What 100 year flood means

“And this is where you first start getting a sense that maybe engineering hydrology isn’t the most exact of sciences. …none of the Imperial units for these values agree, but if you do the math, the conversion factor is just about one, so we ignore it. We just leave it off! This is not something we take out to the fifth decimal place.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EACkiMRT0pc

Grace & Tony at Grain on Main

Grain’s got good food and beer, but you can’t expect good acoustics from a tiny stage crammed into a corner of a noisy bar.

Holiday Pi

This one’s for Ezra!


Medieval painted ceilings

There’s actually an international organization, based in France, that studies them.

The site’s all in French, but there are lots of enjoyable and interesting photos if you click around their archives.

British Museum Iron Age virtual exhibit

Heather writes:

One of my web design e-newsletters had a link to the indoors Google Street View of the British Museum. So I wandered around a bit and found this… Celtic Life in Iron Age Britain: A British Museum exhibition of Iron Age objects from collections across the UK.

mood tiles

Remember mood rings? Check out thermochromic tiles.

Chained libraries

Bruce Schneier‘s crypto-gram linked this, which in turn links some great images of medieval chained libraries.

Hereford chained library, courtesy MedievalFragments blog

London underground. No, not that one.

New Statesman:

How many of these once perfectly functioning and possibly still serviceable diggers are petrified underneath central London, like those Romans preserved cowering in the corners of houses in Pompeii? Estimates vary. One property developer I asked reckoned at least 1,000; another put the figure at more like 500.

BLDBLG:

London is thus becoming a machine cemetery, with upwards of £5 million worth of excavators now lying in state beneath the houses of the 1%. Like tools invented by M.C. Escher, these sacrificial JCB*s have excavated the very holes they are then ritually entombed within, turning the city into a Celtic barrow for an age of heroic machinery.

I suppose this is all very well and good until somebody blunders into a plague pit.

*A “JCB” is what a Briton calls an excavator made by Lord Joseph Cyril Bamburg, CBE.

3M Rube Goldberg

Or Heath Robinson, if you’re British.

David Byrne on music and architecture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se8kcnU-uZw

MS WCF (client) open-sourced

I don’t know if the world really needs another IPC mechanism, but there it is.

Bladerunner model builds on imgur

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Wonderful web site the Daily Overview.

Vauban style star fort by Vincenzo Scamozzi in Palmanova, Italy

it’s also a tumblr, whatever that is.

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The White Tower

The header today is a panoramic view of the Tower of London, taken by #1 son. This is only part of that panorama – the whole thing can’t really be made to fit WordPress’s header aspect.

When I was younger I had a mental image of the Tower as something resembling a chess rook, with the heads of traitors on spikes over the portcullis and shivering naked miscreants suspended in cages from the walls.

Even though I’ve known for decades that my vision of William the Conqueror’s citadel was totally wrong (well, except the heads and cages part) I was unprepared for the sheer size and magnificence of this fortress. I wish we’d had more time to explore, and I hope we can go back some day.

Inside the Instruments

German studio photographers Mierswa & Kluska shot these beautifully lit images from the inside of musical instruments for Bjoern Ewers and Mona Sibai as part of an advertising campaign for the chamber ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in 2009.

Contrabass
Pipe Organ
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High Voltage Cable Inspector Guy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tzga6qAaBA

Brick vault construction with no supporting forms

Highly skilled mason Hugo Martinez demonstrates the construction of a catalan vault in Querétaro, Mexico. Eight hours of work compressed into 12 minutes, so you can see the full development of the pattern.