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This map is supposed to represent the quietest and loudest places in London.
Interesting? not at this resolution, as it kind of states the obvious: the quiet places (black) that can be easily noticed are … the parks and gardens. What a suprise.
It would be more interesting if the statistical data could be mapped on Google Earth which allows you to zoom in. That way you can really spot the quietest urban areas and maybe follows the noise trails.

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Universal Playground

Originally uploaded by ~Prescott.

Another HDR beauty. Very surpising is the presence of a kid playground and a radio telescope in the same image.

Skyline from the Bean

Originally uploaded by jswieringa.

It’s breakfast time, let’s fry the beans. I can see the bacon is hiding beneath the beans

One of my favourite series is returning. At last.
I hope there will be a UK airing soon too.

Futurama Returns: “GrumpySimon writes ‘Good news everyone! Straight from a one-eyed alien’s mouth - 13 new episodes of Futurama have been confirmed by Katey Sagal on Craig Ferguson’s Late Late Show. All the original actors have signed up too.’

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(Via Slashdot.)

The video mentioned in the quote below is quite impressive.
I wonder how the detection of human skin works.
It works for the sausage, may be it detects the resistance the material is applying against the saw?

Table saw that stops when it touches skin: “Mark Frauenfelder:
I posted something about the SawStop table saw on Boing Boing a couple of years ago. It has a mechanism that makes the saw blade stop rotating an instant after it comes into contact with human flesh (watch the amazing video of it in action here). Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools has a review of the SawStop from a happy user (who has not had to test out the safety feature yet.)

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(Via Boing Boing.)

Gira la pantalla de tu MacBook: “

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(Via www.faq-mac.com.)

ASCII World Cup: “

Tune your telnet to telnet ascii-wm.net 2006

Or read about it here (also has mirrors).

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(Via mir.aculo.us.)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5058362.stm

(via plasticbag.org)

Update:

Here PC doesn’t stand for Police Constable

Heizkraftwerk West I

Originally uploaded by Tagaloa.

This is HDR (High Dynamic Range) magic.
The photographer also describes his photographic parameters on the flickr page, which is a nice touch.

Anyway, the effect is fantastic, an outstanding work.

666-6666 telephone number gets a lot of calls from babies: “Mark Frauenfelder:
Bruce Stewart has a good story about the time he worked as a technician for a Jesuit university in San Francisco. When the university upgraded to a new phone system, the phone company gave them the 666 prefix, which upset some of he higher ups. It was too expensive to get a different prefix, so they accepted it. Bruce’s boss gave himself 666-6666, and Bruce got 666-6667.

As you can likely imagine, there were many jokes and good times to be had with these numbers. And some weird lunatic prank calls, though not a lot. But what drove my boss crazy most of all about having that fateful number was the amazing number of ‘googoo gaagaa’ calls he received. You know, those calls you get when an infant has gotten a phone off the hook and has inadvertently dialed you up and is cooing and babbling into the phone? Well, maybe you don’t, but trust me, if you ever get a phone number with all of the same digits, you will. Apparently pounding repeatedly on the 6 button is a fairly easy thing for a baby to do.

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(Via Boing Boing.)

It reminds me that earlier today it was:

06/06/06 06:06