#via:blech (31 links)
- Farnsworth House™ shop.lego.com
- United Nations Headquarters shop.lego.com
- A-wing Starfighter™ shop.lego.com
- X-Wing Starfighter™ shop.lego.com
- Hugs and Kisses medium.com
<blockquote>"Again, money raised its head: to confront the unavoidable truth that you require financial stability to do what you want to do. And that to whine about that being unfair is perhaps childish and irresponsible because if you’re serious about your art, then you should be, well, serious about creating the conditions in which you can create your art.</blockquote>
- On Location with Foursquare dashes.com
A bit more about why I remain very optimistic about @foursquare, and what the company needs to do going forward: http://t.co/SOJo5g6Si6
- One Big Fluke › Introducing Depicted: Safe continuous deployment onebigfluke.com
<blockquote>Makes continuous deployment safe by comparing before and after webpage screenshots for each release. It shows when any visual, perceptual differences are found.</blockquote>
- Richard (K) Morgan » Blog Archive » Raise a Glass richardkmorgan.com
- BBC News - How to read London bbc.co.uk
What you need to navigate around [London] is not just a map but a map with the dimension of time attached
- In Which We're Up All Night - Home - This Recording thisrecording.com
- The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic theatlantic.com
Worth it. Overdue. Helps explain noticeable burn-out type feelings. "There are organizing principles for what is considered a "good" idea. These ideas are supposed to be the right size and shape. There is a default spreadsheet that we expect ideas to fit onto. But maybe it's time that changed."
- The Death of the Cyberflâneur - NYTimes.com nytimes.com
Frictionless sharing has the same drawback as “effortless poetry”: its final products are often intolerable. It’s one thing to find an interesting article and choose to share it with friends. It’s quite another to inundate your friends with everything that passes through your browser or your app, hoping that they will pick something interesting along the way.
- Dual citizenship: Dutchmen grounded | The Economist economist.com
I guess I might not be going for dual English/Dutch nationality after all, then.
- My dying friend found kindness to be the rule, not the exception | Henry Porter | Comment is free | The Observer guardian.co.uk
The health service is portrayed as an intractable managerial nightmare. We spend so much time deploring the waste and inefficiency that we often forget that at the heart of the whole unwieldy system is a routine compassion, which is simply magnificent. And even more remarkable is that we attempt to guarantee this consideration to every person in the country who needs care.
"For all its wit, "Hooligan"—written at a time of really horrible racial tension in Britain—had a serious purpose: to urge readers in 1982 to avoid moral panic and a rush to historically-illiterate judgement. Its lessons hold just as true today."
Took ages to get to this but was well worth the wait. Superb.
- Mammatus cloud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org
The caffs are the spaces of the everyday, of the ordinary, yet they distil extraordinary stories of immigration and ambition, faded hopes and fashions, of class and business; they embody the values of a different world in which corporations didn’t yet control consumption and places aimed at the working class could happily accommodate City boys and dustmen, gents and tramps. Yet if most of the caffs seem as busy as ever, how come they’re dying out?
- RFID Record Player | Flickr - Photo Sharing! flickr.com
Rather fine indeed.
Here's how to make sure other people can't tag you on Places.
- Tom Roper's Weblog: North doesn't matter roper.org.uk
The Legible London project began in 2003 as an initial study working with the central London boroughs and business fora, aiming not just to improve signs, but to offer far better guidance for walkers. The project was to run a prototype, a measurable trial to prove the concept. They set about developing a taxonomy of walkers, but when they had discovered sixty different types and were still counting they gave up, and instead measured walking activity along two axes, the walkers' knowledge of the area and their speed, defined on a continuum from strolling to striding.
- Why humans can't navigate out of a paper bag - life - 18 August 2009 - New Scientist newscientist.com
Makes me want to stop using Google Maps.
- Flexibits | Cameras flexibits.com
In addition to launching a specific application when you connect a camera, you can also have your images download automatically. Never again spend time launching the right app or quitting apps that you didn't want to launch.
"Wired, [Albert Read] suggests, may not really be a tech magazine at all. "It's a magazine about innovation and the future, and should not be narrowly confined to technology in people's minds," he says. "You read Wired if you see yourself as a forward thinker or an early adopter." I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out.
- CR Blog » Blog Archive » The Designers Republic Is Dead; Long Live The Designers Republic creativereview.co.uk
Designers Republic goes under. "I’ve never liked that agency model - it’s not where creativity lies. DR accidentally ended up there in order to service bigger clients. I’m not being ungrateful to the people who ran the business side at DR – it wasn’t their fault. I’m glad we did it - it took getting there to make me realise that it wasn’t where I wanted to be."
- Hublog: Getting a visitor's location (city) hublog.hubmed.org
Who knew that "Javascript, IP address-based lookup" had got so simple?
- Conditional classnames | paulhammond.org paulhammond.org
Technique for IE specific stylesheets: "<!--[if IE ]><body class="ie"><![endif]-->" Clever clever.