Your Wikipedia find of the week

[rogerzilla]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph

A term most familiar to readers of J E Gordon's simple engineering book "Structures", although he spelt it differehtly.  The best modern example is probably film grain added in post-production to digitally-shot Hollywood movies.  Also, the obsession with making any large areas of plastic either wood- or leather-grained, although the latter has died off over rceent years.

[Cudzoziemiec]

This might be of interest to Audaxers (and others) staying in Aust:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aust
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Aust Ferry
Main article: Aust Ferry

Bob Dylan was photographed in 1966 standing outside the Aust Ferry ticket office. In the murky background is the Severn Bridge. The photo was used to publicise Martin Scorsese's film about Dylan, "No Direction Home".

I went there today. Just because. You can see the ruins of the ferry ticket office, with a turnstile and small building, half-brick, half-wooden, and a concrete path down to the remains of the wooden jetty. It's a surprisingly popular spot with people looking for fossils or flotsam and jetsam or something, and families with dads yacking on about the old ferry when they were a lad. Triassic cliffs, red, yellow and black, rather pretty.

And it wasn't there that the Romans allegedly forded the Severn - it was further up at Purton (there's a Purton both sides of the river, opposite each other). I can't quite believe it - even if the water was low enough, you'd sink in the sand and mud.

[mattc]

http://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

The presence of a scottish wikipedia, with articles about Finnish rock bands, must prove that disk-space and bandwidth are now much too cheap.

[Kim]

It's worth it for http://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose alone.

[RJ]

The people of Eckernförde are particulary known for their fondness for ice-cream, which they often enjoy by the seaside on warm Summer's days.

[RJ]

It's worth it for http://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose alone.

Not to mention http://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airn

Iron is a chemical element in the periodic chart that haes the seembol Fe (L.: Ferrum) an atomic nummer 26. Airn is a group 8 an period 4 Metal. Airn is kent for being the last element made bi stellar nucleosynthesis, an thus the maist wechtie element that disna require a supernova or seemilar catacleesmic event for tae be furmed. It is, tharefore, the maist rowthie wechtie metal in the universe.

[rogerzilla]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsinkable_Sam

[graculus]

Made good use of his nine lives I see.

[clarion]

Four facts about two bands, of varying interest:

Frankie Goes To Hollywood's drummer had the same name as Saxon's.

The video for Relax was filmed at Wilton's Music Hall.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_goes_to_hollywood

Toto Coelo's I Eat Cannibal was written & produced by Barry Blue.  Yes, that Barry Blue.

Bob Holness' daughter was in Toto Coelo.  No, really?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toto_Coelo

[Cudzoziemiec]

Urrggh. I do hope you weren't prompted to look up Toto Coelo by my recent "Is cannibalism legal?" thread. Earworming "I eat cannibal" is a fate worse than being eaten alive. Almost.

[clarion]

It was Steve Lamacq's fault.  He played it.

I have no excuse for FGTW.  I was listening to Radcliffe & Maconie, when they played Double Dutch, by Malcolm Maclaren, who managed Jimmy The Hoover, who had a Rutherford (Mark), and I wondered if it was the same one as in Frankie (Paul).  Errr, no.

[rogerzilla]

I liked FGTH.  Like The Stone Roses, they held the world in the palm of their hand, then spent too long getting the difficult second album out and vanished.  The irony is that it's the *third* album that's supposed to be the difficult one, because if you get the second one out reasonably quickly, people buy it anyway, hoping it's as good as the first one.

[Bledlow]

There are some complicated parts of the world -

http://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8C%D5%A5%D5%B5_%D4%B2%D6%80%D5%A5%D5%A4%D5%A2%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%AB

Ռեյ Բրեդբերի (անգլերեն՝ Raymond Douglas "Ray" Bradbury 1920թ․ օգոստոսի 22, Ուոկիգան, Իլինոյս, ԱՄՆ — 2012թ․ հունիսի 5, Լոս Անջելես, ԱՄՆ) ամերիկյան նշանավոր ֆանտաստ գրող, ֆանտաստիկ ժանրի ստեղծագործությունների համար տրվող «Նեբյուլա» և «Հյուգո» գրական մրցանակների դափնեկիր։ Բրեդբերիի բազմաթիվ ստեղծագործություններից առավել հայտնի են «Մարսի տարեգրությունները» (1950, անգլերեն՝ The Martian Chronicles) պատմվածքների ժողովածուն, «451 ըստ Ֆարենհայթի» (1953, անգլերեն՝ Fahrenheit 451), «Գինի խլածաղկից» (1957, անգլերեն՝ Dandelion Wine) վիպակները, ինչպես նաև «Ամպրոպի ձայնը» (1952, անգլերեն՝ A Sound of Thunder), «Աշխարհի վերջին գիշերը» (1951, անգլերեն՝ The Last Night of the World), «Ողջ ամառը մեկ օրում» (1954, անգլերեն՝ All Summer in a Day) պատվածքները և այլն:

http://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A0%E1%83%94%E1%83%98_%E1%83%91%E1%83%A0%E1%83%94%E1%83%93%E1%83%91%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98

რეიმონდ დაგლას ბრედბერი (ინგლ. Ray Douglas Bradbury; დ. 22 აგვისტო, 1920 - გ. 6 ივნისი, 2012) — ამერიკელი მწერალი, რომელიც მოღვაწეობდა ფანტასტიკის, საშინელებათა, სამეცნიერო ფანტასტიკისა და დეტექტივების ჟანრში.

[Cudzoziemiec]

The first one is rather pretty!

Is the second one (wild guess) Georgian?

[Andrij]

The first one is rather pretty!

Is the second one (wild guess) Georgian?

Yes, first one I believe is Armenian.

[Cudzoziemiec]

The first one is rather pretty!

Is the second one (wild guess) Georgian?

Yes, first one I believe is Armenian.

Wow. Can you read the Georgian at all?

[Andrij]

The first one is rather pretty!

Is the second one (wild guess) Georgian?

Yes, first one I believe is Armenian.

Wow. Can you read the Georgian at all?

Sadly not, but I recognise both scripts.  Last year I started teaching myself the Georgian alphabet but didn't get very far (other calls on my time).

[Ham]

The first one is rather pretty!

Is the second one (wild guess) Georgian?

Yes, first one I believe is Armenian.

Wow. Can you read the Georgian at all?

<gulp> yes.

But I can't understand much. One thing about Georgian is that it is spoke as it is writ.

(Andrij - let me know if you would like any books)

[PeteB99]

Something I came across researching a ships history for a weather project.

The shortest recorded war in history lasted 38 minutes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Zanzibar_War

[clarion]

Gunboat diplomacy by other means.

[PeteB99]

Two gunboats and three light cruisers diplomacy against a country armed with 2 cannons and a few machine guns.

Not Britain's finest hour by any means.

[clarion]

I passed by the Passmore Edwards Library in Borough Road, Southwark, and realised I had seen his name elsewhere.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Passmore_Edwards

There are more Passmore Edwards related buildings in Dulwich, Bethnal Green and verious parts of Cornwall, among others.

Streetview

[Bledlow]

Two gunboats and three light cruisers diplomacy against a country armed with 2 cannons and a few machine guns.

Not Britain's finest hour by any means.

More to do with keeping Zanzibar out of the hands of the Germans than anything else.

[clarion]

Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl Liverpool, and Prime Minister at the time of the Peterloo Massacre, was actually Monty Python's Graham Chapman.

[rogerzilla]

Two gunboats and three light cruisers diplomacy against a country armed with 2 cannons and a few machine guns.

Not Britain's finest hour by any means.

Watch out Jersey