Paul Mison’s random stuff that doesn’t go elsewhere. Is it microblogging, or microactivity? (Previously known as ‘tumblr is my sock drawer’, for reasons that are somewhat unclear.)Tumblr (3.0; @blech)http://notes.husk.org/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/2a307e7d5647ba228ba394b9514b248c/tumblr_mmlh4azTq71qz4vjro1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>STS-135 Flight Hardware,via <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news/space/home/flightdata/main.html">CBS Space News: Flight Data File</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/vruba/status/332237525496250368">via</a></p>http://notes.husk.org/post/50100866483http://notes.husk.org/post/50100866483Fri, 10 May 2013 19:09:46 +0100imagespace shuttleshuttlediagramengineeringsts-135atlantis<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/098b71645e39b80f6ad490367c1b2769/tumblr_mmg8yu6k2M1qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/todayinthesky/2013/04/08/berlin-airport-fiasco-an-embarrassment-for-germans/2062533/">Berlin airport fiasco an embarrassment for Germans</a>: “<span>Delays to the Berlin Brandenburg International Airport have become so endemic that even a Legoland display in nearby Hamburg pokes fun at the problems plaguing the airfield.” Photograph:  </span><span class="credit">Maurizio Gambarini for AFP/Getty.</span></p>http://notes.husk.org/post/49884787929http://notes.husk.org/post/49884787929Tue, 07 May 2013 23:25:41 +0100imagelegoberlin brandenburgberairportinfrastructureengineeringconstruction<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/4bb054425782b71ef81ecf4968e45129/tumblr_mld7riscWN1qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Blueprints for a rocket in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_(rocket_family)">Soyuz family</a>.</p> <p>This post is an inverted version of <a href="http://www.iainclaridge.co.uk/blog/23008">this image</a>, <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/51298883227150880/">via</a></p>http://notes.husk.org/post/48141951802http://notes.husk.org/post/48141951802Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:33:18 +0100imagediagramblueprintsoyuzrocketspaceengineeringblack on white<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/c8523fe38a73e15f568f050c8d1b6035/tumblr_mjd1sq7abI1qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The internal view of an <a href="http://enr.construction.com/photocontest/2012/detail.asp?itemid=34">emergency water cistern</a> in San Francisco, by <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/PUC-duo-take-major-construction-photos-4272082.php">Robin Scheswohl</a>. Photograph via <a href="http://burritojustice.com/2013/03/08/whats-underneath-those-brick-circles/">Burrito Justice</a>, which includes more information on the emergency cistern system, along with more <a href="http://enr.construction.com/photocontest/2012/detail.asp?itemid=3">engineering</a> <a href="http://enr.construction.com/photocontest/2012/detail.asp?itemid=19">photography</a> from around the Bay Area.</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/44882520113http://notes.husk.org/post/44882520113Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:17:00 +0000imagesan franciscocisternwaterearthquakefireinfrastructureengineeringphotographybeneath the streets“As soon as we discover a new popular search query, we send it to our human evaluators, who are asked a variety of questions about the query.<br/> Behind the scenes: when the Storm topology detects that a query has reached sufficient popularity, it connects to a Thrift API that dispatches the query to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service, and then polls Mechanical Turk for a response.”<br/><br/> - <em><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="https://twitter.com/echen">Edwin Chen</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/alpa">Alpa Jain</a> on the </span><a href="http://engineering.twitter.com/">Twitter Engineering</a> blog post, <a href="http://engineering.twitter.com/2013/01/improving-twitter-search-with-real-time.html">Improving Twitter search with real-time human computation</a>. Go and read it all.</em>http://notes.husk.org/post/40113988652http://notes.husk.org/post/40113988652Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:42:00 +0000engineeringhuman computationmechanical turkquotereal timesearchtwitternew aesthetic<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me8wdwmFod1qz4yloo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.crossrail.co.uk/news/">Crossrail</a>: <a href="http://www.crossrail.co.uk/news/press-releases/londons-newest-eastender-begins-tunnelling-journey">London’s newest ‘eastender’ begins tunnelling journey</a> (via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://tumblr.iamdanw.com/post/36803106457/tbm-via-londons-newest-eastender-begins">iamdanw</a>)</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/36821157328http://notes.husk.org/post/36821157328Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:07:58 +0000imagerebloglondontunnellingtbmcrossrailshaftrailwayengineeringinfrastructure<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdjt73z48V1qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Atlantis shrink-wrapped with 1,500 square metres of plastic (photo by <a href="http://twitpic.com/photos/RedHuber">RedHuber</a>).</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/35794466008http://notes.husk.org/post/35794466008Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:33:00 +0000imageshuttleatlantisov104plasticwrappedengineeringspace shuttlespace<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhnb3eZCAP1qgfmcuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://sciencecenter.tumblr.com/post/3686823887/scientists-study-the-phases-of-the-moon-on-lunar">sciencecenter</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><span>Scientists study the phases of the moon on lunar models in preparation for an eventual manned flight to moon.</span></p> </blockquote> <p>Love those circles-on-globes. Photographer: <span>Fritz Goro.</span></p>http://notes.husk.org/post/23839041600http://notes.husk.org/post/23839041600Sun, 27 May 2012 04:11:00 +01001960sapolloengineeringimagelifemoonreblogscientistsspace1962<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luxbop2B2B1qz5f8ao1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“Avions à décollage et atterrissage verticaux” (via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://balnibarbi.tumblr.com/post/13024477866/avions-a-decollage-et-atterrissage-verticaux-via">balnibarbi</a>, <a href="http://mondorama2000.blogspot.com/2011/11/avions-decollage-et-atterrissage.html">Mondorama 2000</a>)</p> <p>Those planes in full: the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Siddeley_HS.141">Hawker Siddeley HS.141</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CL-84">Canadair CL-84 “Dynavert”</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrier_Jump_Jet">Hawker Harrier</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DHC_7">de Havilland Canada DHC-7</a>. Only the last two entered production, but the concept used by the CL-84 is similar to that of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-22_Osprey">Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey</a>, now in use by US armed forces.</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/20731741237http://notes.husk.org/post/20731741237Sun, 08 Apr 2012 21:15:57 +0100imageaircraftdiagramstolvtolvstolharrierhs 141cl-84dhc 7engineeringflight<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxbqqnVA6y1qz58mbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://stml.tumblr.com/post/15342389538/the-red-structure-is-the-remains-of-the-original">stml</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>The red structure is the remains of the original Greathead shield used to tunnel the Waterloo & City. It was left in place in 1898 and rediscovered in 1987.</p> </blockquote> <p>Nice tube geekery there.</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/15443230644http://notes.husk.org/post/15443230644Sat, 07 Jan 2012 07:37:05 +0000imagereblogwaterloo and citylondonundergroundtubetunneldesignengineering