Enoch’s Hammer of Luddite fame, at the Tolson Memorial Museum. I gave a talk at the Pint of Science Festival – an international science festival that takes places at local pubs and cafes across the world – this evening.
Enoch’s Hammer of Luddite fame, at the Tolson Memorial Museum. I gave a talk at the Pint of Science Festival – an international science festival that takes places at local pubs and cafes across the world – this evening.
The pews of the Internet Archive back in 2018. tl;dr: Posts on this blog are now automatically archived, indexed and full-text searchable through The Rogue Scholar . The jury might still be out on whether the small or indie web will make a comeback, but I’ve personally enjoyed posting more on my blog here in recent months.
The dynamic footer of my website has been powered by a little aggregation of some of my personal data for about 5 1/2 years by now. Until recently, all the data related to my activity and physiology (steps, heart rate, sleep, body) came from an Oura Ring.
Last week, I attended “AI” UK – which was organised by The Alan Turing Institute and where I served in a minor role on the program advisory committee – and a workshop on Responsible “AI” , co-organised by some fellow fellows of the Software Sustainability Institute.
Eugenia and I made our first zine, available here , for our ongoing documentary photography project as if the sand were stone . The project focuses on how small villages & hamlets across the Argentinean Pampa are adapting in response to a shift in urbanism and transport – from rail to road. For our first zine, we selected 24 images, all made on black &
Get a copy of the first zine of the project As if the sand were made of stone is an ongoing documentary photography project that we (that is Eugenia and I) are working on. The project covers how small villages & hamlets across rural Argentina – in particular the Argentinean Pampa – are changing and adapting in response to transport shifting from rail to road.
Photo: VOICES festival Last week I attended the The European Festival of Journalism and Media Literacy , to join a panel on Artificial intelligence – Which skills do I need? . Moderated by Lee Hibbard, the panel consisted of writer Maria Farrell, computational linguist &
If you have spent any time on Mastodon and are intested in data visualisations, geography, RStats, or any of the intersections thereof, you are likely to have seen the stunningly beautiful 3D map visualisations that @terence has been creating with the rayshader package. I have been itching to get an excuse to play around more with this myself, and finally found a lovely one within the context of another little project.
The Wassail or orchard-visiting wassail is an English tradition in which people bless their fruit trees to ensure a good harvest come autumn. Typically, these celebrations and blessings are accompanied by song and dance – including Morris dancing – and bring the local community together.
Flickr as one of the old school photo sharing communities celebrated it 20th birthday on February 10th, 2024. To celebrate, there were photo walks in many different places around the globe, including in London. Beyond lots of Flickr themed swag, our photo walk also took us into the British Museum . The London Flickr group has a thread where you can find links and images of a lot of the other attendees.