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Climb every mountain: visualising the world's 50 highest peaks | News | guardian.co.uk
"A multi-faceted visualisation of the world's 50 highest peaks. The interactive graphic, made using Tableau Public, features a clickable map of the summits, satellite images of each peak and figures for each mountain's prominence and overall elevation." Nice.
guardian  hiking  climbing  mountains  peaks  data  maps 
8 days ago by ohskylab
Has the internet run out of ideas already? | Technology | The Observer
Sentiment building. "We're now at the stage where we should be getting the next wave of disruptive surprises. But – guess what? – they're nowhere to be seen. Instead, we're getting an endless stream of incremental changes and me-tooism. If I see one more proposal for a photo-sharing or location-based web service, anything with "app" in it, or anything that invites me to "rate" something, I'll scream."
guardian  ideas  innovation  free  notfree 
4 weeks ago by ohskylab
My dying friend found kindness to be the rule, not the exception | Henry Porter | Comment is free | The Observer
"The health service is portrayed as an intractable managerial nightmare. We spend so much time deploring the waste and inefficiency that we often forget that at the heart of the whole unwieldy system is a routine compassion, which is simply magnificent. And even more remarkable is that we attempt to guarantee this consideration to every person in the country who needs care."
via:blech  health  nhs  guardian  gilbertadair 
december 2011 by ohskylab
Britain's DIY food producers | Life and style | The Observer
"They're net-savvy, small-scale producers, creating ice cream at home, smoking salmon in sheds – and making great food."
food  guardian  diy  from delicious
february 2011 by ohskylab
Live with the WikiLeakable world or shut down the net. It's your choice | John Naughton | Comment is free | The Guardian
"What WikiLeaks is really exposing is the extent to which the western democratic system has been hollowed out. In the last decade its political elites have been shown to be incompetent (Ireland, the US and UK in not regulating banks); corrupt (all governments in relation to the arms trade); or recklessly militaristic (the US and UK in Iraq). And yet nowhere have they been called to account in any effective way. Instead they have obfuscated, lied or blustered their way through. And when, finally, the veil of secrecy is lifted, their reflex reaction is to kill the messenger."
censorship  cloud  democracy  government  wikileaks  guardian  from delicious
december 2010 by ohskylab
Linked Data at the Guardian | Open Platform | guardian.co.uk
"In the MusicBrainz/Wikipedia case, there is a deeper semantic option. DBTune.org provide awesome music datasets, among which is a MusicBrainz SPARQL service that contains relations identifying DBpedia entities, and consequently Wikipedia data, with MusicBrainz entities. A little bit of painful SPARQL, and your application is suitably enriched. And you are a happy developer because you have confidence in the join." Hawt. Hard.
guardian  rdf  semantic  musicbrainz  sparql  wikipedia  music 
october 2010 by ohskylab
Gardens: Roof gardens | Life and style | The Guardian
"Container-grown plants have restricted root space with limited access to water and nutrients, making them both hungry and thirsty. Add to this the increased exposure to the drying effects of wind and sun, and a lot of plants just won't be able to cope. The answer is to choose ones that have xerophytic modifications, which means they hang on to water for as long as possible."
guardian  gardening  rooftop 
july 2010 by ohskylab
Alys Fowler: Aromatic basil, and the Chelsea chop | Life and style | The Guardian
"The trick to really aromatic basil is to ration its water intake, to ensure that it grows slowly."
gardening  basil  guardian  cooking 
may 2010 by ohskylab
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer | Books | The Guardian
"More disturbingly, [Jonathan Safran Foer] only considers a world where people are in a position to make choices about what they eat. Eating Animals is written by a well-educated, well-fed person for well-educated, well-fed readers. Nor does he contextualise his argument. It never ranges beyond the confines of America. He doesn't seriously examine why people might want to, or have to eat meat, or what meat means to individuals or societies. He proposes no solutions other than mass conversion to vegetarianism, although it doesn't seem to occur to him that the damage done by factory farming doesn't begin and end with animals but embraces all foods."
guardian  uk  food  books  reviews  matthewfort  jonathansafranfoer  farming  vegetarian 
march 2010 by ohskylab
Jonathan Safran Foer: the truth about fish farming | Environment | The Guardian
"In the second extract from his book Eating Animals, the novelist reveals how intensive rearing of sea animals in confinement is essentially underwater factory farming."
fish  food  guardian  ethics  agriculture  farming  fishing 
february 2010 by ohskylab
On gospel, Abba and the death of the record: an audience with Brian Eno | Interview | Music | The Observer
"The record age was just a blip. It was a bit like if you had a source of whale blubber in the 1840s and it could be used as fuel. Before gas came along, if you traded in whale blubber, you were the richest man on Earth. Then gas came along and you'd be stuck with your whale blubber. Sorry mate – history's moving along. Recorded music equals whale blubber."
brianeno  music  art  guardian  technology  interviews  quotes  ambient 
january 2010 by ohskylab
Computers offer a faster way to cure humanity's ills | Technology | guardian.co.uk
"Although these stories are reports about medical research, they are really about computing – in the sense that neither would have been possible without the application of serious computer power to masses of data. In that way they reflect a new – but so far unacknowledged – reality; that in many important fields leading-edge scientific research cannot be done without access to vast computational and data-handling facilities, with sophisticated software for analysing huge data-sets."
data  science  politics  guardian  visualisation  analysis  fourthparadigm  datamining  top 
december 2009 by ohskylab
The fourth plinth: it was just Big Brother all over again | Art and design | The Guardian
"If One & Other is an image of British democratic life in our time, it is a pessimistic one. It is a portrait of a society in which people will try anything to get their voices heard, even stand on a plinth, but where no one can hear what they're saying."
art  london  guardian  oneandother  anthonygormley 
october 2009 by ohskylab
Journey along the river Lee | Leo Hickman | Environment | The Guardian
"Last month, stretches of the river Lee were included on the list of 117 "bodies of water" across England and Wales that, according a new European rating system, are now classified as "bad". In total, just five of the 6,114 rivers surveyed received the "pristine" classification; three-quarters failed to attain the "good" grading."
london  environment  water  river  guardian  lee 
october 2009 by ohskylab
UK Freecycle moderators break away from US network | Environment | guardian.co.uk
"The acrimonious split follows unsatisfactory negotiations which could have given Freecycle's UK moderators the ability to localise their web pages and allow them to serve the community better [...] The UK is probably the most enthusiastic Freecycling country in the world, hosting just 10% of all the branches but handling 27% of all Freecycling activities."
freecycle  social  uk  environment  green  guardian  recycling  freegle  local 
september 2009 by ohskylab
Hack Day tools for non-developers
"For our first hack day, I put together a list of “tools for non-developers”—sites, services and software that could be used for hacking without programming knowledge as a pre-requisite. Here’s the list so far."
tools  development  guardian  simonwillison  data  hacking  diy  journalism 
july 2009 by ohskylab
Curating conversations | The Guardian Open Platform | guardian.co.uk
"Twitter is becoming an ever present backchannel at conferences and events. However sometimes it needs curating and moderating, especially if it's to be displayed large as a part of the event. Here we talk about an app built in a few hours and open sourced today which we used for this purpose for The Guardian's Activate Summit."
tools  guardian  community  twitter  api  conversation  conference  moderation  backchannel 
july 2009 by ohskylab
Four crowdsourcing lessons from the Guardian’s (spectacular) expenses-scandal experiment » Nieman Journalism Lab
"Journalism has been crowdsourced before, but it’s the scale of the Guardian’s project — 170,000 documents reviewed in the first 80 hours, thanks to a visitor participation rate of 56 percent — that’s breathtaking." Brilliant.
guardian  django  python  politics  media  crowdsourcing  simonwillison  journalism  ec2  amazon  uk 
june 2009 by ohskylab
Guardian Trends
"Graphs of how often things feature on guardian.co.uk"
guardian  statistics  api  trends  visualisation 
april 2009 by ohskylab
Review: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton | Books | The Guardian
"When does a job feel meaningful? Whenever it allows us to generate delight or reduce suffering in others."
quotes  books  reviews  work  career  alaindebotton  guardian 
april 2009 by ohskylab
#DataJourn part 1: a new conversation (please re-tweet) | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog
"In short: OU academic Tony Hirst produced a rather lovely map, on the suggestion (taunt?) of the Guardian’s technology editor, Charles Arthur, and the result? A brand new politics story for the Guardian on MPs’ expenses."
twitter  guardian  data  journalism 
april 2009 by ohskylab
The UK gets reWired: Wired magazine relaunches | Media | The Guardian
"Wired, [Albert Read] suggests, may not really be a tech magazine at all. "It's a magazine about innovation and the future, and should not be narrowly confined to technology in people's minds," he says. "You read Wired if you see yourself as a forward thinker or an early adopter." I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out.
wired  guardian  magazines  culture  technology  publishing  via:blech 
march 2009 by ohskylab
Guardian Open Platform leads the world | Tom Watson MP
"Guardian Open Platform is a chasmic leap into the future. It is a work of simplistic beauty that I’m sure will have a dramatic impact in the news market. The Guardian is already a market leader in the online space but Open Platform is revolutionary. It makes all of their major competitors look timid. Governments should be doing this. Governments will be doing it. The question is how long will it take us to catch up."
guardian  quotes  tomwatson  government  data 
march 2009 by ohskylab
Guardian opens APIs and data | Media | guardian.co.uk
"The Guardian launched its 'Open Platform' with APIs for all of its content and a sets of data collected by its editors." Brave. Ace.
guardian  api  web  open  data  innovation 
march 2009 by ohskylab
Charlie Brooker: To politicians, we're little more than meaningless blobs on a monitor | Comment is free | The Guardian
"Straw and co blocked the release of the minutes, claiming that to actually let us know what was going on would set a dangerous precedent that would harm good government. Ministers wouldn't speak frankly at cabinet meetings if they felt their discussions would be subjected to the sort of scrutiny that, say, our every waking move is."
uk  guardian  charliebrooker  britain  liberty  politics 
march 2009 by ohskylab
Hacking the physical and the digital | Technology | guardian.co.uk
"How do you take digital information into the physical world? Print it, of course. But that's just the beginning..."
bobbiejohnson  guardian  russelldavies  tomtaylor  ubicomp  paper 
january 2009 by ohskylab
The forecast for 2009: Mobile is the key, says Goldmund Byrne of The Sun | Media | guardian.co.uk
"An increasing number of mobiles are coming with flat-rate data access as standard. Remember how much more eagerly we used the net when we stopped paying by the minute? Stop the cost clock and mobile booms. Checking mail, synching calendars. Using geo-tagging and location aware services to see what's cool and nearby for a quick impulse buy." No more in the article than that. Ranty counterpoint in the comments.
mobile  uk  quotes  trends  guardian  sun  media  community 
december 2008 by ohskylab
The new vegetarian: Yotam Ottolenghi makes chickpea, tomato and bread soup | Life and style | The Guardian
My new favourite winter recipe. Making the pesto from scratch adds a fair amount to the prep time.
food  guardian  recipes  bread  pesto 
december 2008 by ohskylab
An ABC of R2 | Help | guardian.co.uk
"A series looking at different aspects of guardian.co.uk's rebuild and redesign project, which ran from October 2005 to September 2008." Must read.
design  development  guardian  architecture  redesign  analysis  web 
november 2008 by ohskylab
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall on chutneys and pickles | Life and style | The Guardian
"There's nothing quite like a proper homemade chutney or pickle to add a welcome crunch or hit of spice to all manner of dishes". Oh yes, it's chutney-making season.
food  guardian  recipes  chutney 
november 2008 by ohskylab
Inspirational menu: The Fat Duck | Life and style | The Guardian
Raw Scotch beef with land cress, parsley & capers, Roast hake with artichoke & roast tomato, Lemon salad, Quaking pudding.
food  recipes  guardian 
july 2008 by ohskylab
Nigel Slater's early summer dishes | Food and drink | Life and Health
Crushed new potatoes with herb butter, Grilled lamb, pea and mint mash, Braised lettuce with broad beans and bacon, Warm asparagus with melted cheese, Marinated strawberries.
recipes  summer  nigelslater  guardian 
july 2008 by ohskylab
Knobbly needs | Weekend | guardian.co.uk
"Jerusalem artichokes may not look up to much, but beneath that gnarled exterior is a nutty, sweet vegetable that's a welcome treat in the winter kitchen"
food  recipes  jerusalem  artichoke  guardian 
february 2008 by ohskylab
'Vinyl has been eliminated' | | Guardian Unlimited Arts
"Should any music be able to weather such a storm, it's reggae. If nothing else, its largely informal economy allows it to adapt much faster than the major labels in the US or Europe."
music  reggae  guardian  distribution  jamaica 
january 2008 by ohskylab
With friends like these ...
"Facebook has 59 million users [but] you won't catch Tom Hodgkinson volunteering his personal information - not now that he knows the politics of the people behind the social networking site"
facebook  privacy  politics  technology  guardian  web 
january 2008 by ohskylab
You like my poems? So pay for them | News | Guardian Unlimited Books
"For those of us who make a little bit of money from royalties and permission fees [..] it's different. Free publicity has no value if all that happens is that even more people download your poems from the internet without paying for them."
poetry  copyright  guardian 
december 2007 by ohskylab
Cory Doctorow: How comes Amazon gets it wrong on digital? | Technology | Guardian Unlimited
"Amazon is ahead of the competition when it comes to selling physical goods over the web - so it is galling when the company gets it so wrong with digital downloads, says Cory Doctorow"
amazon  guardian  kindle  corydoctorow 
december 2007 by ohskylab
Don't try to reinvent the web | Media | The Guardian
"You can't turn off a community at five on Friday and say "hold that thought until Monday". [...] It's the diametric opposite of what publishers and advertisers are tempted to do - which is, no matter how you dress it up, spam."
guardian  web  social  community 
november 2007 by ohskylab
Why history will repeat itself with JavaScript and the web | Technology | The Guardian
"If history repeats itself, we can expect a compelling SDK (software development kit) to emerge providing programmers with a standard user interface for their web applications."
javascript  sdk  guardian  development 
october 2007 by ohskylab
@Second Chance Tuesday: Last.fm - the "conviction entrepreneurs" | PDA: The Digital Content Blog | Guardian Unlimited
"The first time Martin Stiksel and Felix Miller, Last.fm's founders, have spoken publicly on the acquisition of their site since it was purchased by CBS in May"
last.fm  business  guardian 
september 2007 by ohskylab
niksilver.com » Guardian Unlimited’s new look: Some background on templating
Since this is a technology blog I want to focus on just a couple of technical areas that I’ve been tracking — templating and layout, and some of the issues we’ve had there.
design  css  web  guardian  redesign  cms  templating  development 
may 2007 by ohskylab
A menace to science | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
"For years, 'Dr' Gillian McKeith has used her title to sell TV shows, diet books and herbal sex pills. Now the Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in." Nice one!
food  science  nutrition  health  badscience  guardian 
february 2007 by ohskylab
David Bodanis has a full health MOT | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited
"Having just turned 50 - and with my last visit to a doctor somewhere in the 1970s - I thought that getting some checks like this might be a very good idea. My NHS GP agreed, although explained that, as I wasn't displaying any worrying symptoms, I would h
guardian  health 
february 2007 by ohskylab
Nigel Slater: Chorizos to be cheerful | Magazine | The Observer
"Spicy, paprika-infused Spanish pork sausages". So yeah, the vegetarian thing is going well so far.
food  guardian  recipes  observer  cooking 
january 2007 by ohskylab
Global warming: the final verdict | Climate change | Guardian Unlimited Environment
"A study by the world's leading experts says global warming will happen faster and be more devastating than previously thought"
guardian  environment  top  climate  sustainability  globalwarming 
january 2007 by ohskylab
Aida Edemariam talks to Barbara Hadrill on travelling the green way | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited
"Barbara Hadrill [...] is the bridesmaid so perturbed by our wrecking of the planet that instead of flying to Brisbane for her friend's wedding, she quit her job and set off by land and sea instead."
eco  environment  travel  guardian  sustainability 
december 2006 by ohskylab
First catch your radish ... | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited
"We claim to be a nation of foodies, yet vegetables still mystify many cooks - especially those weird specimens that turn up in the weekly organic box. What exactly do you do with chard or salsify? Do turnips have to be a turnoff?"
guardian  food  vegetables  health  cooking 
november 2006 by ohskylab
Safe sex advertising campaign offers the bare facts | Health | SocietyGuardian.co.uk
"A hard-hitting government advertising campaign on sexual diseases, featuring raunchy scenes of young people grappling in pubs, clubs and on deserted footpaths, launches today in an attempt to make 18- to 24-year-olds think of condoms as "essential wear"
gu  sex  advertising  guardian  health 
november 2006 by ohskylab
Guardian Unlimited Travel | Saturday section | Green houses
"Eco-correspondent, Richard Hammond, picks 30 of the best green places to stay around the world."
green  environment  holidays  travel  guardian 
september 2006 by ohskylab
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Jonathan Freedland: Al Gore on his mission to save the planet
"Al Gore was the nearly man of US politics, the wooden Clinton sidekick who never made it to the top job. But now he's back with a mission to save the planet - and this time he's passionate. "
guardian  politics  environment  climate 
may 2006 by ohskylab
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | We can rebuild you
"Eighty per cent of us will suffer back pain in our lifetimes [...] Yet for decades sufferers have been given the wrong advice. Instead of lying down and taking it easy, we should be up on our feet."
back  pain  exercise  health  lifestyle  guardian 
may 2006 by ohskylab
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Peta Bee investigates whether walking is enough to get you fit
"It is one of the easiest and least stressful forms of exercise you can do. But is walking really enough to get you fit? Only if you do it right"
guardian  health  walking  exercise  lifestyle 
may 2006 by ohskylab
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Is five portions of fruit and vegetables a day enough?
"While we Brits struggle to meet our fruit and vegetable quota, in Japan they aim for an astonishing 17 portions daily. But who is right? And what counts anyway?"
guardian  health  fruit  japan  uk  lifestyle  diet 
may 2006 by ohskylab
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Is it OK ... to drink wine?
"The production of wine also throws up a number of concerns, with the reality often far from the bucolic idyll of lore."
guardian  wine  ethical  shopping  drinking 
may 2006 by ohskylab
MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | BBC unveils radical revamp of website
"The BBC today unveiled radical plans to rebuild its website around user-generated content, including blogs and home videos, with the aim of creating a public service version of MySpace.com."
web  article  community  content  guardian  bbc  myspace  social  news  tv  uk 
may 2006 by ohskylab
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | The ideas interview: Mark Jaccard
"The ideas interview: Mark Jaccard. Fossil fuels can keep the world going, and they need not be dirty, the energy expert tells John Sutherland"
guardian  environment  energy  fossil  fuels  renewable 
january 2006 by ohskylab
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Getting your goat
"It was the feelgood Christmas gift of choice last year - a goat delivered in the name of a loved one to a poor family in the developing world. But what happened next? Aida Edemariam went in search of the charity goats "
guardian  charity  goat  gifts  shopping 
november 2005 by ohskylab
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