Life in Links 42

The Spring Holidays, like others will increase my blogging. It has been a busy term both home learning and back in school. Looking forward to a holiday of wee walks (still stuck in Glasgow) and some random browsing.

Johnny•Decimal a system for organising. Been a bit of discussion on micro.blog. Sounds good, I made a start with the mess that ins my OneDrive folder, but need to re-read the instructions and start again I think.

Himalayan Balsam | Scottish Invasive Species Initiative

The Scottish Invasive Species Initiative (SISI) is a 4-year partnership project which aims to work with local organisations and volunteers to control invasive non-native species along riversides in Northern Scotland, for the benefit of our native wildlife and communities.

I see quite a bit of Himalayan Balsam around, quite pretty but a nasty smell.

Contemplation. Dramatically Improving Your Photography With Reading via #tds2104 Contemplative Image Reading | The Daily Stillness This looks like an interesting practise.

via @wonderofscience

OpenSeadragon An open-source, web-based viewer for high-resolution zoomable images, implemented in pure JavaScript, for desktop and mobile.

"At startup, an Android device sends Google about 1MB of data, compared with iOS sending Apple around 42KB. When idle, Android sends roughly 1MB of data to Google every 12 hours, compared with iOS sending Apple about 52KB over the same period." https://t.co/nPXiM8Tqi6

— Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey) March 31, 2021

George Oates Returns to Revitalize the Flickr Commons | Flickr Blog

Cuba is a vaccine powerhouse and Capitalism and greed gave Britain its vaccine success, PM Johnson says | Reuters via Micro.blog – @rom

The Featured image is Maxwell dynamic machine, 1961 | Science Museum Group Collection © The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence found via the Never Been Seen | Science Museum Group Collection page, which I learnt about from Ian Guest