This is BIG Green Commuter Challenge Week, when many commuters will hopefully be exploring more sustainable ways of getting to work. Sunday 30th May also happens to be a day to celebrate bike culture during the Love Your Bike Portsmouth event, which is sponsored by The University of Portsmouth Creative Campus Initiative and Portsmouth City Council’s Health Town’s Initiative.
http://www.loveyourbikeportsmouth.co.uk/
TOTD was particularly intrigued by the Gocycle, which forms part of a display in a shop window in Southsea. There’s a lovely animation of how it works on the Gocycle site.
On 21 June 2009, Nick Hand set off on a 4541 mile cycle ride around the coast of Great Britain. The short documentary soundslides are a feature of this site. There’s an entry for Southsea, featuring members of the Southsea Breakfast Club.
You can get your bike checked and ready to ride at one of the free Check ‘n’ Mend events, which begin today.
http://www.port.ac.uk/staffessentials/whatson/news/newsdetails,111241,en.html
Following on from yesterday’s post, here’s another great site from mySociety.org. The interactive function of the house prices map is very neat. TOTD was particularly interested in the public transport vs cycling map – it would be great to have a version for Portsmouth.
This must have taken some practice:
We’re a year old today. Trust you’ve been enjoying the last 245 postings.
Here are some highlights(?) from the past year:
October 2007 and a blog from Stephen Fry:
http://stephenfry.com/blog/
November saw our posting which has received the largest number of hits (over 4000):
https://reden.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/rich-pictures/
December and a site that’s still really useful:
http://www.lifehack.org/
January had us delving into a scary world of Scrabble with the ‘short story’ _Craziest_:
http://www.vidlit.com/craziest/
February saw the still quite moving video about world creation in Second Life:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxVDVggLqsA
March and an Information Literacy favourite still going strong:
http://www.dhmo.org/
April saw the limited range of movement the Apollo 11 crew made after travelling so far:
http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/A11vsFootball.gif
No round up of the year would be complete with a mention of the biggest item in our tag cloud: Lego. May saw three entries:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/7386537.stm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pufe1tHHwks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFGVzt7c5bY
June had some retro computing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBuJqUfO4-w
July quite wore us out following Rob Piatt (you can now download his whole blog in chronological order as a PDF file if you want to revisit his quest for an anecdote).
http://www.shinetheatretrust.org/ridetothetop/
August had us bookmooching:
http://bookmooch.com/
Finally, there’d be trouble at t’mill if this wasn’t picked from September:
https://reden.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/david-tennant/
Here’s to another year of TOTD – recently okayed by the powers that be to continue – we hope you all have a great year as well.
A couple of weeks ago TOTD mentioned a guy cycling from Land’s End to John O’Groats. Apparently he made it last Friday after 13 days. Well done that lunatic. We’re still green with envy. And his quest for an anecdote was a great success too.
http://www.shinetheatretrust.org/ridetothetop/
Of course it’s still possible to donate to his charity and he’s past the £1000 mark now. Still looks a bit uphill to his target but we’ll bet he’s glad the pedalwork is behind him.
