Tilting at Windmills - The Life of Cervantes

Cervantes' novel Don Quixote is "the best book in the world". However the imagined chivalric adventures of Don Quixote are as nothing compared to the real-life adventures of the novel's author Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes was born in Spain. In his early twenties he moved to Rome to work in the house of a cardinal. He then enlisted as a Spanish soldier and was injured at the Battle of

Street View - Gold Edition

You can now explore Rome at night with this Bulgari - Roman Treasures tour of the eternal city. To be honest the website is little more than a very slick promotional campaign for Bulgari's products. However it does highlight the great leaps and bounds that have made in the last two years in creating fully interactive 'Street View' tours. Bulgari - Roman Treasures presents a number of 360

Map Quiz Time - Accents

Do you know your Brummie from your Scouse? Or your Geordie from your Cockney? You can find out with Expedia's Accent Map of the British Isles. In Expedia's quiz you are played a series of spoken phrases. Your job is to detect the accent and select where the speaker is from, from a choice of three locations on a Mapbox map. If you don't want to play the quiz then you can choose to explore the

Adult Coloring Maps - Part 3

Last summer the the UK's Ordnance Survey invented the concept of the coloring map. The Ordnance Survey had noticed the huge popularity of adult coloring books and realized that what the world was waiting for was adult coloring maps. They therefore released a series of black and white maps as free PDF files. The Ordnance Survey Blog created 11 maps which you can print out and then spend hours

WarGames - WINNER: NONE

In the 1980's movie WarGames a high school student hacks into a supercomputer and nearly starts a full scale global nuclear war. The computer is called the War Operation Plan Response and in the film NORAD have a huge wall-sized dashboard to interface with the computer. Alan Walker, Jeffrey Shaffer, Anya A’Hearn and Chris DeMartini have collaborated to recreate the War Operations Plan Response