Hacks and experiments with cultural heritage content, from James Morley
Is this the first time I’ve ever blogged The Sun newspaper? It may be the last. But having gone down to Wakehurst Place, Kew’s country garden, at the weekend to cut our own Christmas tree, this rather odd story – The Sun Online – News: Christmas tree’s a fir cop, Read more …
Damien Whitworth (who he?), writing in the Times Online, eloquently describes a situation I have often found myself in, namely looking at other people’s kids doing stuff I’d bawl mine out for doing, and desperately wanting to say say something but wondering how. In his words: I made a real Read more …
Hardly the Blooming miracle they claim it to be, but it’s been at least a few weeks since someone, somewhere in the world had a titan arum in flower. This time it’s Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens’ turn and their justified claim to fame is that they have managed to get Read more …
I’ve just discovered that Google has launched its own blog search. Not quite sure how they determine what a blog is to get their data, but I gave up worrying when I rather vainly checked and found that catchingtherain was indexed. For a sample search i also had a look Read more …
I was amused (first time it’s happened in ten days, hence no posts lately!) to read this story about an undeniably very odd chap who likes to check out people’s physique it would seem. As a result, he has been convicted of harrassment and as part of his punsihment he Read more …
As a collector of silly signs the BBC piece Beijing stamps out poor English struck a chord and gave me much amusement. The Chinglish photo pool on Flickr is a real ‘must see’. And if you wondered where the tile of this post came from, see this one.