RT @NomadKeith: If you’re going to see the Iron Bridge at Ironbridge … it’s ‘undr wraps’ at the moment! #pttravel t.co/hIZJWFXBC…
RT @Stegsythedog: It’s volunteer week and has anyone cut my grass, no they bloody haven’t, it’s a con
RT @ianwalker: Interesting new data on how the benefits of speed awareness courses drop off over time. Presumably people return to old habi…
RT @BFI: Gorgeous colour footage of Soho in 1956 #LondonHistoryDay #BritainOnFilm t.co/75bVvKBpm…
RT @EH_Stonehenge: Greetings from Stonehenge to the American sun watchers. www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl…
RT @UMusicPub_UK: Huge congratulations to Shane MacGowan for winning The Ivors Inspiration Award @TheIvors @BASCA_uk🏆👏🎉 #ShaneMacGowan #The…
….because I’m not really as old as the hills
For me it would probably be something by One Direction or maybe Ed Sheeran
#TodayILearned
How-To Geek @howtogeek Did You Know? Despite their radically different sizes, the Moon and the Sun appear nearly the same size in the sky. This coincidence hinges on the Moon being 1/400th the Sun’s size and 1/400th the distance from Earth.
“Whenever any result is sought [from the Analytic Engine], the question will then arise—By what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?”
Charles Babbage, writing a good part of my job description, in 1864.
Via @robconery’s book
In which @SamConniff explains to Ed Miliband that pirates were proto-socialists who probably founded the Co-operative movement
With a yo-ho-ho me hearties
RT @Billbrowder: In the back of the Spanish police car going to the station on the Russian arrest warrant. They won’t tell me which station…
Once again….it seemed very strange to see our local hospital dramatically featured on @BBCNewsnight, but I was left with renewed admiration for the staff at Salisbury District Hospital, and pride in our NHS
#TodayILearned that in #Powershell on linux, although you can cd to a folder where the slashes go in the ‘wrong’ direction, you have to get the slashes ‘right’ for [http://System.IO.Path] to work
The @nytimes says ‘Britain is looking less like the rest of Europe and more like the United States’
Sadly….they don’t mean in a good way
#TodayILearned that the last prosecution under the Witchcraft Act in the UK was in 1944
(via @littleatoms)
#TodayILearned
Mark Mason @WalkTheLinesLDN Happy 50th to Kylie Minogue, whose first name is the Aboriginal word for ‘boomerang
#TodayILearned that ‘Scooby’ is short for ‘Scoobert’
No disrespect to the Maltings, but it’s hardly Salisbury’s ‘main shopping area’!
Real saints are better than scouse saints!