17 July 2003

Archaeological dig at Heathrow Terminal 5 building tells 8000 year story Many artefacts found on UK's largest dig. Including, no doubt, the remains of the teams that started working on T5 several hundred years ago. 3:37:12 PM     comments

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Birds and ringtones imitating each other In what must be an attempt to correct the recent tendency of birds to change their song in response to cities and mobile ringtones, the British Library is working with iTouch and Mobiletones to provide authentic bird and animal ringtones for Samsung handsets. Separately, the RSPB is working with Mobileavenue to provide birdsong ringtones for Nokias. The BL's tones are "real tones", the RSPB's are standard polyphonic. BBC: Birds hit the high notes in cities Birds imitate mobile ringtones - birds in Denmark have started imitating ringtones. The standard Nokia tone is the most popular. CNet: Birds sing a new tune in wireless era - "A few Starlings armed with a Nokia tune crowing on a crowded city block 'could bring a place like San Francisco to a stand still'" Mobile phones becoming sounds of love - "The electronic tweeting of mobile phones is so widespread that some Australian birds are mimicking the sound as part of their mating and territorial songs, bird experts says." BL: Ringtones go wild - British Library Sound Archive Wildlife Collection goes mobile Mobiletones: Get your Green Woodpecker yaffle call here - for Samsungs RSPB ringtones at Mobileavenue - for Nokias Telegraph: Nightingale rings in Berkeley Sq - "Not that the development is likely to please that born mimic, the starling. The birds have started to imitate mobile phone rings but now face the prospect of impersonating themselves." 10:33:52 AM     comments