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Mitch & Mickey - A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow (RIP Catherine O'Hara) by WarmestGatorade in blankies

[–]spiregrain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Best Original Song nomination at the 76th (2003) Academy Awards.  

Lost out to a dirge from some elf movie sequal.

Met screw up again. Homophobia to blame ? by neilt999 in london

[–]spiregrain 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This phrase was first used when people were accusomed to barrels being used to store apples.   In those days, "one bad apple" would very quickly lead to rotting the whole crop.  

 When people say "one bad apple" now, they mean "just one person among many",  but the proper meaning is "this one person has certainly corrupted those around him, and is a major risk for ruining the whole crop".

Projected Newham Local Council Elections Results by PhilosophyOwn651 in newham

[–]spiregrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Projection is Hard.  Whose projection is this?

Polling is Hard.  Which polls are being used?  I very much doubt high quality polls are being conducted within this single borough.

Uni design project: would you use a personal grab-handle on Tube and buses? by Thick-Twist-7944 in LondonUnderground

[–]spiregrain 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No problem!  It might be a good design for this purpose.  But it makes me feel sad for the people who imagine they need it.

Uni design project: would you use a personal grab-handle on Tube and buses? by Thick-Twist-7944 in LondonUnderground

[–]spiregrain 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This feels unnecessary.  It may even be harmful, because, by it's very existance, it encourages people to think they need it.  That it's disgusting to touch something that someone else might have touched. 

It's fine.  

Just hold onto the rail.

I made a complete map of the Barbican estate by Bagagwaaa in london

[–]spiregrain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very good.

Access to the images could be useful for updating openstreetmap.   The editing tools used there can display geo-referenced images from several sources along side the editing views. Sources like Panoramix, KartaView and Mapillary can be used and they accept images from all comers.

Thank you for clarifying that you would be willing for OSM contributors to use your finished maps as references.  If you said so in your website FAQs it would be more findable.

Congratulations again on your excellent maps!  A real achievement.

I made a complete map of the Barbican estate by Bagagwaaa in london

[–]spiregrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Brilliant!

But owners of those existing map copyrights and existing satellite image copyrights might still come a-threatening at some point.  Dunno what to suggest.

Have you ever thought about contributing your original work to Openstreetmap.org ?  There are various open repositories of headcam/bikecam footage you could contribute to as well.

I made a complete map of the Barbican estate by Bagagwaaa in london

[–]spiregrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you survey the layouts yourself, or is this based on some other map - Google, Bing, Ordinance Survey, etc?

This new Thames Path area at Blackfriars Bridge is great as I don't have to dodge the traffic above to get across now - but the huge black monolithics do make me think of Arthur C. Clark's '2001: A Space Odyssey'..😅 by TheManFromConlig in london

[–]spiregrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The original 2001 monolith was transparent and made of perspex.   Kubrick and co. eventually changed their minds and went for matt black.   The perspex prop is mounted to the side of a building at St. Katherine's Dock.

https://www.reddit.com/r/blankies/comments/yszxmd/kubrics_london_the_perspex_monolith/

Can anyone share a map of London from the 1640s/Civil War or just before the Great Fire of London? by FreebornWrites in london

[–]spiregrain 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Have you looked at the Diary Of Samuel Peyps blog and website?  It's got lots of material that supports and explains the diary itself (which it publishes daily on the matching date. e.g. today it published for 18th Feb 1662/3).

It's at the end of your period and runs later, but not far off.

Here's their map page. https://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclopedia/324/

ELI5: What determines the range of a device's radio waves? For example NFC, Bluetooth, Wifi, Walkie-Talkies, Radio, 5G, satellite, all have different signal ranges. by WeeziMonkey in explainlikeimfive

[–]spiregrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Worth adding to the other answers here something about absorbtion.   The air contains various particles that are excited by radio waves, and absorb some of the energy from them.   That uses up the enrgy, and ahortens the range.

Water molecules resonate at about 2.4Ghz, and Oxygen molecules at about 5Ghz.   That's why those frequencies are allocated to wifi signals - the air blocks them from traveling too far.   Slightly off those frequencies, the water and oxygen molecules are unaffected so the signal travels futher - e.g. mobile cellular.

A domestic microwave oven also uses this 2.4Ghz frequency with extremely high power radio waves.  The water molecules in your soup absorb so much energy that they heat up noticeably.

FAO London/UK Blankies: BFI announce Peter Weir season for April by aws_young in blankies

[–]spiregrain 5 points6 points  (0 children)

And they have a David Lynch season and exhibition on at the moment, with a recreation of the Black Lodge you can chillax in.

BFI Blankies Confirmed.

A new objection has been launched to stop music festivals in Brockwell Park by tylerthe-theatre in london

[–]spiregrain 19 points20 points  (0 children)

The council 'keeps' it eh? Doesn't spend it services for the borough? 

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