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Urban Areas in the Contiguous United States (via Wikipedia) All urban areas with a population of over 40,000. I love a good map.

Urban Areas in the Contiguous United States (via Wikipedia)

All urban areas with a population of over 40,000. I love a good map.

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You’re the devil in me, I brought in from the cold

You’re the devil in me, I brought in from the cold

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Styx — Come Sail Away (single version)

Because yes.

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Elevation Profiles in Google Earth

How brilliant is this? Draw a path between two points in Google Earth and then select ‘Show Elevation Profile’. Hours of fun.

Here is my daily drive to work:

Here is my walk from my old flat to the university’s geography department. You can tell it’s Sheffield, can’t you:

Those are just two relatively short journeys, but you can do the same thing with whole countries or continents.

Here’s Scotland from south to north:

And here’s going over the Himalayas from south to north:

Like I said, hours of fun.

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Survivors of the Charge of the Light Brigade (photograph by Roger Fenton) As with most Wikipedia pages I read, I can’t remember how I ended up on this one, but I did. That’s when I saw this photograph. Click through the photo for a large version. It wasn’t until I was going to post it here that I noticed the photo had been taken by Roger Fenton, whose photograph Valley of the Shadow of Death was the subject of an Errol Morris article in the New York Times a few years ago, which is one of my favourite articles of all time.

Survivors of the Charge of the Light Brigade

(photograph by Roger Fenton)

As with most Wikipedia pages I read, I can’t remember how I ended up on this one, but I did. That’s when I saw this photograph. Click through the photo for a large version.

It wasn’t until I was going to post it here that I noticed the photo had been taken by Roger Fenton, whose photograph Valley of the Shadow of Death was the subject of an Errol Morris article in the New York Times a few years ago, which is one of my favourite articles of all time.

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New Year’s Eve

Time and alcohol intake were both measured by the amount of headgear being worn.

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flyingscotsman: Well played IMDb, well played. (link)

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Well played IMDb, well played. (link)

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Davey Dance Blog — All I Want for Christmas (Rockefeller Center 2007)

It’s only been four years, but watching this video is as much a part of my Christmas experience as eating too much food, drinking too much booze, and family parties where everyone eats too much food and drinks too much booze.

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twink: Supertopic - .gif it to me baby

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Supertopic - .gif it to me baby

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