Quirky signs from this book. Clockwise from top left: Warning: Big Calculators, No Punctuation, Prepare to Receive the Wisdom of the Lord, The Star Child from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

This was the scene at the Glastonbury Festival site yesterday - hundreds of tents abandoned, like some camping Pompeii.

Zoo Poo, The Incredible Zoo Poo.

Ah, bless. This little, slightly wonky, dalek took part in last year’s Castle Cary and Ansford Children’s Carnival.

This picture is fantastic. I just can’t stop looking at it. Of course Chewy would be the drummer. Of course Luke would go for the traditional Strat and Han for the more flamboyant Flying V. C-3PO on keyboards? Well yes, that makes sense - MIDI can be no more complicated than boche. I’ve no idea what R2-D2 is up to - the lightshow perhaps? One thing bothers me though - sure Vader on bass (headless, nice touch, but curiously not fretless) but what is with the wires? Surely Vader’s powers extend to a bit of levitation?

This picture was from their early years on the road, before Vader started piling on the pounds…

My wikipedia contail (after Matt Webb). When I type “en.wikipedia.org/wiki/” into my browser this is what the autocomplete suggests:

» Attribute clash

For the last post I turned a Cézanne painting into 4-bit colour. The palette I used was based on the ZX Spectrum palette of 15 colours. On the Spectrum you couldn’t have more than two colours in the same 8 x 8 pixel block and this led to some lurid results.

» Cerulean blue

Also related to the previous post - I was thinking about the fact that artists have a better ‘linguistic resolution’ because of a familiarity with common oil paint colours. For blues, there are distinctive shades - such as Phtalo blue, Ultramarine, Cobalt blue and Cerulean blue. I wondered why ‘Cerulean’. Wikipedia doesn’t give an answer but perhaps it’s from the Latin ‘caelum’ - sky?

» Tanzanite

Tanzanite is the blue/purple variety of the mineral zoisite (Ca2(Al.OH)Al2(SiO4)3) found in Tanzania. It was mentioned on Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent.

» Blood type

I gave blood for the first time a couple of weeks ago and the other day got a thank you through the post together with a card for future donations telling me that I have O+ blood. Almost an armful etc.

» Wolf interval

If you the twelve notes of the octave are tuned using the meantone temperament then one of the fifths will be sharper than the rest and howl like a wolf.

» Internationalized domain names

It’s possibly to have non-ASCII characters in domain names. Safari recognises them, Firefox can with a plug-in and the Internet Explorer 7 supports them. Some examples: ♬♬.com, ®.com, ☎.com, あいうえお.com, 한글.kr.

» .cat

More domain stuff. There is a .cat domain for Catalan speakers. Apparently ICANN has expressly prohibited the use of the .cat domain for pages about cats, unless they are written in Catalan or concerning Catalan culture.

» Adolf Wölfli

An outsider artist featured in the Whitechapel Gallery’s Inner Worlds Outside exhibition.

» Emoticon#Posture_emoticons

Reading up about the ‘Orz’ emoticon.