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05 Jul 2011
China, already home to seven of the world's longest bridges (including the longest at 102 miles which runs over land and water near Shanghai) has just opened the world's longest sea bridge linking the city of Qingdao with the suburb of Huangdao, spanning the wide blue waters of Jiaozhou Bay.
The massive structure is properly awesome.
(via The Telegraph)
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16 Feb 2011
Fantastic, in the real sense of the word.
(thanks Leah)
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22 Dec 2010
Thankfully more and more supermarkets seem to be adopting the 'single line' system at the check outs. Certainly the three supermarkets I use most often use it, and I always groan when I go in to one where you have to guess which will be the fastest line, and then end up being the slowest.
In this video "The Engineering Guy" explains why the single line system is the most efficient and why, in a multiple line system, you are not imagining it when you usually end up in a slow lane. Mathematically you are more likely to end up in a slow line.
(via Neatorama)
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18 Feb 2010
Pure pornography. If this doesn't give you a hard hat, or a damp foundation, you are dead inside. The power! The length! (the "long front"!) The deep plunging! The music...
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10 Nov 2009
... we decided to take a wander around the streets close to the new Lansdowne Road Stadium which is really beginning to take shape.
It's pretty hot, though it's wavy shape looks better from some angles than others. What's very noticeable is how close it is to some of the surrounding houses, in comparison to the old stadium which had a smaller footprint. Some of the small back-street cottages are literally only a couple of feet from it.
Then, while wandering down the back lanes in search of good views of it, we came across a small square where we now want to live. It's called Vavasour Square (it even sounds like a drag queen's address! Vavasour) and it's gorgeous. Deceptively large Georgian houses with small single story frontages around a small (long and narrow) well kept, mature but un-manicqured park. It's very charming and hidden away down a lane off Bath Avenue, and has a lovely feel to it. Kids with school-bags and an ould fella showing me the best views of the stadium. And it's genteel old-world charm is only enhanced, as is often the case, by the juxtaposition of the gleaming modernity of the new stadium that rises like a magestic glass tsunami over one end. Love it.
If anyone has oodles of money (because I assume it's a very sough-after address even if the houses aren't huge) and wants to make an old woman happy, buy me one.
Panti Bliss, Vavasour square... See! It even sounds right!
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31 Oct 2009
... (Oh don't lie! You are too), and as regular readers will know, I do love a bit of engineering and infrastructure, but really, who would want to spend their holiday on the world's biggest cruise ship? The Oasis Of the Sea, brand spanking new, has just left the Finnish port where it was built. It's certainly impressive. Sixteen decks high, one and a half times the size of the second biggest cruise ship, a park, a merry-go-round, twenty one swimming pools.... the list of 'biggness' goes on. You can see a BBC report HERE, and another with lots of shots of the interior as it neared completion HERE.
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