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!