Vextasy

BBC Podcasts

Back in July 2005 I noted (elsewhere) that:

I heard some figures today from the BBC for the number of downloads that it has recorded for some of its podcasts. The figures came from an audio record of a BBC Radio 5 broadcast (a podcast) that was transmitted in the first week of June 2005 and refer to the number of individual downloads:

Reith Lectures - 50K
In Our Time - 405K
Fighting Talk - 141K

In Our Time is now regularly hitting 25K downloads per month.

The BBC Press Office reports that combined download figures for all of its podcasts reached 100K a week during July. We must be due another statistics update soon.

Anamorphic Illusions

Julian Beever creates anamorphic illusions, his canvas is the street pavement. He paints everyday objects as if they had been discarded right there on the street. These street paintings when viewed from the intended angle take on a 3D appearance, but when viewed from any other position betray their true and flat form. Not everyone appreciates pavement art. On occasions, a painting has to be abandoned after a complaint from a member of the public, perhaps after a full day's work.

Quotes

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-- Arthur C. Clarke

"When you come to the fork in the road, take it"
-- L.P. Berra

"Stay hungry, stay foolish."
-- Steve Jobs