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| 15 January 2012  |  | category: architecture, cycling, gravity life, transport, travel  | comments are closed  Great use of data “We’re house-hunting. And for me, like most coders, house-hunting involves lots and lots and lots of screen-scraping. As well as crawling Rightmove listings, I’ve been looking at transport and house-price data. [ continue reading train stations and house prices ] …and a number of other shots looked familiar (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» Combing my hair…. I spotted Encliffe Park…: .) Rosscott, Inc. » Archive » The System 433: Cycling Terrains. VCA 2010 RACE RUN from changoman on Vimeo. Thanks Gareth 8 March 2011 | | category: can't make it up!, cycling, film, gravity life, transport, travel | comments are closed SEE ME SAVE ME It’s nearly two years since Eilidh was run over by a truck that failed to see her. Her mum Heather has been working with their local Member of European Parliament to try and get an EU declaration signed to get HGVs fitted with sensors and cameras to remove their blind spot. 4000 people, mostly unprotected road users such as cyclists, motorcyclists and pedestrians are killed each year in Europe because of HGV blind spots. This declaration needs to be signed to be signed by half of the 736 MEPs before it lapses on [ continue reading Eilidh Cairns – Campaign – See Me Save Me ] 4 February 2011 | | category: cycling, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, transport, travel | comments are closed Street artist, cartoonist and comic book creator Phlegm is known for his signature illustrative black-and-white style, which he has translated from the page to large-scale murals in run-down public areas. The Sheffield, UK-based artist recently completed some stunning floor-to-rooftop street art, including ‘Whale of a Time’ in the Riverside carpark in Rotherham. Stunning Black and White Street Art Illustrations by Phlegm | WebUrbanist. [ continue reading stunning black and white street art illustrations by Phlegm ] Harry Beck’s map continues to inspire. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» European E-Road System as a Subway Diagram | Cameron Booth: .) 28 January 2011 | | category: art, location+, maps & mapping, transport, travel | comments are closed Now this is interesting! Who would have thought that this could happen even if, as we know, the ibex can do it. One of the respondents says it’s so that the ibex can benefit from minerals being leeched from the rock. Copenhagen – City of Cyclists from Copenhagenize on Vimeo. Only a hill ; earth set a little higher above the face of earth : a larger view of little fields and roads : a little higher to clouds and silence : what is that to you? Only a hill ; but all of life to me, up there, between the sunset and the sea. Welcome to our temporary website, deliberately simple, purely functional. It will improve visually later! This webpage enables free downloading of the updated ‘press pack’-style documentation that originally appeared here in 2008 under the name “Hillsborough For ‘Dummies’: Facts Behind The Disaster”. The updated version consists of several documents, all of which can be downloaded as separate PDF files, or as a combined package in one easy click. We updated and changed in order to appeal to a much wider audience and the concern was that the original name would not sit well with the publishers of the “…For Dummies” [ continue reading The Hillsborough Football Disaster: Context & Consequences ] 8 December 2010 | | category: scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, Sheffield, Sport? what sport? | comments are closed A report commissioned by the RAC Foundation has stated that the cost of switching off all speed cameras in the UK would be up to 800 additional people killed or seriously injured every year, the BBC reports. The report’s author Professor Richard Allsop, emeritus professor of transport studies at University College London, also suggested that the popular perception of the cameras being there primarily to raise money is a myth with just £4 from every £60 fine going to the Treasury. RAC report also gives the lie to the revenue-raising "myth" read more (CLICK HERE [ continue reading UK-wide camera switch-off would mean 800 more people killed or seriously injured ] ‘Ron Fawcett, Rock Athlete’, the autobiography of the famed Yorkshire climber written by Ron and outdoors journalist Ed Douglas, is the winner of the 2010 Boardman Tasker Prize for mountain literature, it was announced at the Kendal Mountain Festival on Friday. Described the the chairman of the judges, Ian Smith as ‘an engaging portrait of an unassuming yet quite remarkable climber told with humility and frankness’, the book tells Ron’s life story from his childhood in a small Yorkshire village through to his pioneering role in climbing in the 1970s. The judges praised Fawcett’s candour and also commended Ed [ continue reading Fawcett Book Lands Boardman Tasker Prize ] On the subject of those TSA “grope” scanners at airports here is an insightful, and very early prediction of the wonderful advances in technology that will spring from science. They don’t make them like that any more. Thanks to @tpaleyfilm and @Zerofee for the link. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» YouTube – The Man with the X-Ray Eyes: .) [ continue reading The Man with the X-Ray Eyes – coming to a perimeter near you ] 18 November 2010 | | category: empires flux, film, Global Guerillas, the new 'priest class', the state we're in, travel | comments are closed This ten minute video explores questions of beauty in a Sheffield with local residents. In includes the best bits from our interviews and a set of a lively and informed opinions about what beauty means to people living in Sheffield. Beautiful Sheffield from CABE on Vimeo. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» Beautiful Sheffield? | Videos | CABE: .) |  
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