It’s that time again. Nominations are open for this year’s Manchester Blog Awards. I’m not sure I have anything that fits neatly into any of the categories (political blog, personal blog, arts and culture blog, best new blog), though I think I’ll nominate How to Save the World for Free as a political blog and Spinneyhead in the personal and arts and culture categories.
Over at Finkbuilt they’re getting all nostalgic and recreating a classic Tamiya radio controlled car from their youth.
via Jalopnik
Technorati tag: Scale Models
Greenhouse gasses are causing shifts in rainfall patterns, leading to summers like this one (so far the wettest since records began). Just to make things more complicated, this heavier precipitation is going to alternate with hot summers like last year, but in entirely unpredictable ways.
Aside from focussing on the root cause of all of this I think it’s time to do some better planning around water use. Perhaps every new build should have mandatory rainwater storage for grey use (toilets etc.) All of those tanks would provide a buffer during heavy rain fall that would lessen run off and thus flooding and save water in dry spells. Whilst we’re about it, how about fines for the fools who concrete over their gardens and/or rewards for anyone who rips the paving up and plants a lawn.
Neither of these measures woudl stop flooding, particularly with water volume such as that seen in the last week, but they could soak up overflow in lesser events, and cut the burden on reservoirs.
Technorati tag: EcoHouse
Russia’s been having a summer of heavy rain as well, flooding a number of cities. Ingenious lunatics have just used the flooded streets as an excuse to create a new sport- Street surfing.
Just a minute of footage of the fish tank. This is just edited highlights, cut so there’s as many fish as possible in frame at any one time. It even catches some of the (possibly sexual) tension between two of the barbs.
I’ve just been updating the 100 Things to do list and realised that I could cross a few off.
Producing Memory means that I’ve made a film. I’m doing pre-production (ie writing a script, mostly) on the next Spinneyhead production and looking for actors and others to help out.
I recently crossed the 100 Gbyte threshold of MP3s (though I’m nowhere near owning a thousand albums, that would require far more disk space).
I was an extra for a TV programme earlier this month, and I’ll be looking out for more opportunities to do it again.
I’ve also crossed off Go Guerilla Gardening, which I have done, even if the results haven’t been very successful.
Some of the Things in the hundreds have been drafted in to fill gaps in the list, for the sake of neatness. No new Things have been added, even though I am now below 100 total. However, I am open to suggestions, and offers of help with the remaining ones (particularly from cheerleaders) will be gratefully accepted.
If you read Spinneyhead through RSS (and I know there’s at least one of you who does) could you make sure you’re subscribed through the Feedburner version of the RSS feed. I’m just trying to de-clutter stuff a little, and if you’re all subscribed through the one place it’ll help me know how many of you there are.