The Dorset Knob

Historypin

Knobby — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:11:27 +0000

Just come across Historypin which looks like an interesting new website.

It allows the upload of old photos of places which can be “pinned” to their correct location on a map of the UK. Working with Google Street View you can match it to a current snapshot of that location to see how things have changed.

An animated William Barnes reads his poem

Knobby — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:21:49 +0000

I came across this on YouTube. Jim Clark takes pictures of long dead poets and audio recordings of their poems and marries them together to give the impression of the poet reading his poem.

Here he presents Dorset’s very own William Barnes performing The Humstrum.

World Stinging Nettle Eating Championship 2010 Video

Knobby — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:51:42 +0000

Here is a video of the World Stinging Nettle Eating Championship 2010 at the Bottle Inn, Marshwood, near Bridport from Hot Under the Collar TV

A change of direction!

Knobby — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:46:38 +0000

Ok, so the idea of using The Dorset Knob website as a forum where Dorset folks could chat didn’t take off. We got very few genuine posts and lots of spam that had to be weeded out.

It’s time to move on. Here is the all new Dorset Knob website.

I’m not sure what it will turn out to be, it’s very much a suck it and see project at the moment. Please come back and take another look soon.