Curiosities

This is a collection of curiosities that I’ve come across. Just a few to start with but I’ll be adding more as I find them.

Do you remember the Abbey Road album by the Beetles? It featured a photograph of the fab four walking across an ordinary zebra crossing outside the Abbey Road Recording Studios and this crossing soon shot to world fame. There has been a web-cam where you can view this crossing for some time now and they have recently improved the bandwidth and have added sound! The crossing has now been given listed status.

A couple of BBC News articles have caught my eye. Last year, they ran an article on a race between a pigeon and broadband in delivering a large amount of data in Africa. Now someone has done it again down the east coast of England with similar results.

Sometimes things go wrong, people don’t get hurt, and we can laugh about them. Here is a small collection of “Oopsie Daisies!” Updated 1st February 2010.

Quantas Fault Log – some actual logged maintenance complaints and problems.

Doo-Wop Horses – an equine barber’s shop quartet. Allow the page to load fully then click on each horse in turn. Magical!
NOTE: This no longer works after an upgrade in the flash plug-in in Microsoft’s browser but it works just fine in Mozilla’s Firefox and in Apple’s Safari.

A repost from the American motor industry to Bill Gates – General Motors v Microsoft.

When I saw this I could hardly believe my eyes – An Australian Adventure.

An exposition on the Thermodynamics of Hell which I think some of you might enjoy.

Daily cartoon from Randy Glasbergen for your enjoyment!

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