Two hundred light painting by B. Rosen, via Flickr available by Creative Commons license According to the software which runs this site, this is the 200th post here at O’Really ? To mark the occasion, here are some stats via WordPress with thoughts and general navel-gazing analysis paralysis [1] on web analytics.
“This is how it feels to be City, this is how it feels to be small, this is how it feels when your team wins nothing at all.” [1,3] If you are not interested in Football Science, look away now.
Fire by John Curley, available via Creative Commons license.
An equation of love (x² + y² − 1)³ − x² y³ = 0 Former Mancunian James Lovelock runs the kind of a laboratory most scientists can only fantasise about working in as they grind through the humdrum bureaucracy of peer-review and never-ending grant applications. Lovelock is fortunate enough to run a completely independent, self-funded lab located in the beautiful West Country.
Olympic broadcasting by the BBC from Quay House, Salford Quays, Manchester The BBC is currently seeking external partners for collaborative innovation around BBC Online. This is happening through a series of events called BBC Connected Studio.
The App Trap: Why have just one Web App when you can have hundreds of mobile Apps?
Brompton, Brompton, Straight Outta Brompton. New Brompton dock launches in in Manchester. Bicycle sharing is becoming increasingly popular in cities around the world. London has Boris Bikes, Paris has Vélo Liberté: Vélib’ and New York should soon have thousands of new Bixi-bikes this summer. There are scores of public cycle hire schemes in other cities.
Sean Ryder, the original twenty-four hour Manchester party person of the Happy Mondays, spins the discs at the Wickerman festival in 2008.
Thought for the day: be nice to nerds because you might end of up working for them. This sound advice comes from DARPA defector and newly appointed Googler Regina Dugan (see picture below). What’s that you say?
Open Access (OA) publishing aims to make the results of scientific research available to the widest possible audience.
Androids by etnyk. What are they thinking? With more than three million Android devices activated on the 24/25th December 2011 [1] and something like 200 million (or more?) Android devices in total, there are nearly enough droids around to build a primitive brain.