Simon Willison’s Weblog

2018 Central Park Squirrel Census in Datasette (via) The Squirrel Census project released their data! 3,000 squirrel observations in Central Park, each with fur color and latitude and longitude and behavioral observations. I love this data so much. I’ve loaded it into a Datasette running on Glitch.

# 16th October 2019, 6:01 pm / squirrels, datasette

Russian squirrel pack “kills dog” (via) “The little beasts are agitated because they have nothing to eat”.

# 12th December 2006, 1:59 pm / squirrels

xkcd: Nihilism. Zomg squirrels!

# 6th October 2006, 9:15 am / funny, nihilism, squirrels, xkcd

Photographing Squirrels—a photoset on Flickr. Real wild squirrels with real vintage cameras. Awesome.

# 30th May 2006, 11:13 am / flickr, squirrels

My Washington D.C. photos. Touristy photos. Includes squirrels... and ENIAC!

# 4th April 2005, 1:43 am / eniac, flickr, photos, squirrels

My photos of squirrels. I like squirrels, and I’ve started playing with Flickr.

# 30th August 2004, 4:29 pm / flickr, photos, squirrels

Neighborhood Hazard (or: Why the Cops Won’t Patrol Brice Street) (via) Entertaining story about a guy, his motorcycle and a psychotic squirrel. I like squirrels.

# 15th August 2004, 5:24 pm / funny, squirrels