My blog turns four today! That first post four years ago (when the blog was called stormy petrel) wasn’t actually very interesting, but hey-ho.
Mmmm, Smarties.
» The picture, from Flickr, is © Luke and/or Kate Bosman and used under a by-nc-nd licence.
Clouded Drab — my photoblog — is one year old today. And despite occasional fallow periods, I have posted 92 photos in that year, which seems a respectable number.
This puffin is not one of those photos. I don’t quite know why I only posted one of my puffin pictures from Wales, but here’s another one.
I’ve just installed a random redirect plugin, so click on this link for a random photo.
After a quick and dirty winnowing-out, here are what might be the best of the links which I posted last year.
Arctic artefacts — Attack of the GIANT NEGROES!!
Bait-Fishing Crows — Beautiful Specimens — bird-eating bats — Building Stonehenge
C19th London snail-gatherers — chilled bees & yellow rain — Chinese building blocks — College Republicans — Cormac McCarthy & the semi-colon — Croatian bees sniff out landmines
Faster speciation in the tropics? — Fela Kuti documentary — Flags By Colours — Flight Exposure — Fossil Rivers
hamster-powered paper shredder — hobo nickels — Hothead: 1902 — how to camouflage a whole factory — human yellowhammer
Iggy Pop’s concert rider — Intensified continuity revisited
Jamaican Label Art — Japanese Love Hotels — Jen Stark paper sculptures
La Tonnara and the Chamber of Death — Large ejaculate from a spiny genital organ — look-a-like portraits
on the Heritability and Malleability of IQ
Pac-Man the text adventure — Parasite manipulates host’s sense of smell — Photosynth demo — pigeons aligner — Plains Indian Ledger Art — plaster casts of termite mounds — Polk Miller — Polynesian Stick Charts
Rafael Benitez The Magician — RIP Joe Engressia, the original Phone Phreak — Roxanne Shante: Who need a royalty check?
Simon Norfolk photographs — Some So-Called Out of Place Artifacts — spiny anteater reveals bizarre penis — stripper polaroids — Super Mario levels that play themselves
Taliban portrait photos — Thamesmead, Riverside School, 76-78 — The Bhagavata Purana — The Broken Column House — The Decisive Moment by Henri Cartier-Bresson — The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web — The flipping ship — The Visual Erotics of Mini-Marriages — thread in spiderwebs — Toutes les autos de Tintin — Typography and HMS Victory
Enjoy.
The sixth picture is up at my new photoblog Clouded Drab.
I’m just sayin’.
The release of WordPress 2.3 is my cue to release my photoblog onto the world.
Since this blog, which is comparatively simple in terms of layout, still isn’t working properly in Internet Explorer, I shudder to think what Clouded Drab will look like. But hey-ho, let’s press on regardless. There’s only one photo at the moment, but I’ve got more queued up, so I hope you’ll check in regularly. Or of course subscribe to the RSS feed.
Could anyone with copies of IE7 and/or IE6 please check to see whether something is working?
The menu on the right is supposed to move up and down as you scroll the window. If I’ve done it right, it should still look the same in Firefox, Opera etc; but in Internet Explorer, it should start in the same position but not move when you scroll the window.
Thanks in advance.