22 month ago
philgyford : A Low Impact Woodland Home - The houses are a bit cutesy for my liking, but working on them (or something similarly self-buildy) over the summer would be interesting. If, you know, one didn't have to work.
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plasticbag : Many of my American friends have no idea that the UK, Great Britain and England are different things. So I thought I'd link to this page on the Act of Union... - So first England and Scotland merge to become "Great Britain", and then later Great Britain merges with Ireland to become the "United Kingdom". Wales had been previously annexed in 1536...
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46 month ago
Rod Begbie : 2001 Election Map of the UK - Gradiated map of British political persuasion. Slightly flawed in that it ignores the nationalist parties in Scotland and Wales (Those big patches of Tory Blue in Scotland represent the SNP seats), but gorgeous nonetheless. [via] #
plasticbag : Awesome Flash electoral map of the UK demonstrating the relative party strengths by shade - Based upon the purple maps of the USA that followed the 2004 election. Very cool. Interestingly simply use of Flash too...
Simon Willison : 2001 Election Map of the UK - Inspired by the purple US one that did the rounds a while back.
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