Stories from an ambulance

A blog by an Ambulance driver in East London. Now in book form. Random, interesting and funny.

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GeoTagging in Flickr

Looks like the US is better served than Europe at the moment but give them a chance!

Flickr New Geotagging

Pong. Gone wild.

h4sh.com

Looks cr@ppy. But just try it. Insanely addictive. Stoopid too.

http://www.ie7.com/

Here comes a problem. Microsoft are really going to love this:

http://www.ie7.com/ leads to a big sign saying: "Get Firefox"!

snakes in a cinema

now that's scary...

Live Rattlesnakes Released In 'Snakes On A Plane' Theater: "Two live diamondback rattlesnakes were released in an Arizona movie theater during a showing of the new film 'Snakes on a Plane,' according to Local 6 News."

IE7 v Firefox 2.0

bit-tech.net | Internet Explorer 7 v Firefox 2.0

A nation waits...

the politically incorrect alphabet

A is for, er...

Freyja has got have one on her wall, once we decide what "F" should be!

My Dream App

My Dream App:

Welcome to My Dream App. You're about to be involved in a revolution in the software industry: a no holds barred, totally transparent and ridiculously low barrier version of Macintosh shareware development. Ever wished you had the programming chops to create a killer app? For the first time, you're going to have a chance to make those dream apps come true.

The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation

The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation: "The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation"

Overground / Underground Wombling free

or rather ever wondered where the underground really goes?

Well this google / underground map mashup will tell you: http://tubejp.co.uk/

Game over man

All of the games you remember, but slightly different:

http://eatpes.com/game_over.html

also check out Roof Sex (but as you might guess not safe for work - it's not as bad as you might think)

excel in-cell bar graphs

information aesthetics

These are cool and what a neat idea to use REPT...

the power of css

the best "power of css" site is probably css garden, but this guy has really harnessed css control for myspace, this myspace page really looks like no other I've ever seen:

www.myspace.com/shawnanigans

CensusScope -- Demographic Maps: An Aging Population

A site with interesting info graphics. Like this one which shows that all of the old people are huddling together in the middle of America for warmth (and in Florida)

CensusScope -- Demographic Maps: An Aging Population: "AN AGING POPULATION"

Noisy Children's Furniture

Children's Furniture with Music!

The toy chest would be very cool...

The Mechanical Turk

Nowadays computers are very very good at chess. But once upon a time this wasn't true. The first mechanised chess player was a thing called the "Mechanical Turk" that played chess against you by moving peices around with its hand etc. But it was actually a man inside not a machine.

Some things are really difficult for computers but easy for machines. And Amazon has decided to make a market in it.

http://www.mturk.com/

Small tasks and small rewards but you could do a few and make some money

Tony Wilson

Sometimes, it just seems that the original non-improved articles on wikipedia were better than the new ones:

Tony Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Tony Wilson"

Sadly they've "improved" it now.

Tony Wilson

Sometimes, it just seems that the original non-improved articles on wikipedia were better than the new ones:

Tony Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Tony Wilson"

Sadly they've "improved" it now.

This is amazing

this is from the first daily show after September 11th.

A very powerful and moving speech to camera.

I'd vote for Jon Stewart!

10 Ways to make yourself a YouTube Star

10 Ways to make yourself a YouTube Star: "What are the prime ingredients for YouTube success - what separates a viral hit from a barely-noticed miss? Poking around the top rated videos provides a few answers"

10 Ways to make yourself a YouTube Star

10 Ways to make yourself a YouTube Star: "What are the prime ingredients for YouTube success - what separates a viral hit from a barely-noticed miss? Poking around the top rated videos provides a few answers"

AQA the text question service

has some rather nice, but a bit weird artwork on their website. They claim that AQA means the end of the question mark and they provide this picture to prove just that:

Landmarks quiz

BBC NEWS | UK | Landmarks quiz

Quite a fun little quiz. They've taken famous locations and removed the famous landmarks and you have to guess where you are.

French Fries back on the menu

French fries are back on the menu in the US House of Representatives, three years after the name was ditched in favour of "freedom fries."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5240572.stm

Net neutrality

I'm going to write here the shortest primer of Net Nutrality ever:

Net Neutrality people think you should pay for an ammount of bandwidth and the more bandwith you buy the more you can use, but it doesn't matter what you use.

Anti-Net Nutrality people (generally telcos) think you should pay more to make a phone call over the internet or watch a movie than the rest of the stuff you do because they use more bandwidth everywhere in the network - and they want to be able to send you a bill at the end of the month rather than a flat rate that you pay now.

There has been a lot of mindless back and forth about this issue, but now after you have read this primer you are ready to appreciate the best e-mail ever written on the subject. It was sent to The Register and was written in Comic Sans font but read it and tell me the guy doesn't have the point pretty nailed down, taking as he does the view that you'll be buying from the telcos the right to get your video and telephone at a priority over the rest of the traffic.

Take it away Arah Leonard:

VoIP and Video over IP can go to hell.

Should the anti-neutrality side win, the World Wide Web will be slowed to a crawl and be much more likely to fall apart, even while the internet as a protocol survives. As the VoIP and IPTV flood the network with far more data than it was ever conceived of transporting these services will be boosted in priority while the actual World Wide Web gets downgraded into infamy.

And for what? Cheaper telephones and TV? Telephone services that don't use the internet already exist. They have their own lines. We don't need VoIP to run a telephone. It's only a new fad. Cable and satellite servies already exist. As do local channels on the regular airwaves. They also have their own data lines. We don't need IPTV to run a television. It's an even newer fad. But there's only one World Wide Web, and there is no other service that can provide for it. The internet is the World Wide Web. The World Wide Web is the internet. So if we destroy the World Wide Web just to create cheaper alternatives to telephone and television, what have we actually accomplished?

Net neutrality - the great debacle | The Register

Stephen Johnson's blog

As in the writer of Emergence and Everything bad is good for you.

Museum brings creationism to life

Museum brings creationism to life - Science - MSNBC.com: "PETERSBURG, Ky. - Like most natural history museums, this one has exhibits showing dinosaurs roaming the earth. Except here, the giant reptiles share the forest with Adam and Eve."

This article could be accurately summed up as, "Idiots continue to be idiots and are now actively recruiting".

A big change coming? Didn't think pictures could do this...

Microsoft Live Labs: Photosynth: "'What if your photo collection was an entry point into the world, like a wormhole that you could jump through and explore… '

- Blaise Ag�era y Arcas, Live Labs

Watch the video to learn how this new technology will change the way you think of photographs forever. "

What's on the radio right now?

YES.com

How to DJ your first set without knowing how

aurgasm: How to DJ your first set without knowing how :: your favorite music you've never heard: "I was asked to DJ a one-hour set, though I had no previous DJ experience. I didn't know how to beatmatch, transition smoothly, use Ableton or Traktor, and neither do you. You just have to be comfortable with being a laptop DJ. "