Owls Count

I watched the BBC’s Frozen Planet recently and it reminded me just how good the BBC are at making such programmes. The seven episodes took the viewer on a tour of the polar regions. The team went to great lengths in the filming and the episodes showed some of the methods they used to film in such remote locations.

In the lab we now have OU Frozen Planet Poster on display.

A couple of related links:

• David Attenborough: Going to extremes – DA talks about the Frozen Planet filming and about the polar regions.
• Antarctic’s hidden world revealed – is about BEDMAP, which is the project mapping the rock bed of Antarctica.

Terry Pratchett is one of the best selling UK authors. During my teenage years his books were some of the few I read. Recently he announced that he is suffering from Alzheimer’s. Recently he pledged $1 million to the Alzheimer’s Research Trust.

In response to this pledge a group of fans have created the site Match It For Pratchett, which is looking for fans to pledge money to help match Terry Pratchett’s $1 million (£500,000) donation to Alzheimer’s Research.

I know that some in the orienteering world are also into hashing. Well it seems that the authorities in New Haven, Connecticut, did not like the flour trail that two hashers had put out.

This link from Schneier on Security, where there is discussion of this incident and other ‘terror scares’.