to in case any other people are looking to see what’s happened. I popped and got an iPhone 4 the other day, it’s nice (and it won’t cost me much once I recycle the old 3G – and the battery was dying). I decided to stay with O2, […]

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Cat News In Briefs

22 January 2010 – 11:15 am

The Sun publish News in Briefs, which is simply-written right-wing content supposedly said by topless model. So Jon Hickman thought it would work  with boobs swapped out for kitties… Friday, January 22nd – HOLLIE, 22, from Manchester HOLLIE is furious that we?re shelling out for a battery of crackpot laws by Labour. She said: ?Whoever […]

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Data Visualisation

30 October 2009 – 6:49 pm
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Passive Agressive Email Marketing

23 September 2009 – 8:53 am

Got this today from CoTweet (which I like, it’s really the only CRM service for Twitter): “CoTweet is not for everyone. It’s designed for teams who are managing the front-line of the real-time web for their organizations. It’s for people committed to engaging customers in authentic two-way conversations, rather than just broadcasting messages to followers.… […]

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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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11 route, frame-by-frame

11 May 2009 – 9:20 pm

Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! YooouuuTuuube sort of cascades You Tube vids frame-by-frame across your browser. Hypnotic.

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Worthless Piece of Crap

14 April 2009 – 10:44 pm

A quick group blog we set up today, with the idea of getting to try new stuff — and trying to break it. Trying to hate it in the hope that that will be impossible, a possible cure for gadget lust: Worthless Piece of Crap

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Geotag the Internet – my rejected 4iP project

2 April 2009 – 2:34 pm

Continuing this week’s them of rejection (a bloke could get paranoid), I’ve just heard that my (more in hope than expectation) 4iP project has been knocked back. If you don’t know what 4iP is then a quick look at their website should help, if you don’t care then it doesn’t matter (basically, funding for “public […]

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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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