2008-11-21
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Oasis of the Seas (via BBC NEWS | In Pictures | Day in pictures) - I’m hoping that the Big Picture does lots of photos of this so I can link to a bigger version there.
Sadly, it seems more likely to cover the insane opening ceremony of the Palm Atlantis Resort, featured in the BBC DIP with a dolphin and an actress.
2008-11-20
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Dubai and the UAE - The Big Picture - Boston.com
I should really log in as craneporn for this one.
2008-11-18
Reheated Outrage
Doing the rounds today: Rails commit 22af66c…:
Added Array#second through Array#tenth as aliases for Array#[1] through Array#[9] [DHH]
which prompts some commentary:
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jcnetdev about 9 hours ago
Really? Seriously?
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bdude about 6 hours ago
I must admit, I think this is a pretty unuseful change.
The thing I noticed is that the patch was applied in June, yet the commentary starts just nine hours ago (at the time of writing), nearly half a year later. This reminds me of something:
Puerile prank that left BBC executives on the ropes | Media Guardian
‘how did an incident that occurred 14 days ago and which no one appeared to have noticed for over a week, claim the scalp of one of the country’s highest profile presenters, leave the future of another hanging in the balance?’
Of course, the grandfather of all these delayed reactions is the furore over the Danish cartoons of Mohammed, which happened several months after their initial publication.
I suppose that this is just going to be one of those things that annoys me, but I have to get used to. Just like news stories about near-bankrupt airlines, things that cause debate (or offence) never go away now, but lurk amongst the infinity of the internet.
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2008-11-17
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24 hours in pictures | News | guardian.co.uk
“The sulphuric acid installation at Europe’s largest copper producer, Norddeutche Affinerie” by Oleg Popov. Mmm, pipes.
The Wired Past/Future
Phil Gyford has been uploading old Wired UK covers to Flickr today. Wired US, of course, has complete archives online, but the UK spinoff isn’t quite as well served. Thankfully, Yoz Grahame has all the UK-specific articles, and now Phil’s covers are preserved along with them.
However, it’s the US content that I’ve been looking at today. Here’s Steve Jobs, in Wired 4.02 (US):
When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.
There’s so much more back then I could quote from, but it’s probably best if I just let you go off and find things yourself.
Condé Nast are giving the idea of a UK version of Wired another go next year, but somehow I don’t think it’ll be as exciting as it was back in the nineties.
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