History – Page 2

Quad Flight Over Cork

24/04/2014

I can see myself watching this daily for a week, looking for more and more of Cork’s oddities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRgYuK4epfM

What I love most about perspectives like this is the inside of city blocks, the cramped mess of buildings that they end up, but usually with little cubbies of light and even greenery. Speaking of which, I had absolutely no idea there was that much green behind Shandon. None. Really must pop in there some day, I’ve put it off for years.

Well done that man. I’d love to know what quad he has, the handling and video are, again, superb. The comments say it’s DJI Phantom, but given the flight time and distance, I’m skeptical. Whatever it is, it puts the cheap Chinese heap I bought to try to shame. :)

Pana Around 1900

23/01/2014

Donncha posted this photo of the Father Mathew statue from around 1900, but feck that, look at Pana, it’s barely recognisable!

The Old Cork Xmas Decs

29/11/2013

Via freshpopcorn on Boards. I know they had their problems, bulbs in particular, but these are what I think of as proper xmas decs, with proper xmas colours. The white ones bores me; the blue ones infuriate me.

World War II in Europe: Every Day

08/10/2013

Brilliant visualisation of losses and gains in WW2. Although quite why they did it in Paint is beyond me.

Apollo 11 Lunar Landing

04/06/2013

Fab interactive mockup of Apollo 11, with video from the lander, annotated loops of the flight director and air-to-ground comms, even Armstrong’s heartbeat and more. Brilliant.

Alexander Rossi In A Lotus 49

11/04/2013

Speaking of struggling and fighting and biting, here’s Caterham reserve driver Alexander Rossi wrestling a 1967 Lotus 49 around the Circuit of the Americas in Texas.

Gears! And a clutch! But can you imagine what it would have been like on 1967 tyres!

Why Doesn’t MTV Play Music Videos Anymore?

20/11/2012

1 Year of the NY Times

20/07/2011

This is mesmerising!

Phillip Mendonça-Vieira: Due to an errant cron task that ran twice an hour from September 2010 to July 2011, I accidentally collected about 12,000 screenshots of the front page of the nytimes.com.

Drunk History

16/10/2010

This is brilliant: get someone locked and get them to talk about something historical, interlace with reenactments with real actors. Unfortunately most of them are American history, but here’s a fab one about Tesla with Crispin Glover:

Zuckerberg the Douche

09/03/2010

I’m sure I’ve called Mark Zuckerberg a scumbag here before, usually because of his total disregard for privacy. This is the other reason.

I don’t feel all that sorry for the guys at Harvard that were done over, their handling of it must be a constant embarassment to the college with one of the most respected business schools in the world.

I don’t agree with the opinion that that’s “just how America works” though, and it certainly doesn’t stop Zuckerberg’s behaviour being that of a total doucehbag. I don’t doubt for a second that he’s still running the website and the business the exact same way today.

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