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Quick Links to Amusing Things, 31 March 2010

8-Bit NYC. This is why you open data, so that people can do very strange & awesome things with it.

Snow (1963). Trains, an English winter, and some experimental filmmaking. Very neat.

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Imperial Leftovers

The survival into the modern era of random bits of the colonial/imperial era has always interested me.

Bagpipes are also kind of cool. When outdoors.

Thus, The Bagpipes of Palestine from the BBC. Amazing what survives against long odds, isn’t it?

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Project Creep In Action

"The flying saucer originally started as a proposal for a raiseable platform."

Ladies, gentlemen, and the rest of you: The British Rail Flying Saucer (via Wikipedia).

Yes, really.

(hat tip to Corey for the URL).