The oldest known portrait, 26,000 years old
Posted: Mar 17 2013 | Tag: History
Mark Holland
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Sergei Mikhailovich Prokhudin-Gorskii
Between 1909 and 1912 and again in 1915, Prokhudin-Gorskii won the support of Tsar Nicholas II to undertake an ambitious project to document the people and places of the Russian Empire. He traveled across 11 Russian regions in a specially designed railroad car that was given to him by the Transportation...
Posted: Mar 17 2013 | Tag: History
HSL colour picker
Works best in a Webkit browser.
Open the frame directly to view the Javascript source
Posted: Mar 10 2013 | Tag: Coding
Kenny Ball - ‘So Do I’ Live
RIP Kenny. My wife and I saw him playing at the Chichester Festival Theatre with Humphrey Lyttelton and a rather frail George Melly. They've all gone now.
Posted: Mar 7 2013 | Tag: Music
RIP Sergei Prokofiev
Posted: Mar 5 2013 | Tag: History
Sixty years after Stalin
Posted: Mar 5 2013 | Tag: History
Cycling and Brain Science
Article in The Atlantic Monthly
Posted: Mar 1 2013 | Tag: Cycling
Still crazy, half finished
Posted: Feb 28 2013 | Tag: Music
Ku Klux Klan on a ferris wheel
Posted: Feb 28 2013 | Tag: History
Smiley's People
I spent last week watching an episode of 'Smiley's People' per day. Unfortunately I had to read the plot synopsis on Wikipedia after to work out what was going on.
Of course it's still absolutely terrific though.
I'd be so useless as a spy. So not street-smart. I'd be like Denholm Eliott's character...
Posted: Feb 23 2013 | Tag: Television