Link Blog

28th July 2010

Pay as you go sim with data Wiki

List of data sim providers by country

Tags: iphone

27th July 2010

Dubai Gigapan

Massive gigapixel image of the even-more massive Burj Khalifa in Dubai

Tags: for:@twitter, panorama

26th July 2010

Cursor Chaos with Node.js

Website also shows other reader's cursors

Tags: for:@twitter, nodejs

23rd July 2010

Apple iPhone 4 Case Program

iLounge's guide to the free iPhone 4 cases

Tags: iphone

23rd July 2010

iPhone 4 Case Program

The free cases are now available via a very simple iPhone app. Surprisingly wide selection of cases, I'm probably one of very few people to go for the "tartan effect" case.

Tags: for:@twitter, iphone

14th July 2010

Gillian McKeith loses an online argument, backtracks, and then pretends to be someone else

A funny story, but the Boingboing commenters get all out of proportion and seem to think she'll be bankrupted by the "fiasco"

Tags: for:@twitter

13th July 2010

8-Bit Cities

Wonderful OpenStreetMap in the style of 8-bit computer games

Tags: for:@twitter

12th July 2010

Diffable: only download the deltas

Updates cached Javascript files with diffs rather than downloading the whole thing again.

Tags: javascript

1st July 2010

GlastoTag

Super high-resolution photo from Glastonbury where over 3,000 people have tagged themselves

Tags: for:@twitter, photography

28th June 2010

A Stack of Twits

Simple webapp sends you @replies on Twitter when new Stack Overflow questions appear matching a set of keywords.

Tags: stackoverflow, twitter

24th June 2010

YoruFukurou

A terribly-named native Mac Twitter client. Not as slick as Tweetie, but loads of configuration options and custom tabs.

Tags: for:@twitter, osx, twitter

22nd June 2010

A fluid Hicksdesign

Clever fluid design that adjusts the number of columns based on your screen width

Tags: css, design

18th June 2010

Giant Rapping Hamsters

Giant Hamsters rapping to Black Sheep

Tags: for:@twitter, youtube

17th June 2010

iPhone 4 UK Price Comparison

Spreadsheet comparing the UK iPhone 4 pricies annouced so far (Orange, Vodafone, o2)

Tags: for:@twitter, iphone

9th June 2010

Edinburgh Locals and Tourists

Photos taken by locals are blue, and tourists are red

Tags: flickr, picture

James Turnbull is a web developer from Edinburgh and living in Oxford. This website is a link-dump of things he found online.

James is developer and co-author of the popular Google Earth "things-to-see" website, Google Sightseeing and the spin-off book Not in the Guide Book. He also sometimes posts blogs to Rotacoo.

Posts from Google Sightseeing

Distilleries of Islay

Fans of single-malt scotch whisky associate single malts from the Isle of Islay in Scotland with bold and peaty flavors. Not every whisky produced on the island is heavily peated, but that’s the signature flavour of…
Posted on 2nd September 2010

HubPages Marks the Spot

Recognising our literary passion, technical knowledge, and expertise in the online mapping field1, the web’s 57th most popular website, HubPages, have asked Alex and me to join thier expert panel and judge entries to their latest…
Posted on 31st August 2010

The Russian Woodpecker

Last week a top-secret Russian shortwave radio station, UVB-76, began broadcasting a coded message for only the fourth time in 28 years. Today we’re exploring another shortwave system within the radioactive zone surrounding Chernobyl, The Russian…
Posted on 30th August 2010

Airport Emergency Training Locations

As a moderately frequent flyer, I enjoy looking out for fire and emergency training locations at airports. It’s fascinating because, for anybody who is even vaguely nervous about flying, the sight of a twisted and charred…
Posted on 27th August 2010

“The Buzzer” speaks! (Voice transmission confirmed at UVB-76)

Regular readers may remember our post from 2009 about a Russian shortwave radio station, UVB-76, that has been emitting a short buzz tone on the AM frequency almost continuously since 1982. In the following 28 years…
Posted on 25th August 2010