AntWeb

For someone as obsessed about insects as I seem to be, the AntWeb project (http://www.antweb.org) is a fascinating collection of information and photographs. The idea is to catalogue all 12,000 species of ants around the world, gleaned from museum collections and captured using innovative photography techniques to get the best possible resolutions (the image included here is not the highest…

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Queen at Wembley 1986

Having finally got around to replace my audio tape version of Queen Live At Wembley with a CD copy (I guess the video will get the DVD treatment very soon too) I had an urge to write a blog entry on it since even now listening to it at full blast brings back happy memories. As a teenager I was…

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Detexify

Came across a link to this project yesterday and thought it was so good it was worth putting together a quick blog entry. As the screenshot to the left suggests, there is a big box, you draw the LaTeX symbol you wish to find in the box using your mouse, and hey presto it gives you a selection of possibilities,…

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