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The Little People (#littleclaymen) of the Northern Quarter

On my way into work this morning, I kept coming across these little people in the Northern Quarter. I since found out that they’ve been put there by the Sykey Art Collective. I think they’re great!

The Twitter hashtag #littleclaymen is now trending in Manchester !

: Little People on shutter in Hilton Street

Little Person outside the milliners

Little people outside the ‘Hedonist’ window

A queue of little people on a shutter.

Wage slaves on Hilton Street

Two Little People in shop window

Little people in Stevenson Square, Manchester

Little person on bollard in Stevenson Square

More Little People on Hilton Street, Manchester

The Morning Commute through Stevenson Square

Little commuter in Stevenson Square

Little People in a “green and pleasant” land

New X8 bus service (Burnley to Manchester)

[Image credit: “DSCN3567” by Clive A Brown on Flickr]

The new bus times start on Monday 16th April 2012, the new timetables are on the Transdev website here.

X8 – http://www.lancashirebus.co.uk/times.jsp?routeID=240

X43 – http://www.lancashirebus.co.uk/times.jsp?routeID=90

Weekday Bus times:

To Manchester, leaving Edenfield (Rostrons Arms) at…
0632, 0735, 0956, 1256 and 1605

To Edenfield, leaving Manchester at…
1035, 1335, 1645, 1740 (X8)
2230 (X43 from Chorlton Street)

As well as this there are new Saturday services as well. this great news, I hope that Transdev sees the use of these services pick up so that the service can be maintained.

In case you really can’t live without Wikipedia….

As many people know Wikipedia is protesting about the US government’s proposed SOPA legislation. Consequently they’ve blacked out their home page (English language version). Whether you approve of this protest or not, you may find it difficult to do your homework, look up pointless facts or stalk celebrities without the wonders of Wikipedia.

Here’s a little workaround that gives you access to Wikipedia content….

As you can see, navigating to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page takes you to this “blacked out” page.

Wikipedia “Blackout”

If you really need content from Wikipedia, here’s how to get it from the google cache.

First go to http://www.google.com or http://www.google.co.uk and search for the content that you want. Instead of searching “the whole Internet”, specify that you only want to look for Wikipedia content.

For example to search for King Henry, type
site:en.wikipedia.org King Henry

Once you have the search results, hover over the space to the right of the search results and you’ll see a double arrow appear. This shows you a preview of the search results. Hover over this (step 1) and click the word “cached” (step 2) as shown in the image below.

Example of Search results with link to google cached content — Search results and link to cached content

After clicking on the “cached” link you can see the content that you’re looking for served to you from the google cache rather than the Wikipedia pages.

Happy Googling!