#uk (321 links)
- Westbury Music westburymusic.net
An independent publisher of contemporary British music.
- A first step towards freeing London’s data | London DataStore data.london.gov.uk
The prototype Datastore for London. This is where we’ll be releasing all of the Greater London Authority’s data for all Londoners to see and use free of charge.
Via demwunz.
- The Vanguard Way long-distance walking trail vanguardway.org.uk
Runs from East Croydon to Newhaven via the South Downs, Seven Sisters, Surrey Hills etc. 66 miles, goes mostly through open countryside and woodland.
- Home - National Trails nationaltrail.co.uk
Long distance routes for walking, cycling and horse riding through the finest landscapes in England and Wales. In Scotland the equivalent trails are called long distance routes.
- Wessex Ridgeway - Dorset For You dorsetforyou.com
A magnificent ridge-top route crossing Dorset's rural heartland.
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.
- Distance Calculator: The Official Guide to the South West Coast Path southwestcoastpath.com
"Unique steam-powered Cornish beam engine". Like the fact that there's a "Steaming / Not steaming" table.
Sheltered garden with an abundance of exotic trees and shrubs.
"Rocky island crowned by medieval church and castle, home to a living community." No zombies, then.
Lots of information on the Night Riviera sleeper service to Cornwall from Seat 61.
- Porthcurno Telegraph Museum porthcurno.org.uk
- The RSPB: Marazion Marsh rspb.org.uk
Overlooks the beautiful St Michael's Mount and boasts Cornwall's largest reedbed. More than 250 bird, 500 plant, 500 insect and 18 mammal species have been recorded here and bitterns are now regular winter visitors (although patience is required to see them).
- Under the Thatch - self-catering experiences in Wales and beyond underthethatch.co.uk
Good flowering teas in particular.
- Albion Cafe, Bakery and Food Store albioncaff.co.uk
Typical British caff food, nothing challenging or complicated, just straightforward hearty ingredients and recipes.
So what is the organisation's end goal? Bowdler puts it simply: "To engage people with science who would not otherwise choose to immerse themselves in the subject."
- Real Time Carbon realtimecarbon.org
Each unit of UK electricity is currently causing this much CO2...
- Four crowdsourcing lessons from the Guardian’s (spectacular) expenses-scandal experiment » Nieman Journalism Lab niemanlab.org
"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.
- S3 Radio - Permanent Bedtime s3fm.co.uk
- Babington House babingtonhouse.co.uk
- Type | A record label typerecords.com
New Type Records site. Nice.
- mySociety » Blog Archive » Say hello to Mapumental mysociety.org
Mapumental is the culmination of an ambition mySociety has had for some time - to take the nation’s bus, train, tram, tube and boat timetables and turn them into a service that does vastly more than imagined by traditional journey planners. In its first iteration it’s specially tuned to help you work out where else you might live if you want an easy commute to work.
This website contains over 650 posters from the National Theatre Archive. Beautiful photographic quality prints are available in a range of sizes and prices, supplied ready for framing and delivered to your door.
UCLIC (pronounced You-Click) stands for the University College London Interaction Centre. I attended their MSc in Human-Computer Interaction and Ergonomics, a joint program between Computer Science and Psychology, this past year. As promised, to aid others in selecting their program in the future, I am giving a full review of the program.
- Interview: Mr Best Buy goes looking for bargains in Britain | Business | The Observer guardian.co.uk
"[Bob Willett] says it is wrong for analysts to focus on store openings, as the internet is key to growth - web sales are rising faster here than in the US. "Up to a third of our business will be done on the web, so you don't need hundreds of stores," he says."
- National Rail Enquiries - Special Offer - Freedom of the South West 3 in 7 Day Rover nationalrail.co.uk · Archived on
The Freedom of the South West rail rover provides unlimited use of all National Rail services on the map in the validity section. Available any 3 days within a 7 day period.
- List of UK retailers on Twitter | Blog | Econsultancy econsultancy.com
Not a bad start.
- Charlie Brooker: To politicians, we're little more than meaningless blobs on a monitor | Comment is free | The Guardian guardian.co.uk
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.
"Unlimited connections on static IPs. Secure VPN exit in Switzerland. No download or upload limits. No content filtering. No port blocking. No packet shaping. No transparent web caches. No fair usage policy. No Phorm. No small print. No call centres. No lock in period." But... expensive.
- Self catering cottages – Home - National Trust Holiday Cottages nationaltrustcottages.co.uk
- Opening Times opening-times.co.uk
"Enter a UK town or postcode to find out when nearby shops are open". Brilliant.
Via kevan.
One price, one ticket, unlimited train journeys ... when the snow clears, the rail rover could be one of Britain's best-kept travel secrets.