http://www.blacksworld.net/blog free maps - free beer - free love Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:13:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We might have high taxes, bad weather and risk averse investors, but Burritos can now be crossed of the list of differences between California and London. Tortilla are a Californian style burrito house who've just opened up in Angel, north London. Vanessa loved her burrito: I loved mine too: This close up ... http://www.blacksworld.net/blog/2008/03/30/burritos-in-london-burritoyes/ 51.53427035510594 -0.1078033447265625 India's Tata Motors has the People's Car, and the Isle of Man's Peel Engineering has the P50. Spot the difference? http://www.blacksworld.net/blog/2008/02/14/islands-of-innovation/ Searching for "google" from maps.google.co.uk fails to return Google's London HQ, instead it gives this set of results, which shows their Manchester and Zurich locations, as well as a paid listing: View Larger Map Google's real location is here. http://www.blacksworld.net/blog/2008/01/28/can-you-find-google-hq/ This week, we're going to be working on OSM, all week long. Check out the ZXV blog for more details. http://www.blacksworld.net/blog/2008/01/21/zxv-and-the-week-of-openstreetmap/ Come map the streets of South-East London: The OSM South East London mapping party will aim to fill in the blanks in the OSM map of the area. Greenwhich, Lewisham and Blackheath are all well covered by Yahoo!'s aerial imagery, so lots of roads have been filled in but most ... http://www.blacksworld.net/blog/2008/01/15/south-east-london-mapping-party/ 51.47218810785753 -0.014591217041015625 Subscribe to this feed to get a weekly recipe from my multi-talented girlfriend. http://www.blacksworld.net/blog/2008/01/13/now-you-can-eat-like-me/ Last August I took a flight with GB Airways from Gibraltar to London. When breakfast was served, we opened the seat-back and saw this: Click on the link and take a look at the high resolution version and you'll see the filth I was greeted with. Its not what ... http://www.blacksworld.net/blog/2008/01/02/what-you-can-expect-if-you-fly-with-gb-airways/ It was great to spend the day in Southampton yesterday at the Ordnance Survey, to preview the new OpenSpace API: The API has been a long time in the making, having first been announced at the OS Mashup Event last year. The API is based on the OpenLayers Javascript library, ... http://www.blacksworld.net/blog/2007/12/15/os-openspace-preview/ The front page of Wikipedia today links to an article about the Brown Dog Affair - an incident that occured 100 years ago involving the dissection of a dog at labs in UCL, my old university. I'd never heard of this story before today, who'd have thought you could ... http://www.blacksworld.net/blog/2007/12/10/riots-vivisection-brown-dogs/ The Economist sums it up more succinctly than I've ever managed to: Most of the [agricultural] subsidies and trade barriers have come at a huge cost. The trillions of dollars spent supporting farmers in rich countries have led to higher taxes, worse food, intensively farmed monocultures, overproduction and world prices ... http://www.blacksworld.net/blog/2007/12/10/everything-i-every-wanted-to-get-accross-about-farm-subsidies/