Walking into a delicatessen around here almost seems like walking into a Python sketch now. As well as English cheeses being harder to find, it appears that French cheeses may be next on the list to go. The guy at the Newtown Deli was complaining that he has had a lot of trouble getting his usual supplies, and I couldn’t… Read more →
One of the mapping blogs I follow, CloudMade, turned up a cute little diversion in the form of a way to generate trihexaflexagons, where each of the three faces is a layer on the map: “hexaflexamaps”, so to speak. It’s a nice way to switch between (say) a cycle map, a topographic map, and a street map. OpenStreetMap is good… Read more →
On the way home from work, this evening, I heard a loud bang from behind. On the far side of the road were three cars, one stopped ahead of the other two, one flipped on its side and pointing almost backwards and one plowed into a power pole. I think that the first had stopped suddenly when he saw a… Read more →
